Dear Jesse:

You're no Ron Paul. You're not highly educated. You probably haven't read Hayek, von Mises, or Rothbard. Your latest book is filled with poor grammar and disjointed thoughts, and is all about you instead of a philosophy. Forgive me, but you're sort of a big oafish goon. But you're also the only person at the moment capable of saving the United States.

A lot of freedom lovers looked to Ron Paul as the best hope for this country. But for many people Paul's positions are too radical. Some people turned to Obama because of his anti-war, anti-religious-right, anti-big-business stances, but now those supporters feel betrayed by his latest pro-war, pro-faith-based-initiative, pro-telecom-immunity statements. McCain has always been wishy washy on the issues, but you can usually count on him to go for the big-government solution. Bob Barr might look good to some people right now, but just a few years ago he was impeaching Clinton, leading the Drug War, voting for the Patriot Act, and giving Bush carte blanche to blow up little Iraqi kids, so who can trust him?

Those of us who call ourselves fiscal conservatives and social liberals — who are perhaps a majority of the population — have nowhere to turn. We've tried everything we can think of to tell the politicians to get us out of Iraq. We've tried to get them to impeach Bush. We've tried to get them to reduce the size and especially the scope of government. But none of it works. Everything keeps getting worse.

Maybe you didn't make the best decisions as the Governor of Minnesota, but you did your best. You showed that you were not in the pocket of big business, that you generally favored the freedoms and rights of individuals over the state, and that you are an honest man. Not only is that exactly the type of man we need right now as president, it's the only type that we should ever let in the Oval Office.

This article: Ron Paul's Successor proves that you can win Jesse. You're the only man on the entire planet who has a chance to defeat these guys and restore our once-great country.

Maybe you're thinking that a few years in the Senate will give you the added experience to elevate you into the Whitehouse. But America can't wait a few years. You asked us not to start the Revolution without you. Well we need to start the Revolution right now! Please, for the love of freedom, forget the Senate and run for president now!