Was it the Return of Jason that brought IPR down the morning after ? Is the Last Free Voice that of Elf Ninos Dad ? Poor Third Party Watch, does anyone care anymore ? How did George do up in New Hampshire ? What about Bob ? In NY, the LPNY collected more signatures than votes it seems. Our numbers doubled from 2004 though, with a 47% increase from the Gubernatorial effort two years ago. That's my best Wes Benedict spin on the results . . .
Sorry if I chuckle the next day . . . but it ain't about winning folks . . . it's about the fight.
Progressives with a taste for the absurd ought to be tipping their wine glasses to Ralph this holiday season. His last hurrah was a tremendous success. A world record in some regards.
Still blaming Ron Paul ? If this crazy Lt. Colonel was driving the forces out of Atlanta, they would have concentrated strictly on the Texas situation. That alone could have brought the whole point and plight of third parties to fore and potentially derailed the whole enchilada. Sorry, but Mr. Barr is a lawyer, if I had that power to walk into court and make that immediate and dire case about this breach of law, the rest is filing fees, not hired guns. Not that much money.
McCain, Obama ? Who cares about those guys ? Their bubble is formed by the pliable, malleable minority that creates dominion over us. I know Kent won't worry.
Mike Gravel should have been the pick this year. lf his life long entitlement instinct couldn't be replaced for the War and his National Initiative, he wouldn't be a successful politician. While the latter made hardcore theory folk nuts, it was Populist enough and backed by a book. Good enough for the we gotta get media folks. Even 'ol TK thinks so. His cutting edge commercials and call for bombing Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib would have made as good a political theater as dressing down Obama and Hillary did . . .
Whatever the hypersensitive LRC thinks, they still would have voted Ron Paul, despite the non voting rhetoric.
It takes decades for a real credible shift in the electorate. I still can't figure Prop 8 in California, Al Franken's on the ropes and nobody's blaming Dean Barkley. Possession of a weed got less vicious in Massachusetts, unlike it's income tax and canine unemployment plan.
Hope is a four letter word. Change for it's own sake is normal under the circumstances. Americans are stuck with this system and do little to make it different. Those of us who stand outside main tent and huddle in our liberty bivouacs shouldn't be bitter or full of hate. We'll survive the storms of each passing system. If chaos and order break down, it won't be because we failed or didn't offer something different, it will be because people cannot stomach or bear the burden that pacifiers, sycophants and controllers prescribe for us. Freedom will come at a huge price at a point in human history, when technology and basic moral understanding, didn't require the extension of the Cold War into a War on Terrorism. When our sophistication about currencies and markets demanded better and could do so.
The world is certainly breathing a sigh of relief that John McCain is not taking the helm of the giant wounded animal that is the US. Perhaps it sees in Obama what all thought was possible. Invariably the mantle he has just inherited is suspect and the prospects are dim. The amount of debt and promises that statists make and require will only doom his legacy to the likes of Jimmy Carter. If the myth of Reagan would ever falter, perhaps all could believe that no government is best. The cavalry isn't coming.
Congrats to Mike Munger for keeping NC on the ballot for the next four years. He deserves the LP nomination in 2012 at this point . . . the messiah model doesn't work. Let's reward hardworking performers and party faithful. He's right to keep running for gov.
Look out Chucky . . . this crap ain't gonna fly.
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