"Winners" and "Losers"

Most people want to vote for a "winner."

Nobody wants to vote for a loser.

What made America's Founding Fathers true winners was their willingness to be losers, if that's what it took:

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The winners are those who lost their lives, their businesses, and were called "traitors" by those on the (eventual) losing side of the American Revolution.

They stood for their principles.

They were willing to spend a winter at Valley Forge even if they lost a limb to frostbite.

In 1765, Patrick Henry

proposed the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions. Few members of the Burgesses, as aristocratic a group of legislators as existed in the colonies, would argue openly for defiance of Gr. Britain. Henry argued with remarkable eloquence and fervor in favor of the five acts, which by most accounts amounted to a treason against the mother country.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/henry.htm

Ten years later, Henry was still heard saying, "Give me liberty, or Give me death." And it would be nearly ten years after that before Britain would admit that the American Revolutionaries were winners.

The real winners are those who are willing to be called losers. The real winners are those who are willing to take a stand for truth long before the majority concedes defeat.

Too many Americans today are losers.

Their government wants them to believe they are winners as long as they stay in line and don't talk out of turn.

In a recent test, American students competed against foreign students in a math bee. In addition to the math questions, the "self-esteem" of the participants was probed when they were asked to answer "yes" or "no" to the statement, "I am good at math." The Americans overwhelmingly believed they were winners.

But they were losers.

Dead last.

The South Koreans were the winners.

We have to change the way Americans think about elections.

People must realize that a vote for the principle of "Liberty Under God" is a winning vote, and a vote for continued expansion of the Messianic State is a cosmic loser, regardless of which candidate "wins" the election.

Many Americans today, were they living in Germany before World War II, would have been proud to vote for Adolph Hitler. They would have boasted that they did not "waste" their vote by voting for a "loser." Adolph Hitler was democratically elected. He was a "winner."

Most dictators and tyrants in the 20th century had "elections" and were declared to be "winners."

And most voters lacked the patriotic guts to "waste" their vote by voting for principle over The Party.

In November voters in Southwest Missouri will be called upon to chose between the losing principle of slavery to the Messianic federal government, and the winning principle of "Liberty Under God." They will be asked to break away from the two-party monopoly and be the first to put a Libertarian in Congress. Two million dollars' worth of 60-second radio and TV ads could not accomplish this goal. What is needed is a million man-hours of provocative conversation, challenging questions, and maybe a little hand-holding, spread out over 100,000 Missouri voters, to convert lukewarm losers into winning, passionate "extremists."

This may not be the year that the Income Tax is repealed (1765) , or the Federal Nanny abolished (1776), or those who support the initiation of force sign a treaty of unconditional surrender (1783), but winners are already hard at work to accomplish those goals.

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Activism, Patriotism, Protest -- KEVIN CRAIG for Congress