Sir, you are not familiar with who I am but felt it necessary to write and publish my apology to you.

I must say first that I’ve become quite devoted to your message here of late and am now fully convinced that your unheralded lone voice of reason within the hallowed halls of the House of Representatives is our greatest and potentially last hope for a bastion of true democracy our Founding Fathers envisioned for this great nation.  It’s a shame the recognition you are certainly deserving of comes not to the sounds of grandiose applause but in the form of this newspaper submission.  It’s a shame I was initially deaf to your vast warnings as my own thought processes were made numb by the lambasting you’ve been given at the hands of members of my own party, something now in retrospect I find as unforgivable offense as any; and it’s a shame there aren’t more American’s out there who feel the way I do.  Perhaps they are as uninformed and misled as I initially, and simply require further introduction to the man who is Ron Paul.  Of everything I’ve read, listened to, and even witnessed your uncompromising character, your compassion for your fellow man, your unabashed service not only to our country but to your local district is something to be admired, respected, followed, emulated.

For me, it took watching the Presidential debates and hearing you say (if I may loosely quote), “If anyone here is a true conservative, it’s me,” before I began asking myself, “Who really is this Ron Paul fella?”  You see, I’m a North Carolina Southern Republican (I’d rather now prefer calling myself a Free Thinking American Conservative), and find truth in many of the ominous forecasts you’ve presented, contrary to the beleaguered attempts by many on the Republican side of the isle to diminish in every way your character as ‘Un-American’.  In fact, prior to my own self indoctrination on the realities of who you are was oft caught labeling you a kook; for you did not subscribe to right-winged philosophy of Conservatism and True Americanism.  For this I find myself most apologetic and deeply ashamed.  Any man with such stalwart and forthright convictions as you should not be made such an insignificant by members of a party yearning for truth, nobility, and morality.  Because of you I’ve had to relearn all I’ve learned, reevaluate my positions on a great many things.  I may still disagree with you on some issues, but of the true foundations in your arguments there can be no doubt, and I for one will never again allow myself to be so blinded by the arrogances of one party affiliation or another.

My humbled thanks and most sincere of apologies again sir, I wish more of our countrymen were as ardent Patriots as you.

v/r

- John N. Horton