He never heard about us
I took the car to the repair shop and while the guy was fixing the car we engaged in a conversation. His two sons served as marines in Iraq, and are now back at home. He told me that he is against the war, he didn’t understand why his sons had to risk their live over there and what American interest did it serve. He said something that I found very remarkable about Iran - USSR, he said, had thousands of missiles and we knew how to live with it and didn’t thought that we must destroy them - why can’t we live with few missiles that Iran might develop?
The repair shop was covered with posters of Reagan, Oliver North and some guys that I didn’t recognize. I was voting for the Republican candidate for years, he said, but I don’t know what will I do in november. Than he opened the car’s trunk and saw old campaign signs calling to elect Ron Paul. Who is this guy, he asked me, I never heard about him…
The more than million votes that Ron Paul received in the last primaries are only a drop in the sea. We must learn how to get to the masses, to people like the guy in the repair shop that could easily turned into voters. The fact that they never even heard the name Ron Paul is something that should not happened again.
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