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georgiaboy
04-22-2008, 11:02 AM
GOP Establishment, we know you read these boards.
We know you're monitoring our activity.
We now know you're doing everything you can to get John McCain the GOP nomination, up and down the party.

My question for you is "Why?"

Most of you at the local level have no financial or other vested interest in supporting the continuation of big government.

Most of you at the local level desire to see conservative principles enacted in our country.

Most of you at the local level have an intelligent mind and an intact conscience.

Most of you at the local level did not support John McCain as your first, second, or third choice.

So why are you following the party leadership's push for John McCain? Why are you buying in to the re-making of John McCain to be a conservative, when he is not and never has been?

I assume your responses would be:
1. national primary results
2. loyalty to the party leadership and instruction

To which I would simply respond that
1. national primary results picked a conservative over John McCain, it's just that the voting was split among multiple candidates, and
2. loyalty of party leadership over party principle will drive you further and further from principle and the policies you wish to see enacted, not closer and closer.

Have you paused to really, seriously consider the life, person, and statesman that is Ron Paul? Have you seen his record? Have you sought to understand his policies, his principles, his vision for America? It's not too late to do so.

I beg you to consider the implications of your 'winning the game' of getting John McCain the nomination. Of course you should be able to win this game. You've been at it for much longer than us, you hold all the positions of leadership, and you know how to use the rules in your favor, and you can count on our ignorance and naivete to allow you to bend the rules when necessary to accomplish your goals. Hurray for you.

You must, however, understand that in winning this game of yours you will bear the burden of your decisions and actions, and the consequences reaped from your display of power. For the sake of your loved ones, your country, us your fellow citizens, and the generations to come, you alone must bear this responsibility.

You may win the game, but just consider what it is at the same time that you're losing. You will lose, in varying amounts, your principles, your freedoms, your money, your property, and your rights. More importantly, you'll lose any hope of seeing the policies of small government, life, and individual responsibility implemented. Things you've been fighting for for decades, swept away.

For many of us Ron Paul supporters, by winning your game and effectively shutting us out, you are telling us that principles no longer matter to the GOP, that our views are not welcome, that our conservative candidate is not worthy to wear the republican label.

Your presumptive and possibly eventual nominee, John McCain, will not win the general election, despite your best efforts. He will not win.

If given the opportunity and your support, Ron Paul would win the general election. Ron Paul would win.

In the end, though, understand that winning the election is only a small part of what's at stake. The future direction of the country, of the Republican party, of conservatism and the preservation of conservative principles, these are all at stake. Our constitutional republic is at stake.

You have the power and skill to win your game, but you also have the power and skill to switch tracks. You can make Ron Paul the nominee, you can make him shine to the public, you can bring the revolution to fruition. Do you have the heart?

I pray for your hearts to be rekindled toward making the wise and right choice and action, now and leading up to the national convention and on through the general election. Make the wise choice.

georgiaboy

joemiller
04-22-2008, 12:08 PM
Why would you assume grass-root Republicans are simply following the national primary results or are particularly loyal to the party leadership and instructions because they don't support Ron Paul?

There are a lot of real policy differences between Ron Paul and traditional grass-root Republican converatism that could and probably does account for their lack of political support.

joe