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The Ship of State is listing badly to
port,
and Judge Andrew Napolitano is the star to steer her
by.
Draft the Judge, He
Tells The Truth
Although
Ron Paul has yet to be specific about what's next for him, it is highly
unlikely he will run for president again. So then, what's next for the Liberty
Movement now that it won't have presidential candidate Ron Paul to
hug anymore?
Ron Paul has been the inspiration and mentor of
the Liberty Movement for many years, and he always will be.
But now he has stepped aside as the Liberty Movement’s candidate for
President of the United States, and he has singled out one person
who is capable up picking up his mantel, Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Judge Napolitano is the one person
best suited to assume Dr. Paul's role as presidential contender in the
Republican Party and to become the intellectual leader of the Liberty
Movement.
Without a strong and principled leader at the
helm, the Liberty Movement could founder, and worse, it could be hijacked
by the Republican Party Establishment.
Judge Napolitano is
the perfect Liberty Candidate: He is a man of principle, a truth teller who will plug his ears to the siren song
of the Republican Establishment that would lure him onto the shoals of
partisan accommodation. The Liberty movement cannot afford to run its own
libertarian version of Mitt Romney or the Georges Bush in the false hope of
an early, Pyrrhic victory.
We are dedicating as long as it takes
to Draft Judge Napolitano to run for president. The
Liberty Movement needs The Judge as its new helmsman, and the country needs
The Judge as its inspiration and its leader. Judge Napolitano would
be a candidate, perhaps the only candidate from within the Liberty Movement
whom everyone in the Movement
could rally round enthusiastically and who really could win the presidency on principle in
2016.
There is no other
person in the country as respected and popular within the Liberty Movement
as Andrew Napolitano, a former jurist, constitutional scholar, New York
Times best-selling author and TV celebrity. Napolitano can reach
outside the confines of the Movement to inspire and capture the hearts and
minds of Americans from every corner of life. Napolitano will
carry forward the campaign for liberty with a revolutionary spirit as Ron
Paul did.
Judge Napolitano initially may try to ignore the
Liberty Movement’s call to run, and if he does, we must say, “Run Judge, run.” He
may say “No,” and we must say, “Yes Judge, run.” He may resist again, and
we must say, “Read our lips
Judge, run; no other candidate will do.” -- Defend
Liberty. Draft The Judge.
I have said before,
"Beyond The Man Is The Movement." But in politics, every movement
must have a captain at the helm or it becomes rudderless. Right
now, the Liberty Movement is without a skipper and essentially adrift
without Ron Paul's firm hand on the tiller, which makes it ripe for a
hostile takeover by the Republican political establishment. Don't forget
V.I. Lenin's dictum, "The best way to control the opposition is to lead it
ourselves."
The Liberty Movement does not require a visionary
helmsman to run recklessly before the wind in delusory hope of arriving
early to presidential port in 2016. It must lead the country, which means
not only being ahead of the country but also having the patience and
perspicacity to wait upon the country to follow it-all in good time.
This is part of our
initial unveiling of the formation of a committee to draft Napolitano- the
person Ron Paul said he would choose
as his running mate- to pick up Ron Paul's mantle and run as a
Republican in 2016 for President of the United States. We need you
to join this nation-wide petition drive to gather enough signatures to
demonstrate a groundswell of support for Judge Napolitano's
candidacy.Eisenhower was drafted into the
Presidency:
Successful
presidential drafts are rare but not unheard of. The two most
successful modern efforts to draft candidates for the presidency both
occurred in the 1952 campaign. There had been an effort within both
political parties to draft five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower to run as
a candidate for President as early as 1948 and then again in 1951.
Eisenhower studiously ignored both efforts. He was, however, finally
compelled to pay attention after Henry Cabot Lodge entered him in the 1952
New Hampshire Republican primary without the general's authorization.
Eisenhower won the entire slate of Republican delegates in the New
Hampshire primary without even campaigning. After the votes were
in, Eisenhower told a reporter,
"Any American who would have that many other Americans
pay him that compliment would be proud or he would not be an American."
Ike announced his candidacy for the presidency
the next day. Having failed to capture Eisenhower as their own,
the Democrats proceeded to draft Adlai Stevenson to run against
him.
In addition to
gathering signatures urging Judge Napolitano to run, we also intend to
start building a campaign war chest and mobilizing ground troops to make
sure Napolitano is positioned to get on the ballot in every state when he accepts the
Liberty Movement's mandate to run.
The best thing about Judge Andrew
Napolitano as a candidate for president is that he, like Ron Paul, will
always tell the truth, no matter what, so help him God. No obfuscation, no
weasel words, no mumbo jumbo and gobbledygook, no pandering to the
Establishment- just the truth,
the plain truth and nothing but the truth.
The Ship of State
is listing badly, and Judge Andrew Napolitano is the star to steer her by.
Defend Liberty. Draft the Judge.
Defend liberty,
Larry Hunter
209 Pennsylvania
Avenue, SE
Suite 2109
Washington, DC 20003
P.S. Remember,
"Beyond The Man Is The Movement". We must have a leader who doesn't just
know how to talk the talk about the principles of liberty but also has a
proven record of walking the walk on those principles. The country needs
the Liberty Movement, and the Liberty Movement needs Judge Napolitano. And
we need your signature to make it happen. Please sign the petition
today!"
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