Posted by
statesrights on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:00:22 PM
My experience at the Augusta Maine Caucus meeting last weekend was one that I will never forget. Some of we Ron Paul supporters there were passionate. Others were angry. Either way, our blood was up.
There was an eerie division in the room between Ron Paul supporters and those other republicans. The division spoke for itself. We appealed against the established rule, a foundation that needed some reform. They sat back comfortibly and smirked. Some attempted to lecture us on commitment. We stood side by side, excited, passionate, and united. All those who supported all those other candidates were but snails in shells.
Mit Romney's oldest son appeared with his son. My first reaction was...I've never sat this close to a multi-millionare. The other candidate speakers blubbered. I almost felt sorry for this bunch. The speaker for Ron Paul was the ONLY one who listed facts-exackly what and why things have been so bad under Clinton and Bush and exackly how and why Ron Paul would rise to the challenge.
Those of us who were fortunate enough to witness Ron Paul's Maine visit and to also participate in last weekend's Caucuses were left with with a very accurate portrayal of the soul of this national campaign for Ron Paul.
Like I have said to some of you in our brief conversations, I've never before been involved in a presidential campaign. In those elections leading to this my vote was nothing more than that of the lesser of two evils.
To sum up my current involvement, this is my first experience being excited about a candidate on the road to leading our country.
The reasons for this are reflected in every debate Rep. Ron Paul has been involved in. My passion is most accurately reflected in the feelings and voices of all those who I've had the pleasure to meet in this campaign.
Never before now was there ever such an urgent need in our country for a leader like Ron Paul. The mood of our campaign definitely reflects this! We are so aware that no other candidate but Ron Paul can save our country from another royal family dynasty. We will not loose the rule of father and son only to wear the bounds of a husband and wife.
The most obvious word to sum up Ron Paul's campaign here in Maine is emotion.
History remembers this same emotion only once or twice in all our country's past.
Was this how the Sons of Liberty Felt as they gathered one sleepless night in Boston. Was this how these patriots felt as they darkened the harbor with British tea?
Was this the emotion that inspired Thomas Paine to write Common Sense? In Ron Paul's message and our campaign for him, it appears that common sense is still an American virtue.
Was this the emotion that Jefferson expressed when writing, "...Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government."?
Was this the very same emotion that ignited the hearts of the colonists to fulfill Jefferson's Declaration?
And did this emotion propel the citizens of several states, eighty-five years later to withdraw from a government rather than be its slave?
Our causes differ from those of 1776 and 1861. For them there was no hope left to be found in the former system which they lived.
For us, however, there is hope yet. All who have heard Ron Paul's message share this hope. And for those of us that campaign to bring that message to the White House, we are willing to make that hope a reality.
Thank God we live in a country where we can help achieve this goal through demonstrations and ballots. As long as there are still people conscience of there freedom, freedom will live.
This is the emotion that fuels our campaign for Ron Paul.
I want to thank you all for this experience. Whatever may happen, I will never forget it. No matter what may happen, we may all look back and remember how we honored our Forefathers and their principals. Lest us never forget also that we stood for the rights of the people, peace for our nation, and the Constitution that appeals to these virtues. However far down the line, remember how we stood for Ron Paul.