Yes, Virginia, There Is a Ron Paul

by Darren McPhilimy


Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Ron Paul. Papa says "If you see it in The Sun it's so." Please tell me the truth; is there a Ron Paul?



Virginia O'Hanlon.
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Virginia,


Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Ron Paul. He exists as certainly as peace and freedom and prosperity exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Ron Paul! We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which liberty fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Ron Paul! You might as well not believe in the Constitution! The media might hire polling firms that conceal Ron Paul's true level of support among the people, but what would that prove? Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

No Ron Paul! Thank God, he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the hearts of free men.
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Perhaps the line above should read, "Papa says, 'If you see it at LRC it's so.'"


Regards,

Darren McPhilimy
Tarentum, PA


Darren McPhilimy [send him mail] began publishing on the Internet in 1996. His latest effort is the blog CrockettAlmanac.com.

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