Must Read Message from Ron: In to Win!

My examples are not crackpot. Athletics: Any coach will tell you that attitude is important. There have been scientific studies showing this - and I'm not talking about fans of the Giants, nor of Dr. Paul. Fans have no real participation in the game and we are not Dr. Paul's cheerleaders. We are actively participating in the game with our time, talents and treasure. That's what a grassroots movement is all about.

In Science, I will simply share a quote with you:

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.– Peter Borden

1776 happened because there were men of principle who made it happen. I'm not saying that those people controlled all the circumstances. I am saying that, because they didn't give up, they were able to take advantage of the opportunities which came their way. Most of America didn't support the war and felt that the revolutionary movement was made up of dangerous radicals. That fact makes George Washington's victory all the more amazing - a victory which would not have occurred had General Washington become demoralized, given up and gone home.

Your contention that we should be demoralized - how is that gonna help? Should we stop supporting Dr. Paul and lend our support to someone who has a "real" chance of winning? Will we be less demoralized if we do that? Aren't you asking everybody here to return to the status quo, vote for the lesser of two evils, return to our apathy and let those who "know better" handle the big decisions? If it truly doesn't matter, and we're doomed to go down in flames anyway, please just go away and leave us to crash and burn. Unlike yourself, it will not be said of us that we sat back and did nothing.

You are a prophet, sir, since you are absolutely sure that no opportunities will present themselves to Dr. Paul. I bow to your omniscience.

You see change as something that happens when a majority of people agree on something. This is "cart before the horse" thinking. In every revolution, there's one man with a vision! One man with an idea and a vehicle to express that idea can have a great influence and affect much change, either good change, like George Washington, Patrick Henry or Thomas Jefferson, or bad change, like Hitler, Marx or Napoleon. But first, somebody must have that idea and be willing to promote it.

You guarantee that Ron Paul supporters "are not going to bring about real change"? Pay up! Real change has already occurred in the many apathetic people who have awakened to the message of liberty. Change has occurred in the fact that, for the first time in many years, people have a real choice. There will also be real change if we lose. You'd better bet that the government will move heaven and earth to get control of the internet so that nothing like the Ron Paul movement will ever happen again.

With an attitude like yours, why did you ever become a Ron Paul supporter in the first place? It was said from the very beginning that he had no chance of winning and not by a few! What is the difference between then and now? We haven't even gone through the lion's share of the primaries yet and you're "giving up". I truly believe that you are not, nor ever were a Ron Paul supporter.

Your efforts to convince us are useless - I suggest you practice what you preach, become demoralized and give up on convincing anyone in this forum how hopeless the situation is for Dr. Paul. If the only thing that matters to you is how things look right now, go support Barak Obama. When Hillary wins the next big primary, you can switch allegiance and support her. By all means, don't support a Republican - everybody knows that they have no chance in this election.

As for myself and many others in and out of this forum: you will never demoralize us, nor will you convince us to support anyone but Dr. Paul. we've been looking for someone like him for far too long to give up now or ever, no matter what happens.

It is not a matter of living in a fantasy world. It is a matter of correct principle.

Take athletes. All else being equal, if they go into a game believing that they have lost, then they most likely will lose.
Take science. An established theory is never overturned by those who accept that theory as fact. Those who challenge accepted theories are ridiculed and ostracized, labeled as crackpots. Later, when their theory is accepted by the mainstream, they are haled as great visionaries.
Take war. Wars are won and lost by whatever side has a greater will to see it through. When we fought Vietnam, we, a mighty superpower with vast technological and financial power lost to a backwards collectivist government who got all their supplies from the outside, because we lost the will to fight. Vietnam lost every battle that we fought with them - who would have bet that they would have won the war?

You claim that 1776 was a unique time in history, and so it was. But unique times don't just happen. They are made by people with the will to see things through in the face of certain defeat. You don't have the will to see it through, win or lose - that's ok. However, I think you do a great injustice to members of this forum through your demoralizing rhetoric. You can't see into the future - you don't know if an opportunity will present itself that Dr. Paul could take advantage of - an opportunity which would pass us by if we gave up.

Your prophesy is self-fulfilling. If you demoralize enough people, they will give up. They will no longer support Dr. Paul with time and money. When that happens, fewer people hear about Dr. Paul and his great message. Dr. Paul falls farther and farther behind in the primaries. Eventually Dr. Paul lacks the support and money to continue and drops out of the race. The convention no longer is a brokered convention - we're back to politics as usual. Your attitude would condemn Dr Paul in particular and the entire movement in general to the same place in history as the Goldwater movement of 1964.

All great changes are brought about by those who have the will to see it through in the face of the established order. All great changes are brought about by people willing to lose their reputation, their treasure, even their lives in an effort to bring about that change. No, Ron Paul supporters do not live in a fantasy world! They do what they must if real change is to be affected.

Dear Mr. Stephanopoulos,

The majority of people in this country (and in England) had the same attitude, said all the same things and used the same rhetoric about the revolutionary war in general and George Washington in particular. Most of the time, the English generals thought so little of General Washington that they didn't even bother to chase after him when he retreated. When Congress paid the troops (which wasn't very often) they did so with fiat currency so inflated that it was almost worthless. Few people really cared about the war unless it was in their own back yard. General Washington was plagued with desertion and betrayal. Few were the times when the strength of his army was even close to the strength of the English Redcoats - and yet, he won. HE WON!

He won because he believed in this country, in the rightness of his cause and, most importantly, because HE NEVER GAVE UP! While it may be true that Dr. Paul may lose, it was equally true, and more so, of George Washington. Don't wimp out - fight to the end! Fight, not because victory is assured, but because victory is NOT assured! Fight because it is the right thing to do! Fight because you, like I, am tired of supporting bloated, two-faced, shallow, power-hungry people who's principles can be summed up with the simple phrase "look out for number one".

When times are darkest - that's when the steel of men's resolve is tested, not in times of celebration, not in times of ease, but when all things are failing around you. That's why I, and all other true supporters of Dr. Paul, will continue to believe that he can accomplish what you and many, many others say is impossible.

Only those who believe that something is possible can make it possible. Nothing ever has, and nothing ever will, come from a defeatist attitude except defeat.

If you think we will lose you only help to bring about that result. You must NEVER give up NEVER believe we will lose, always believe we will win. People like you drag down other people who still have not quite made up their mind. You will NEVER win if you believe you have already lost. Now most of us know and respect this, you however are blind to that fact.