Yep, that's right!  While Hillary, Obama, McCain, and the Mayor were fighting over who could pour the most honey over Florida to attract the most flies, er, votes,  Ron Paul was found where you usually might find him-with the people.   And when I say people I don't mean Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, or Oprah....I'm talking about the REAL people.  
Why did Ron Paul visit the state of Maine two days ago? Though Florida carries dozens more electoral votes than itty bitty po dunk Mainel he decided to visit here anyhow.  Why? No other reason except that he knew this was a good place to find and meet some American people. 
I had the greatest honor and pleasure to see him speak in the Maine State House's hall of flags, right under the big green faded bronze dome.   The crowd itself was a melting pot of young and old of every race and sex.  The sort of crowd that you might see when a message is good enough to bring different backgrounds together.  And boy did we cheer! 

Paul was spending his second day in Maine. On the 27th he did a speaking at the University of Maine and then visited his campaign headquarters in this state in Portland.   On Monday, he visited our humble and small Capital.
 
I don't now where in America you live tonight.  But I can't imagine there is another community in all the land that was more needing of his message than here in Augusta, Maine.   Thanks to a government gone crazy with taxing and spending, taxing and spending with hardly two pennies coming back to strengthen our city, Augusta is a picture perfect image of an American city worn tired.  Many of our heroes serving in Iraq, serving in a war that serves no purpose but a lost cause.  Many have perished, returning only to rest in the soil of their home.
Maine prays for peace. Maine prays for less goverment and more employment. Maine prays the same hopes and dreams of our forefathers and patriots.

Ron Paul brought his message and hope for America to shine on Maine.    I could almost feel the liberals and even the war-profiting republicans tremble in their offices. 

Before us, Ron Paul slammed the Patriot Act.  He promised to bring all our troops home to their families.  He promised to deflate the head and belly of a national government.  He promised that he is the only candidate that promises to bring back peace and prosperity to the American people. His plan- by making the government accountable to the US constitution. 
He shared his plan to help our country onto a course of positive change.  It was not the gushy formless stuff that the other candidates produce.  His promises were real, his commitment to achieve these goals are just his virtue. 
I got to shake his hand and tell him thank you.  I knew that without at least a half a million in my left hand that I would never be able to shake Hillary's or Obama's or Romney's right hand. 
I want to again thank Mr. Paul for visiting our small and desperate state.  He did not have to.  Not one report by the national media covered his trip here.  But to Mainers including myself...we will never forget his visit. 
God bless, Ron Paul, for he will never forget us. 

Hate has many heads yet wears no disguises.  It can be seen through past any so called good intention or white hood. Christians say that the devil's biggest trick was to prove there isn't a hell. Hate bears tricks of its own.
It tricks us into believing that it is an epidemic limited only to those characters from the film, Mississippi Burning. 
Most Americans feel comforted and assured that they are spotless of hate's curse and destruction.  Americans have been misled to believing that if they get rid of their Southern accents, or protest public displays of the Confederate flag, or help fabricate social myths about Southern heritage then they are null of hate and washed in peace and love. 
I write to the SPL this morning to protest any form of hate and ignorance with the understanding that the SPL shares this principal.
I was born and raised in Northeast Texas but now live in Maine. Unfortunately but not surprisingly my home state is less remembered for its history of being its own nation for nine years or that the first African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy was born in Texas. Instead it is more remembered for Jasper.

As you may learn through the course of this letter, I am a passionate student of American history.
I was a member of the North Texas brigade of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and am now a member of an SCV camp in Gettysburg, PA. This membership is upon the relation and honor of my great great grandfather, James K Polk Tims who served in Company D of the 37th Mississippi known as the Enterprise Tigers. He and his two brothers fought through the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns of 1864. The three were captured and sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago in cattle cars. James and his brother, John survived only by some miracle. Jackson Tims, my great great uncle did not.

The purpose of my letter this morning is to express duel disgust and sadness of two-forms of hate. They may seem very separate and on opposing lines, but hate is the great equalizer.
First of all, as a Christian who believes that we should, "Love thy neighbor as oursellves," and as an American who believes Thomas Jefferson's words, "All men are created equal,"  I denounce the hate and its fuel of ignorance that has guided countless acts of terrorism against African Americans by several groups, namely the Kue Klux Klan. Though they are not the vast empire they once were, their principals of evil continue to fester in one corner or another in every state.
I am outraged that groups like the KKK have long misused the endeared battleflag that the Confederate soldier proudly rallied behind through the campaigns of the War Between the States.
Not surprisingly the majority of the people that slander the Confederate battleflag by misusing it as a standard of racism and those who condem it actually know little (if anything) about the flag's true beginning. 
The Confederate battleflag was born in the autumn of 1861.  It's creator was General PGT Beauregard, the Confederate hero of Fort Sumter and Manassas. The first Confederate battleflags bore only twelve stars.  It was not until two months after the flag's creation that Kentucky, on November 20th, became the thirtheenth state to secede and be adopted into the Confederacy.  Only then was the thirtheenth star added. 
The lack of understanding, intellegence, and truth are the ultimate causes of hate and prejudice.  Too often, both the bigots who fly the flag and the bigots who condem it believe that the Confederate battleflag was the flag of the Southern Confederacy.  However, the battleflag was neither an offical or unoffical Confederate symbol.  Null of any depth of historical knowledge, the true national flag of the Confederacy that had switched designs three times during the Confederacy's existence would not be recognized by the misinformed.
General Beauregard created the Confederate battleflag to be used only by the Confederate Army and Navy. 

All that requires to know for a fact that the men and women who served under the Confederate battleflag for four years did not fight for slavery or for racial supremacy is for people to take some time and read the memoirs and accounts of those that did follow that flag.  Many of their accounts and autobiographies still exist.  They know better than anyone their own cause.  Why people wish to research a people's cause by not reading what those people had written on it beats me.

The Confederate battleflag stood at the center of every Southern unit from Texas to Virginia.  The young and old men in these units who were not only white but also African American, Native American, and immigrants wrote in thousands of letters and great memoirs that their cause was to form a new goverment fashioned by the ideas and principals that the U.S. had been formed in 1776.  Thousands of others who did not put much regard in politics fought only to keep the large lumbering Union armies from destroying their homes and their families.  For some it was a war to defend the right of secession and self-goverment, for others it was a fight to defend one's home.  For all, either was cause enough to follow the Confederate battleflag.  For none of them was the preservation of slavery included in their sacrifice.  When you review all the woe and sacrifice that the soldiers and civilians went through during that war, you will begin to understand that a cause such as slavery would and could not substain them.  Especily when slavery only concerned 6% of the population.  Especily considering that the average Southerner distrusted any rich property owners including slave owners.  To fight for their rights would have been unheard of, laughable. 
I challenge all to read the accounts and memoirs of those who first flew that flag.  It is so clear that the Confederate flag was virtually stolen and its true meaning manipulated.

Those segregationists then and those today do not fly the flag to, "preserve the legacy of the Confederacy and to keep its spirit alive." No, you do not hear rhetoric like that. The voices of the men and women who flew the Confederate flag in battle and on the home front during the War between the States contrast clearly from the voices of those who carry the flag as a vanguard of racism.
The hearts of those who fought under the Confederate battleflag and the hearts of those of us who preserve their heritage are not connected was those black hearts that misuse the battleflag for their passions motivated by ignorance.

The other form of hate and ignorance I protest is that inflicted upon by the broad front of special interest groups, lobbyists, politicians, the entertainment industry, the department of education, and a majority of historical biographers classed as revisionists. They perpetuate myths and stereotypes. Worst of all, these who claim to be sworn enemies of racism, are actually putty in the hands of racists. Rather than opposing and protesting racist movements' use of the Confederate flag, they agree,"There is no reason to question why the Klan flies the Confederate flag. After all, they are intelligent enough to know what their own flag stands for, right"? 
Ignorance is what keeps most Americans from equally defending the Confederate flag as they would any other symbol of sacrifice  in American history.
The ignorance of the majority of Americans concerning the Confederate flag's true meaning is actually a direct effect from all the groups I mentioned above.
The problem is, Americans are readily easy to believe and take as fact anything that a majority in power or high position tells them.

Instead of studying what hundreds of Confederate veterans and civilians wrote on why they created and followed their battleflag,  most people allow their prejudice to become fact. The media, politicians, and humans' rights groups settle for the story written by the Klan instead rather than the truth.
Can we not research, discover, and take the truth and declare independence of thought from the ignorance fed to us in grade school, on the news, and by Hollywood?
As much as I am against the Kue Klux Klan and all that they have done, have believed, and also their treatment of my ancestor's flag, I am also disgusted by the very public and political acts of hate against my ancestors and their flag. Both the NAACP and the Kue Klux Klan share a common ignorance and misrepresentation of history. Both distort and dishonor a period of my family's history that I am proud of.
Currently other western countries mock our own because of how little of our own history our students know.  This embarrassment is evident concerning a lack of knowledge of any period in our history but is most true regarding our lack of knowledge of the truth of what the Southern States fought to accomplish in 1861.  This is a slap in the face to those of us who are accepting and knowledgeable about our ancestors' role in the War between the States.  And for those of us who are just as proud of our Confederate veteran ancestors as we are of those who had served just as honorably in World War II.
There are thousands of members of the NAACP today. Between 1861 and 1865 there were near 90,000 documented free African Americans that had fought for the Southern States alongside white veterans. Because many of the records of Confederate enlistment were destroyed or lost, there may be thousands of other African Americans who served that were not documented. Although the U.S. Army did not allow African Americans to serve in its army until 1863, the Confederate army had enlisted African Americans since the first shot was fired. In fact, the first Union officer killed in battle was brought down by the bullet of an African American sharpshooter of the 1st North Carolina.
Although in the Northern army, African Americans were forced to serve in segregated units, a policy that didn't end until after W.W.II, there are hundreds of surviving accounts that testify that Confederate African American veterans served in the same ranks as the whites.
One testimony was from the Chief Inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission, Dr. Lewis Steiner. He wrote this account after viewing Confederate soldiers marching through his Northern community during the 1862 Maryland campaign. "Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in this number [Confederate troops]. The Negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc.....and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederate Army."
In September 1861, over a year and a half before African Americans were allowed to enlist in the Northern Armies, Frederick Douglas himself wrote in the fourth issue of his publication, Douglas' Monthly that, "there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army - as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops."
By slamming Confederate symbols, many members of advocate groups such as the NAACP are also slamming their own ancestors.

I shared the above quotes from history with you so that this letter would not be rebuked as one written by a so called, "neo-Confederate," or ,"revisionist," or even the term, "lost cause myth maker." I am neither a revisionist or a neo anything. I am a proud American citizen with family serving in Iraq. My respect and compassion for the Confederate flag is equal to that of my feelings towards the other symbols in American history including the Declaration of Independence pinned by Thomas Jefferson and the, "I have a Dream," speech by Martin Luther King JR.

The true myth makers and revisionists are those who choose to ignore and rewrite facts like those I mentioned above. They do this for many reasons including aims to solidify and perpetuate political gain, public recognition, or any other cause self interest in nature. These actions are never worth their goals. Those who rewrite the history of the origins of the Confederate battleflag or do not stand up to racist groups that use the flag, and do not link arms with groups that advocate heritage not hate, create nothing but division. They create division, ignorance, prejudice, and in one of its many forms, hate.

I expect and hope that leading human rights' organizations such as the NAACP will promote a tolerance towards those in our nation who choose to express their pride in a piece of history that is unique to their family or state. I expect and hope that these groups to not be limited in fighting only one form of hate but also against any other form it may become. For any form of hate is as destructive as the next.
Lastly, I hope and expect that the people will unite rather than divide. Unite with those who are active in preserving history to both educate the public on the true origins of the Confederate flag.  Let us also stand together to protest the flag's misuse by evil racist cells. 

If Hillary, Romney, McCain, or Obama were given a truth potion and then asked what their true platforms are, the'd all agree-
"I can't imagine a higher dream or goal than becoming president of the US.  I would be the luckiest person in the whole world!  I will lead many, I will be remembered by many, I will truly set my mark on this world.  I will be in such an important position of power. I will be invisible. It is my destiny." 
These candidates are all about me, me, me.  They are running for their destiny, not America's.  Do you think that any of them living at the White Mansion on 1600 Penn Ave will labor every day for the millions of Americans with no claim to fame and hold no more influence than one vote?  For these people, the presidency is a prize, an opportunity for greatness. 

I honestly pity the naive fool who believes that any of these republicans or democrats want to pursue any agenda that would not reflect upon their greatness. 

Just recently, all the candidates except for Ron Paul have stated to the press that they do not feel that the Confederate flag has any place on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse.  They said this because they are counting on, hoping for, relying on South Carolina voters to be ignorant of their own history.  Instead of telling South Carolina the truth of their heritage, that the flag did not stand for slavery and that the flag was a symbol of independence and a revolution that many South Carolinians fought and died for, the candidates milk politically correct ignorance and stereotypes as a platform.  
Those candidates use the historically incorrect racial myth surrounding the flag to create another issue of race and to divide the votes by race to secure their place on the side with the greatest influence.   Such is the manipulation of the media over the candidates and the candidates over the media and both the media and the candidates over us.

Both the republican and democrat candidates are fighting over power and prestige. 
If Ron Paul is not nominated by any party I will of course boycott the election.  Though Paul is as human as the others, he is the only one with a plan, the only one with the balls of reform, the only one politically incorrect enough to champion the interests of the people rather than the focusing on how awesome being president will look on his resume. 
We have owed the nominations and elections of corrupted promise breakers to the billions of dollars they used to manipulate their messages and also to the billion dollar media cooperations that skillfully picked which candidates to cover. 
I beg of America to not allow the self interests of the media and what favors are shared at the top to decide our vote this year.  I pray that America will not allow the self interests of candidates with millions in their pockets and stars in their eyes fool us for one-second. 

We need to shut those people up and let our voice be the only voice heard.  Who else but me is sick of hearing the candidates in their unending sinking performances disguised as promises. 

The American people needs pump their fists and make the administration and the government slave tirelessly for our interests for once. 
The only way Ron Paul won't win the nomination is if the people let their votes be decided by certain, select, and elite candidates that are chosen gracefully by the media for our viewing pleasure regardless whether they are as qualified as the snubbed candidates or not. 

All I ask of my fellow Americans this time around is to vote for the candidate that offers the most change to the table and not to be fooled by the Hollywood performances of others. 

I mean HOW MANY TIMES have we heard these same lines, promises, and bull in the past?  If voting for candidates that are most popular with the media and their party has never brought reform, promises kept, or changes in the past, why should we go that way again?? 
America is suffering one crises after another on every major issue, so are we prepared to vote the easiest and most predictable way as we've always done, that never brought any results?  Or can we instead bring a man like Ron Paul to center stage by our power alone, without that of money or the media.  Can we actually put a man in office who will actually bring real change to a country so long without it? 
LIBERTY AMERICA, USE IT.  FORGET THE POLLS, FORGET THOSE CANDIDATES TRYING TO FOOL YOU TO ASSURE THEIR OWN POWER. FORGET EVERYTHING BUT YOUR LIBERTY! Research Ron Paul, find out how you can help, spread the word.  DEMAND THAT YOU AND NO ONE ELSE WILL BE HEARD!

i got a comment on my second Ron Paul blog post from a fell named Karmel Fudge.  Rather than reminding me of something Hershey like, your user name reminds me of homo sexuality. Don't ask. 
Also I am still trying to figure out what hominem attacks means.  It sounds like a Bushism, another shock and awe!  (You should have included an aka, friend).

I do agree with your last point.  Ron Paul is nothing like the other Republicans. THANK GOD. 
It just beats me why in the hell most of the Republicans in this race are not making sure that they seem as un-Bush like as a spelling bee.   Can they not hear the millions of Americans screaming for, demanding, appealing for CHANGE???  What exackly does McCain and the other goons imagine what we mean by change?  If they figure out that we want change from every single thing that Bush has done to this country (and other countries) in these past eight years, then they may have a chance (if they heed it). 
Mr. Fudge,  if you had more intellegence in your brain you would have also included the Demorats in your like-Bush charge.  Yes, I said it. 
The only difference between Obama/Clinton and Bush is that the former two are pro killing baby American citizens while Bush is for killing Iriaqi citizens.  Pro-Choice and Shock and Awe have something in common-death.  Except on that issue, I have seen or heard nothing radicaly different between those dems and our president.  In fact, search and search as I may, neither Democrat candidate has any plan at all about pulling out of Iraq.  WTF do they want to do during their four years in office?  Obama and HIllary seem more concerned with how they look in front of the camara and crowds, which catch phraises are funnier/emotional/meaningful, and what black celeberty to hoot for them next. 
America is in a crises.  All our freedoms are in jeporardy, our whole southern border is bending under the force of a shameless invasion, a thousand dead troops every year, taxes are rising, the American dollar is loosing,  the middle class citizen is history...and the best Clinton can do is conger up some tears in a bakery?? The best Obama can do is make sure we forget that his middle name is Hussein?  COME ON!!!  Is this Oprah's America? Is this McCain's America? 
Who honestly believes that any of these show stars can bring strength and reform to this country?  Don't be so blinded by their coverage that you cannot give our country the gift of an honest and worthy vote. 
The media, Clinton, Obama, McCain, Romney, and the Mayor can do their billion dollar tangos every night at 6pm, but I will bring the message to the roots, to the people, best little me can. 

I am sick of people defending Obama or McCain or Hillary....none of those people give a damn about you or me.  The most important thing in their lives is their faces, their white teeth, their proud smiles, their starry eyes.   They play to the people as if we were dolls.   If we were the democracy that we were born to be over two hundred forty years ago, the might of the people would make the candidate and our goverment quever and submit to our EVERY need.  The first black president, the first woman president, the mayor of 9/11 WILL ANY OF THESE TITLES BRING OUR TROOPS HOME, RESTORE THE MIDDLE CLASS, PROTECT THE SECOND ADMN,  BRING HEALTH CARE TO ALL THE ELDERLY OR BULK UP OUR FREEDOM AND PRIVACY RIGHTS?
Ron Paul's message is clear.  He has a plan.  He is radical.  He not only says change but he has every solution to bring it.   His mission is FOR America.   We need to give him a chance.  For if we dally this next election off to the biggest celebrity candidate with the softest skin and the most convinsing SCRIPT, then we will be no better off than we were in 2000.
We will be no better off than we were before 1776.
INDEPENDENCE, declare it...make it!  Ron Paul for president.

Friends bear with me cause I reckon I have the flu!  Well, its nothing to cry over in a bakery over, I'll live!

First off, thank you to those who left comments on my first blog post yesterday.  Ron Paul is defently the only one with enough spine to throw some tea overboard.  Ron Paul is the only one with a prayer to re-declare our independence from the tyranny, lies, and injustice brought not by King George 232 years ago but by President George these past eight years.   Yes, he is snubbed from the majority of prime time debates and the media gives us only the most limited glimpses into his agenda.   However, isn't it time that American citizens take leadership of their own and stop letting the media choose which candidates will win the election based on their choises to air the most?
Seriously, are Americans that lazy?  If we the people decide this year to declare our independence from the influence of a biased media then I am confident that we will carry a candidate of our own that shall declare independence from eight years of hell. 
The media's agenda for covering only certain candidates more than others clearly does not reflect the angedas of the voters.  So why then do we allow popular media to help us decide on issues that we the people rather than the media giants live with day to day?
I am afraid the answer to this is clear-the easiest way to decide who the vote for is to turn on CNN or FOX.   And I know this is true.  If our Forefathers ever imagined that in the future our decisions would be based on which candidate had the highest poll ratings or got the most attention from a mult-million dollar media cooperation they would have admitted that their revolution was in vain!
Now someone will surely raise this question, "How can we vote any other way but for the candidates that we know the most thanks to media coverage"?   Well, if somebody like Hitler was as popular with the media as Clinton or Obama, would you still vote for him?  (Don't answer that.)
Come on people, I am a lazy guy myself.  It didn't take a lot of work to really get to know Ron Paul and his mission.   In fact, I believe that if every American, Republican or Democrat took the time to visit www.ronpaul2008.com that Mr. Paul would win the election in a landslide. 

Lets make this election different.  Lets debunk and cast our vote away from the multi-million dollar media and the multi-milion dollar beautiful candidates that they all but elected.  They report and we decide, ha! We will decide based on our conscience rather than what they report for once. 
Take back your vote, America.  Take back your right, America.  Take back America, America!

For my first post, I would like to introduce to you the first candidate I have EVER been excited about since I first registered to vote almost ten years ago.   I think it is fitting that I start off with letting you see what I believe and what I hope for.  By showing you which candidate I stand behind and why, you may better understand me, an American citizen, and all my future posts on out!

Ron Paul doesn't cry under pressure or to trick the polls in a donut bakery.
Ron Paul does not hand out the word change for a cent a piece.
Ron Paul does not believe in invading other countries.
Ron Paul does not have millions to buy your vote.

On the invasion and destruction and on bringing OUR TROOPS HOME, Ron Paul is....

The war in Iraq was sold to us with false information. The area is more dangerous now than when we entered it. We destroyed a regime hated by our direct enemies, the jihadists, and created thousands of new recruits for them. This war has cost more than 3,000 American lives, thousands of seriously wounded, and hundreds of billions of dollars. We must have new leadership in the White House to ensure this never happens again.

Both Jefferson and Washington warned us about entangling ourselves in the affairs of other nations. Today, we have troops in 130 countries. We are spread so thin that we have too few troops defending America.

Under no circumstances should the U.S. again go to war as the result of a resolution that comes from an unelected, foreign body, such as the United Nations.

Too often we give foreign aid and intervene on behalf of governments that are despised. Then, we become despised. Too often we have supported those who turn on us, like the Kosovars who aid Islamic terrorists, or the Afghan jihadists themselves, and their friend Osama bin Laden. We armed and trained them, and now we’re paying the price.

On Illegal Immigration Ron Paul is...

Physically secure our borders and coastlines. We must do whatever it takes to control entry into our country before we undertake complicated immigration reform proposals.

Enforce visa rules.  Immigration officials must track visa holders and deport anyone who overstays their visa or otherwise violates U.S. law.  This is especially important when we recall that a number of 9/11 terrorists had expired visas.

No amnesty.  Estimates suggest that 10 to 20 million people are in our country illegally. That’s a lot of people to reward for breaking our laws.

No welfare for illegal aliens.  Americans have welcomed immigrants who seek opportunity, work hard, and play by the rules.  But taxpayers should not pay for illegal immigrants who use hospitals, clinics, schools, roads, and social services.

On LIBERTY & Privacy, Ron Paul is...

The biggest threat to your privacy is the government. We must drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data regarding citizens’ personal matters.

We must stop the move toward a national ID card system. All states are preparing to issue new driver’s licenses embedded with “standard identifier” data — a national ID. A national ID with new tracking technologies means we’re heading into an Orwellian world of no privacy. I voted against the Real ID Act in March of 2005.

On protecting the Second Amendment Ron Paul is...

I share our Founders’ belief that in a free society each citizen must have the right to keep and bear arms. They ratified the Second Amendment knowing that this right is the guardian of every other right, and they all would be horrified by the proliferation of unconstitutional legislation that prevents law-abiding Americans from exercising this right.

NOBODY asked me to support Ron Paul through this blog or in any other way.  I do this as a duty of an American citizen appealing to other American citizens to declare TRUE CHANGE in the next election. 

AMERICA, DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OTHER CANDIDATES USE TO SILENCE RON PAUL WHILE DROWNING YOU IN THIER STAGE BUZZ.  America, cast your eyes from Iowa and NH and carry Ron Paul in the next forty-eight primarys and again on election day. 

Before letting my opinions and my passionate appeals decide you, visit www.ronpaul2008.com and see more for yourself. 
God bless America, God bless our liberty, and God bless our rights!  I know of only one candidate who will protect all three.