From: Barclay <republic01@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Subject: [ronpaul-1813] Open Letter to all RNC Delegates
To:
ronpaul-1813@meetup.comHope and Change
We’ve heard a lot about these hot buttons this campaign. Apparently, somebody did a survey or two and found that’s what Americans want.
Obama has been pushing them for all they’re worth. McCain, too, has gotten on the Hope and Change bandwagon, although mainly as an attack on Obama.
Hope and Change. I can’t speak for everyone, but what I hope for is for my country to return to the greatness it once enjoyed, which, I believe nearly everyone will agree, would be a remarkable change.
Obama has been accused of vagueness in expressing his goals, but as such he is being very specific. He wants to change the occupant of the Oval Office from George Bush to himself, and he hopes that becomes a reality.
McCain wants to change the war in Iraq to the war in Iran, and maybe in Russia, with the necessary massive deficit spending and attendant inflation, and he hopes to be the one to pull the trigger.
Where is the direct confront of the fact that a continuing, unchanging pattern of deficit spending debases our dollar, creates inflation and bankrupts our nation, to say nothing of creating broke Americans. Deficit spending, is of course, spending money you don’t have and creating it out of thin air, hence devaluing existing dollars and by definition creating inflation.
Where is the outrage of the assaults on habeas corpus, restrictions on the rights and freedoms of Americans with the so-called Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the FISA Amendments?
Which of them has decried the Bush Administrations complete neglect of illegal immigration, and the embrace of open borders with Canada and Mexico, the Amero, and in fact the elimination of America as we know it with the North American Union?
Sorry Barack, sorry John. McBama offers no change, and very little hope.
But the candidate in the spotlight today is John McCain.
Global Warming is rejected by most conservatives, but not John McCain who apparently is willing to sell out for the centrist Democratic vote.
McCain’s sorry record on the Second Amendment includes the fact that he received “F minus” scores from the Gun Owners of America in both 2004 and 2006 according to their web site.
McCain was a major part of the immigration problem, championing the disastrous Immigration Reform legislation so repugnant to conservatives.
His McCain-Feingold Act put additional strains on political Freedom of Speech.
His London fundraiser on March 20 of this year should be thoroughly investigated by the FEC to determine whether he received money from foreigners. Why a foreign fundraiser?
The Republican National Convention is confronted with a candidate who bears little resemblance to a conservative, a problem if the delegate is himself or herself a true conservative.
What to do?
It turns out that there is a choice.
Congressman Ron Paul, who is courageously holding his own alternate convention across town to a message in tune with Reagan, Goldwater and Robert Taft, is that choice.
Congressman Paul wants to go back as far as the Roosevelt Administration and undo the ills instituted and ballooned since. For good measure, he would go back to the Wilson Administration and undo those as well.
Of course he would withdraw the troops from Iraq in a sensible and militarily sound disengagement. He was in the Air Force for five years as a flight surgeon.
He would catch Bin Laden, because he actually wants to, and he’d make quick work of it.
He would do what was possible to downsize the federal government as permitted by Congressional cooperation. Reagan tried to complete eliminate the federal Department of Education. Unfortunately for our students’ reading levels, he failed.
Ron Paul’s success would allow further relief of the income tax burden on Americans. If you good conservatives will recall, the progressive income tax concept was first pushed widely by Karl Marx.
In foreign policy, his guide would be George Washington. “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” A patriot who puts America first, Congressman Paul rejects the neocon attempts to isolate us from the rest of the world by conflict initiating aggression.
Here is a conservative, the only one currently on the Presidential horizon. He could be nominated. You know how.
You know your heart. Please vote it. You are the delegates. The choice is you
