On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, John Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>
>>>> Well, on my ballot, if I were to not vote for the incumbent in a
>>>> lot of
>>>> the state & local races, that left me with a choice between a
>>>> Democrat and
>>>> a Libertarian in all of the cases where I was left with a choice
>>>> of 2
>>>> non-incumbents. The Democrats would be more likely to spend
>>>> more. Which
>>>> is why I came to the conclusion I did.
>>>>
>>>> I guess your ballots are somewhat different from mine, then, in
>>>> terms of
>>>> how heavily any given party is represented, and how likely a
>>>> candidate
>>>> from a particular party is to beat one from another particular
>>>> party.
>>>
>>> I wish there were as many libertarians in the top 3 on my ballots
>>> as there
>>> were on yours! You must live in a libertarian-friendly area.
>>
>> North of Austin, TX.
>>
>> Texas is somewhat interesting that way in some places....
>>
>> Julia
>
> And, in many cases, the Libertarian Party candidates are something a
> little different from what I'd call small-l libertarian. The capital-
> L variety, around here at least, tend to be more than a little on the
> neopentecostal-theocratic side.
Maybe "tend to be", but I wouldn't characterize George Paap that way, and
he got on the ballot in Williamson County as a Libertarian candidate not
too long ago.... In fact, I think that if there's a *cure* for
neopentocostal-theocratic-ness, George could be an ingredient for that
cure.
Julia
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