Ron Paul Supporter Takes Out "Wake Up Call" Full-Page Ad in the USA Today

On Wednesday, 50-year-old investment manager and Harvard Business School MBA Larry Lepard announced that he has collaborated on the design and copy of a full-page USA Today ad with a spontaneously generated team of Ron Paul supporters on ronpaulforums.com.

Lepard then invested approximately $85,000 of his own money to bring a message to the American people, which he says is this: "Ron Paul is the best hope America has to restore the Constitution and get our country back on track." 

The ad is called "An Open Letter to the American People" and reads as if it is a letter written by the Founding Fathers in which they chastise today's "we the people" for not making their government uphold their original vision or even adhere to the Constitution. Issues including entangling foreign alliances, government corruption, excessive taxation, and preserving national sovereignty are brought up and then given the solution that Ron Paul will implement as President.

Lepard, who is married and the father of three, says that he is is deeply troubled by the prevailing pre-emptive war paradigm and as what he views as the decimation of civil liberties and the U.S. Constitution, has followed Ron Paul's political career for over 20 years.

Called by his vociferously loyal supporters "the Champion of the Constitution"--and called "downright scary" by those who don't side with his views--Paul is a 10-term Republican Congressman from the 14th District of Texas. His campaign has begun to utterly shock media pundits with its tenacious success, including grassroots efforts netting the campaign $4.2 million in one 24-hour period on November 5th.

"Over the years, I learned to admire both his positions and his integrity...This ad is my way of throwing a stone -- very hard and very well-aimed -- at the forehead of overbearing government. We'll see if it hits the target," says Lepard of his ad.