My thoughts exactly!

I just read an article from ‘Campaign for Liberty‘ about why Mitt Romney lost the election. This article reflects my thoughts exactly:

I’ve been in politics long enough to know making predictions is a dangerous game.

But standing on the floor of the Republican National Convention this past August, I’ll admit I made one.

Completely shocked at what I had just witnessed, I muttered, “Romney just lost the election,” under my breath.

The GOP establishment had just railroaded through new party rules designed to weaken the power of grassroots activists of every stripe – not to mention the thousands of young people who were just starting to become politically active after hearing Ron Paul’s unwavering message of liberty.

The mood inside the building at that moment was hard to describe.

People were frustrated. They were confused and hurt. Many felt betrayed.

Just two years after these very Tea Party grassroots activists provided the energy that made the 2010 elections such a success, the question on everyone’s lips was “Why?”

As news of the event trickled out to the grassroots all throughout the country, the situation only became worse.

With $16 TRILLION in national debt and sky-high unemployment with no end in sight, many folks I know were desperate and chose to look past what happened.

They would have voted for a ham sandwich for President if it was running against President Obama.

I certainly understand that feeling.

Like you, I want my kids to grow up in a free and prosperous America.

Like you, I’m worried about the future of our country.

But on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 12 million fewer Americans showed up at the polls than voted in 2008.

I think that’s incredible. And it’s incredibly sad.

You see, I don’t believe those numbers are because Americans don’t care about what happens in Washington, D.C.

It’s not because Americans don’t understand the problems we face.

It’s that fewer and fewer Americans are buying what the Big Government, big spending establishment of both parties is selling.

And there’s no denying – with shifting political principles and positions, to go along with many anti-liberty stances – Mitt Romney was an incredibly tough sell for the GOP.

Going up against any incumbent, candidates who are tough sells virtually never win.

But now, you and I must be ready for the statists in Congress to double-down with even more assaults on our liberties in the coming months.

The good news is, our liberty movement is growing by leaps and bounds.

The next Congress will have more pro-liberty members than any in memory.

Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI) won a tough reelection race yesterday.

He’ll be joined by Congressman-elect Kerry Bentivolio from Michigan.

Former Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX) and Republican Senator-elect Ted Cruz (R-TX) both won their races handily.

Thomas Massie (R-KY) also emerged victorious in Kentucky.

All of these candidates and more answered their Campaign for Liberty Candidate Surveys in support for our issues.

The liberty movement’s success yesterday – even despite poor results overall for the GOP – should prove that it’s our movement that’s ready to take the reins and lead.

There are many more victories from yesterday to tell you about, and I’ll be sending another update with that information in the coming days.

But charting a new course for our country won’t be easy.

And it won’t be done in political party headquarters in Washington, D.C. or state capitals.

It will be done by tens of thousands of folks just like you from all over the country.

Campaign for Liberty is leading that charge. And the statists are on the run.

Five years ago, the Federal Reserve issue wasn’t even mentioned in political circles.

But this summer, Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed bill passed the U.S. House by a bipartisan three-fourths margin.

Thanks to the help of good folks like you, Campaign for Liberty has also successfully derailed Big Government schemes like “Cap and Tax,” the so-called “Disclose” Act, and government takeovers of the Internet.

We’re fighting to build a bipartisan coalition to stop intrusive government spying through the so-called “PATRIOT” Act and the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial.

And at the state level, Campaign for Liberty organizations are leading the fight to ban red light cameras, pass sound money legislation, stop “ObamaCare” implementation, and much more.

With your help, this will only be the beginning.

Each victory will lead to more.

As politicians learn that the price for betraying constitutional principles is political pain at the polls, you and I will see even more successes.

But first things first.

With the lame-duck Congress set to go into session next week, you and I have our work cut out for us.

The statists will be back in full force.

You and I will also have our hands full in the new Congress.

So I simply must be able to count on you moving forward.

I’ll be sure to keep you updated on any new developments in the coming days.

But thank you so much for your support.

Your continued action is making an incredible difference.

In Liberty,

John Tate
President

P.S. The next Congress will have more pro-liberty members than any in recent memory.

But you and I have to be ready for an all-out statist assault in the coming weeks and months.

If you could help Campaign for Liberty’s efforts to restore constitutional government by chipping in just $10 or $25, it would be very much appreciated.

There is some good that has come out of this election. As I predicted, the Tea Parties are now doubling down, and are ready for an all out fight with congress. It will take individual acts from across the board to stop the statists from ruining everything this nation stands for. There are looters on both sides of the isle, and they all need their feet held to the fire.

The best thing you can do is spread the message, join liberty groups, and work together to solve the issues which challenge our very way of life. Every cloud does have a silver lining, but you have to be the one to go out there and get it!

The Ron Paul Revolution and the liberty movement is just getting started!

Calm after the storm

The last month has been hectic, particularly in politics. In the weeks running up to the RNC I was nervous about Ron Paul getting the votes he needed, and maintaining his delegates in the face of tyranny from the Romney camp. I made a last stand to defend the great doctor, and to wake as many people up as possible before the roll call at the RNC on the 28th August 2012. A day which will now live in infamy; a day when a great constitutional patriot was shunned live on television for the world to see. I was infuriated that the republican establishment would stoop so low and shun the only man in the room who could win the general election for us. But on reflection, they did us a great favor; we now know that both parties are completely corrupt and need to go. Many of Ron Paul’s supporters including myself will now be voting for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who vetoed over 750 bills while governor of New Mexico. The revolution was gaining momentum before that fateful day, now it has gone into high gear.

Then came the DNC, and what a cop-out that was. I didn’t watch very much of it, but the ‘highlights’ were atrocious. We are currently living in Ayn Rand’s nightmare before the heroes leave in ‘Atlas Shrugged’.

And now that hurricane Issac has passed, and the parties are done with their conventions, it leaves me to wonder if I should shrug too. I worked very hard to promote Ron Paul during his campaign, and spent the entire week after the RNC showing how Gary Johnson is very similar to Ron Paul, and that patriots should vote for him instead of ‘the lesser of two evils.’

This country cannot survive much more money printing. We have already reached 16 trillion dollars; which is completely unsustainable. And there are far too many people who are asleep at the wheel in politics, or simply do not understand how bad things really are and why.

When I got back from my trip to see my family back in England earlier this year, I felt like I was entering a prison. I wrote about how I felt in a blog a couple days after I landed. It was shocking to me to find ‘the land of the free’ to be in such a state of tyranny.

For me I could easily shrug and live somewhere else. One of the perks of being born in Britain is that you never lose your citizenship. If I wanted to, I could return home or live overseas in Europe or a number of other islands spread throughout the world. But as Ayn Rand said “you can avoid evil, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding evil.” This is very true. Sure I could shrug, but how far would it get me? I could buy myself some time, and live like some sort of fugitive, but I wouldn’t be living a good and full life. When I came to this country I believed in the promise of freedom in America, in the American dream that you could make anything of yourself that you please. So my shock and upset at realizing that this country has fallen down the slippery slope toward totalitarianism, has only strengthened my resolve to be one of the leading voices to pull the country and its patriotic citizens out of the abyss.

This road back toward liberty will not be easy. This road has not yet been charted. We are like Knights forging through the thick forest, creating our own trails in our wake. My father in law created a post about himself, and the new generation of writers who lead the way through the mindless masses and media deception to expose the truth.

We will lead the charge back toward liberty, because if it is lost here in America, then there is little hope for the rest of the world.

For now though, I feel calm. I have made many of the points I needed to over the last month, and I’m enjoying somewhat of a vacation in my mind. It is always buzzing and sometimes there are great waves that must splash down and create; usually in the form of writing. Right now though, my mind is calm, and is clear like the weather outside. It is truly a beautiful early fall afternoon, and I feel like taking a ride on my V-Star. There is something very soothing about riding a V-Twin motorcycle through the countryside on a fall afternoon.

The good the bad and the ugly

Over the past fortnight we have witnessed political conventions from both the democrats and the republicans. We have also witnessed the birth of a revolution.

Here is ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly‘ from the last two weeks:

The Ugly

The Democratic Convention

The Democrats are so far gone, it’s like watching all the bad guys from ‘Atlas Shrugged’ It would take me a year to write out all the things that were wrong with the convention and their view points, and it still wouldn’t get us anywhere.

And no, we do not all ‘belong to the government’

The Bad

The Republican convention

My problem with the republicans is that they talk the talk, but they do not walk the walk. I liked many of the things that were discussed at the convention, but there was nothing concrete, and the president and vice president candidates are no good.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both have horrible spending records, and both support legislation which goes against the constitution. These are the two ‘conservative’ men who are challenging the current president and vice president.

The Good

The Independents

Clint Eastwood’s speech was aimed at all the politicians, and in a way it took a swipe at Romney himself. Clint Eastwood, like Ron Paul, rejected the polished teleprompter speeches, and made up one of his own. His speech could have been directed at almost everyone in government right now.

Ron Paul and his supporters fought to the last minute to get him onto the stage at the convention. The crushing way that the establishment stamped out the grassroots movement, including those of the Tea Parties, has helped expose the criminality and power hoarding behind the scenes.

Ron Paul’s last stand at the convention, and the way he was shunned, has shown us that the republican party is not on the right track, and has driven many of us toward the libertarian movement and to vote for Gary Johnson, who now leads the charge back toward liberty and fiscal responsibility.

Gary Johnson, former republican governor of New Mexico, who won in a state which is 2-1 democrat, and who vetoed over 750 bills while in office, is currently leading the libertarian party. With the disenfranchisement of many republicans and democrats, who know that both parties have lost their way, the libertarian party will see huge gains in November.

Do not fall into the collectivist trap, do not hide in numbers, do not vote for the lesser of two evils. Stand up as an individual and vote for your freedom and liberty.

There is no difference between Romney and Obama, but you can make a difference with Gary Johnson.

At the local level, there are many good republican candidates who support the constitution and fiscal responsibility. It is important that you get out and vote for anyone who espouses the foundations of this nation. This fight will not be won in November, but we will make an impact, and we will start to put the country back on track.

As for the criminals at the top; it’s time to round them up, and send them out!

Libertarians light the way

There were two things to be taken away from the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week.

One is that the Republican leadership is completely corrupt and does not support the base whatsoever.

The second is that we now live in a police state.

My generation has grown up during the Bush and Obama administrations, and cannot tell the difference between them. We cannot tell the difference between Obama and Romney, and we see through the political spin and pandering. They are all part of the same corrupt bipartisan establishment.

The way we see it; our parents and grandparents generations have lost their way, they believe the lesser of two evils is the way to go.

It has become apparent that only we can forge the future, and that if we don’t, the country will only fall ever deeper into a collective police state abyss.

We understand the free market system as much as the conservatives, and perhaps more so, because we know that our foreign policy is deeply flawed and that the more we trade with other nations instead of bomb them, and the more we cut taxes across the board, the bigger the economy will grow. Libertarians are not liberals, libertarians are capitalists, and believe in fiscal responsibility.

Lady liberty shines her light on the libertarian party. Only 12% of colonists fought the British during the war of independence. The liberty movement is growing, and with shameful acts of aggression from Romney’s people during the republican caucuses, we are now emboldened further in our cause to return liberty to this nation.

We must light the way, because all other policies and parties have failed. Darkness covers the land, and we must become the shining beacon in the night.

If the Tea Parties are successful in electing Romney to president, they will have become the very thing they swore to defeat only a couple of years ago.

In order to win, the libertarians must act like Jedi from Star Wars and use logic and non-violence to expose the shortcomings of both democratic and republican parties. With the DHS stocking up on over a billion rounds of hollow point ammunition, we simply cannot afford to start bloodshed.

People like ‘The Minister of Truth’ are the future of this nation. Here is a black man who is not only railing against Obama, but all the shenanigans of the republican party. ‘TMOT’ understands what true liberty is. I am honored to have found such a person out there in the world. TMOT shows that there is no greater weapon on earth than the human soul on fire.

We libertarians have many prominent voices out there. Ron Paul was our rallying call, and Gary Johnson is now our choice for president. There are many leaders and voices for liberty across the world wide web and in our communities. No matter what the republican establishment tries to tamp out dissent, it will only back fire on them.

We are the future of this country, we are the republicans if they will have us, and if not we’ll do it by ourselves. We have drawn a line in the sand, as the founding fathers did, and we have the constitution and another 200 years of economics and studies of governments and liberties behind us to embolden our views. We will rebuild this country, whether we get started this election or not. Libertarians light the way.

Mitt Romney

I keep hearing people talk about Obama, and how we must elect Mitt Romney to beat him. But how much do you really know about the republican candidate?

Strange But True: Mitt Romney Spent The Vietnam War In A French Palace

I thought that once Ron Paul was rejected by the establishment GOP, that I would go silently into the night and let everyone have their say and their vote between ‘the lesser of two evils’ without debating why I don’t like either of them. I thought that I would keep the peace and let bygones be bygones. But the way the RNC treated Ron Paul and his delegates was a disgrace to democracy and to the representation of the nation.

Death Of Democracy: GOP Party Bosses Seize Complete Control Of Selecting Candidates

This path of the lesser of two evils has done the very thing it was intended to; it brought about evil.

With bipartisan support, this new system of corruption has embedded itself on the American psyche, and we believe we are supposed to continue to play their silly games, while giving them unbridled power, and giving up our liberties.

Mitt Romney’s voting record is similar to Obama’s, and they agree on almost everything:

Mitt Romney is supposed to have been an entrepreneur and a job creator, but his legacy shows that his firm is an asset stripping company which ships jobs over seas.

Mitt Romney dodged the draft, while encouraging others to fight instead. His company looted and pillaged other companies that provided good jobs for people. And now we move forward to his governorship; in which he massively increased the state debt, and hiked fees across the board. During his governorship Massachusetts dropped to 47th in the nation for job creation.

So the idea that Mitt Romney is somehow going to save us from Obama is completely mis-founded. If you think that the media is bias now; think about a future with ‘Clear Channel’, which is owned by ‘Bain Capital’ cheer-leading his presidency at every turn, even when he continues the same atrocities of the Bush/Obama administrations.

So I’m asking you to think outside the box, and take a good long hard look at the candidate that you’ll be voting for.

Remember, if you decide to vote for the lesser of two evils; that makes you evil too.

The modern conservative party has been infiltrated by the neo-cons and their only agenda is power. The display at the RNC should give you shivers. I thought Nancy Pelosi was bad, but when I watched John Boehner blatantly ignore the objections in the crowd, I knew that he was no better. He, like so many other of the republicans at the RNC talk the talk, but they do not walk the walk, and that is simply not good enough.

As a Life Long Republican, I Will Not Vote For Romney.

Wake up and fight!

We have two weeks left to alter the history of mankind!

Crank up the volume and watch this video!

Neither Mitt Romney nor Barack Obama have any solid plan to fix the national debt and seriously reduce spending. And both support liberty stripping bills such as the Patriot act and the NDAA act. We need a leader who will return the country back to us, and allow us to manifest our own destiny. There is only one candidate who will reduce the deficit by 1 trillion dollars year one, and return our freedoms to us.

Ron Paul is the only candidate who cares about our liberties and the national debt. We have two weeks left to get him on the republican ticket and oust the national socialist Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan campaign.

The next two weeks are going to be brutal, the political/media machine is in full swing to keep the true patriots quiet and keep you asleep. If you truly want to alter the course of this country, talk to your republican friends and get them to put the pressure on at the convention for Ron Paul.

It’s time to take our country back and away from the political/media machine. Wake up and fight!

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