Ron Paul Supporter Takes Out "Wake Up Call" Full-Page Ad in the USA Today
Lepard then invested approximately $85,000 of his own money to bring a message to the American people, which he says is this: "Ron Paul is the best hope America has to restore the Constitution and get our country back on track."
The ad is called "An Open Letter to the American People" and reads as if it is a letter written by the Founding Fathers in which they chastise today's "we the people" for not making their government uphold their original vision or even adhere to the Constitution. Issues including entangling foreign alliances, government corruption, excessive taxation, and preserving national sovereignty are brought up and then given the solution that Ron Paul will implement as President.
Lepard, who is married and the father of three, says that he is is deeply troubled by the prevailing pre-emptive war paradigm and as what he views as the decimation of civil liberties and the U.S. Constitution, has followed Ron Paul's political career for over 20 years.
Called by his vociferously loyal supporters "the Champion of the Constitution"--and called "downright scary" by those who don't side with his views--Paul is a 10-term Republican Congressman from the 14th District of Texas. His campaign has begun to utterly shock media pundits with its tenacious success, including grassroots efforts netting the campaign $4.2 million in one 24-hour period on November 5th.
"Over the years, I learned to admire both his positions and his integrity...This ad is my way of throwing a stone -- very hard and very well-aimed -- at the forehead of overbearing government. We'll see if it hits the target," says Lepard of his ad.
Although he is running as a Republican, Paul's biggest political constituency is the Libertarian Party. However, he is also receiving very staunch support from people who, like Lepard, are just fed up with the Big Government and all its intrusions from both of the major parties, and he has not shied away from taking anti-Libertarian views on certain issues, such as with his insistence that illegal immigrants should be rounded up and deported and our borders strictly patrolled.
No media pundit or political analyst expects Paul to win the Republican nomination, and neither do many of his supporters. However, they see his very unexpected level of success as a the light of hope that he could either pull a monumental upset or have a serious chance of winning the Oval Office in 2012.
His supporters are exceptionally impressed by the fact that his Congressional voting record squares entirely with his professed views and his ideas of what he would try to do as President, as well as the fact that his record is so clean that the media can't find anything scandalous to suggest or "dig up" about him.
Furthermore, his supporters like what they call his "radical realism". He once voted in favor of government negations on prescription drugs purchased by and through Medicare-however, he later described his vote as the choice of the lesser of two evils, and his real conviction is that the government has no business buying drugs or providing health insurance in the first place.
Paul has received support from moderate Democrats because he is in favor of immediately beginning the American pull-out of troops from Iraq. However, he points out that there is nothing else about the Democratic agenda that he supports, and he is insistent that what he calls the "welfare state" that interferes with the free market that most Democrats covet needs to be done away with.
Paul has also strongly criticized the Republicans for permitting civil right infringement and turning against the Party's tradition of being the anti-war party to become the party of imperialistic nation building.
Paul's critics say that his views are just too unrealistic and out of touch with modern times.
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Post a CommentAre we Americans so arrogant as to think that we are immune to the passions that have given rise to tyranny and despotism elswhere? Wake up, people! We are like the proverbial frog in the pot, oblivious to the slowly rising teperature of the water.
You may not yet have felt the pain of loss for your freedoms. You wore your seatbelt or your motorcycle helmet anyway. You bought that water-saving toilet or that compact flourescent light bulb to save money or the environment, not because there are no longer five-gallon flush or incandescent alternatives. Hopefully you are not a biggot, so "civil rights" legislation that replaces your freedom of associastion isn't much of a burden either. But what happens when they come for something you really care about?
What if they outlaw guns, gambling, homeschooling, herbal remedies, unpasturized milk, real Christmas trees, contact sports, double cheeseburgers or whatever? You need to think about the answers because they are already coming.
I agree, Stan. In addition, while I never backed going into Iraq, now that we are there we need to secure a victory, and quit being defeatist. Paul is a defeatist on the war effort. Other than those two (large) flaws, he's right about everything.
Good article. I find Ron Paul to be a breath of fresh air with most of his views. The one tragic flaw in his program is a clear stand against a woman's right to choose; this is completely inconsistent with the rest of his platform.
Thanks for all the childish "1"-stars, Musall. Pimp my bonus, jackass.
Wow...didn't know I had been here already...but on to Ron Paul....he is the only man from the Repub side with honor and for that I respect him. I do not support his positions (except on the war) but would add that it is a testament to the hypocrisy of the repub electorate that a man with honor and some good ideas is so low in the polls..
Good point, Aaron. However, I heard a Catholic woman the same day as I wrote the piece call Ron Paul "downright scary". And she is not the first.
To those who criticize my reporting that Paul would like illegal immigrants rounded up and deported: IF they won't comply with going through the process of making themselves legal, he wants them removed from the nation. Period. He does not believe that illegal immigrants deserve protection or amnesty.
Oh, puleeze, Terry. Such Regressive Leftist drivel. "Fascism". HAHAHA! Hey, you forgot to slip in the word "Nazi" and you forgot to invoke the mighty supernatural demon "BUSH!"
Whew! I knew this piece would get attention! And I see the Jeff Musall Leftwingnut Goonies came on by! Yay! Pimp my bonus, boys!
www.latinoronpaul.com (AXJ) represents the feelings of latinos in the USA that believe all residents must be documented. They work, pay taxes, respect the law, etc. Latinos and Blacks must join forces behind AXJ and Dr. Ron Paul. www.latinoronpaul.com Great post in USA today and we should all do the same in the Spanish media. Perhpas they will be more open to Dr. Ron Paul's stance on immigration.