The Campaign for Liberty

By Tommy Leung on 06/12/2008 in Politics

Ron Paul’s presidential campaign has officially come to an end but, the revolution continues. With the $4.7 million dollars that he has leftover from the campaign, Ron Paul has established the Campaign for Liberty. This is the next phase of the movement that Ron Paul has been talking about. The ideas, excitement, and momentum of the presidential campaign will not end with the campaign–the fight to restore the republic is just getting started.

The Campaign for Liberty intends to promote and defend the ideas of liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a non-interventionist foreign policy through the use of political and educational means. This initiative has the potential to bring about real and lasting change–not Barack Obama’s “change”. The presidential campaign brought people who believed in limited government, freedom, free markets, non-interventionism, etc together. It also awakened others who long thought real American principles were dead and opened the eyes of those who would be classified as “sheep”. Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty will build upon the presidential campaign by creating a central place to continue the fight.

Supporters of Paul’s campaign have long knew that the revolution would not die with the campaign. We knew it was a movement. The ideas are sound and lasting. It was not about sound bites or what government was going to give us. Where the other candidates were generally very forgettable and had no real message, Ron Paul was different. In my review of The Revolution: A Manifesto, I compared Ron Paul to Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. The Campaign for Liberty solidifies Ron Paul’s position with the ranks of Paine and Jefferson in the history books.

There is no way to foretell how history will judge us. What will be written about the America of the early 21st century in the 22nd century? What we can hope for is it will say a strong group of liberty-lovers led by the Ron Paul Revolution made a stand to bring America back to greatness in light of economic and political collapses. To paraphrase a Ron Paul quote, “let it not be said that no one did nothing when it was clear that our freedom and prosperity were being taken away from us.”

By Tommy Leung