Write-In Campaign, pledge to write-in and pledge to recruit

I have been suggesting that Ron Paul endorse and advocate a write-in campaign but my wife told me moments ago that Ron Paul once said he would support the nominee of the Republican Party and would not run against that person in any way.

I think that it is within the realm of feasibility for Ron Paul to get the election as a write-in if it were to start now and were organized in such a way that those who chose to participate had certain supports.

By that I mean appropriate Slim Jims devoted to the write-in campaign, a website, preferably the official Ron Paul site, but maybe a new site, on which a running count of pledges was kept so everyone in the world might see how many were determined and committed to cast a write-in vote for Ron Paul.

If you believe that Ron Paul’s ideas are meaningful enough to make it feasible to persuade an eligible voter to become devoted to Ron Paul being elected then you might consider making a pledge to a write-in drive and a pledge to recruit others up until the election. You see the two pledge process is necessary to ensure that the numbers continue to grow.

If we were to start with most who donated demonstrating a degree of commitment that would be about 100,000 to begin with. The idea would be for them to each sign up with the double pledge on the website. They would have about one month, March to reach one other person who learned about Ron Paul and shared the wish that he become our next president so that they were willing to join the double pledge campaign thus 200,000.

April the pledgers have all month to find one other. Simply ask a friend or relative or coworker and convince them just as you are convinced yourself. Not everyone you ask will be willing but still given the appeal of Ron Paul’s ideas by the end of the month there are 400,000 signed up.

In May these each set out to find one more each. Perhaps some focus on Ron Paul’s determination to restore the Constitutional limits on government by addressing Article 1 Section 8. By the end of May there would be 800,000 signed up.

In June each keeps looking for one other who perhaps wants to experience the abolition of the IRS and to know what it was like for citizens who lived before 1913 when there was no income tax. Many people don’t realize that. Point out the language in Article 1 Section 9 where a direct or capitation tax was forbidden and compare it with the language in the Sixteenth Amendment to see the power grab. Did you know that Lincoln tried to pass an income tax during the Civil War and it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court whose Chief Justice made it clear that he would find any such income tax in conflict with the Constitution. The Congress waited until he died and passed the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913 the next year after his death. Now 1,600,000 signers to the double pledge drive.

July would be a good month to remind everyone that the signers of the Declaration of Independence tried to abolish slavery but the representative from the slave states would not vote for independence until the offending passages were removed much to the consternation of Thomas Jefferson.
The Founders wanted citizens to be as free as possible but did not want the government to be as free as an individual but to be constrained by the Constitution to just have the powers granted to it in Article 1 Section 8. Having persuaded one more each the number of pledgers is up to 3,200,000.

In August those in the movement set out to each find one more who is dissatisfied with the choices offered. Maybe they heard that Obama said last night that you are your brother’s keeper and that you haven’t given enough yet! Ron Paul would free you from unchosen obligations to others but set you free to help whomever you choose. Number up to 6,400,000.

In September the pace quickens and the devoted pledgers each find another to join in half the time, thus 12,000,000 who also are strongly motivated and the numbers surge to 24,000,000.

In October the efforts of those in the movement can point to the growth in numbers which helps inspire others and in two weeks there are 48,000,000. By now with the election day in sight and the numbers of people watching this drive surge as they watch the counter on the website with more people interested in the outcome of the election the counter passes $$,000,000 with one week left before the election!

The hard work of those in the movement to reach others who are potential supporters, taxpayers, young people facing higher taxes and a falling dollar, home schoolers, seniors whose fixed income loses purchasing power as the Fed prints more counterfeit currency, military families who are among Ron Paul’s strongest supporters, advocates of limited government and individual freedom, gunowners, advocates of free market solutions, lovers of freedom, peace and prosperity, people who see the wisdom of the Founders in limiting the powers of the government, bears fruit as the write in campaign secures more votes for Ron Paul than for the other candidates on the ballot!

If Ron Paul’s solutions and ideas are as good as we know them to be it should be a simple matter for each of us to convince just one more every month until the election and persuade them to take the double pledge as we should now. Just one more each month would make it happen.

My wife has taught me that usually the issue is not either, or but both. This drive could be in addition to the Ron Paul March in Washington. I just think the double pledge write-in drive gives each of us a chance to be part of the Revolution and to do our own share to make it happen. Notice that those who begin now need only reach only ten or so others between now and election day. Each successive wave need only find nine, then eight, then seven, etcetera. So it gets easier as time goes by and you will have the website counter to show that the numbers are indeed growing, not of dollars but of those committed and pledged to write in Ron Paul’s name on the ballot in November.

I think the delegate approach is fraught with uncertainty and it is a mistake to think that we could really dupe the McCain supporters into choosing Ron Paul delegates. In my opinion the only real hope is a write-in campaign which started now with each of us devoting ourselves to recruiting ten others to the Ron Paul campaign between now and the election. It would take 100,000 of us who are willing to do what it takes to find others who will join in the effort themselves. Asking much but you evidently consider there is something worthwhile to you for Ron Paul to win. You must believe that there is something in it as well for anyone you might recruit to feel as you do.

As Ron Paul points out no Empire has ever survived the destruction of its currency. That is what is happening. Four cents in 1910 would have bought what it now costs a whole dollar to buy! How much longer can this society survive especially with the likes of those who might beat McCain and there plans to socialize everything. The fight for your freedom must be worth the effort. Are you willing to find freedom lovers who live among us?

Never put off for tomorrow what you can still do today. - Benjamin Franklin