I do know who you are and I was happy to vote for Michael Badnarik. He was a far better choice than George W. Bush and actually is a Constitutional scholar. One need not be a celebrity or a college graduate to be a scholar, or qualified to hold the office of president. Serving in the U.S. military also does not make someone more or less qualified.
George W. Bush is a military deserter. I'd rather have someone who never served than someone who deserted their post, and an easy post at that because his father arranged it. Being a celebrity does not make one a better candidate and neither does having a college degree. The wealthiest man in the world doesn't have a college degree. I could give a list a mile long of people without college degrees who have accomplished more than 10,000 people who do have one. You claim if one of the other candidates were chosen instead of Badnarik, we would have no libertarians supporting Bush. That has nothing to do with it. We didn't have any libertarians supporting Bush. There were no libertarians who voted for Bush. I was happy to vote for Badnarik, and I'd do it again, but I would not vote for Doug Stanhope. --- In [email protected], "Eric Dondero Rittberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sir, I don't know who you are, or where you come from. But let me > bring you up to speed on a couple facts you have obviously missed. > > There were virtually NO libertarians, libertarian Republicans nor > Libertarian Party members who were supporting George W. Bush for the > election in 2004. Not a single one that I was aware of, and I'm > quite the libertarian social animal. > > That, of course, was all the way up to the dissastrous Libertarian > Party National Convention which nominated Michael Badnarik over > Aaron Russo and Gary Nolan. > > Many of us were so extremely disgusted with the choice of Badnarik, > a guy who had never held elective office, had no celebrity to speak > of, called himself a "Constitutional Scholar" yet never even > graduated college, that we immediately switched over to Bush. > > We sought to find the positive in Bush, and there was some > positives; tax cuts, proposals to privatize social security, > appointment of Pro-Choicer Ann Davidson as RNC Chair, ect... > > If the LP had nominated Russo or Nolan, I don't think you would have > seen a single libertarian Republican backing Bush. > > But we all know what happened. > > Let's hope the LP gets smart for 2008 and doesn't nominate some > Losertarian like George Phillies, Carol Moore, or God Help us > Badnarik, again. > > Republicans for Doug Stanhope!!! > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "thomasjefferson1743" > <thomasjefferson1743@> wrote: > > > > I can't believe what I'm reading in here. A person calling > themselves > > libertarian actually has the nerve to suggeset that other > libertarians > > vote for Bush, and another calling the GOP a second home for > > libertarians. > > > > I've been an activist and a member of the party for a number of > years. > > I've always taken pride in the fact that we are no closer to being > > Republicans than we are from being Democrats. Both are vile in my > book. > > > > I don't think there is any amount of money or force that could get > me > > to vote for George W. Bush or any other Republican or Democrat. > IMHO > > voting for Democrats is like voting for Stalin, and voting for for > > Republicans is like voting for Hitler. Either way you get > > authoritarianism, either way your property is stolen from you, and > > either way, you belong to the state. > > > > I thought this was the "Libertarian" group. Does anyone moderate > the > > trolls who come in here seeking to rile people up? Shouldn't a > > libertarian group have libertarian people talking about > libertarianism > > and the best way to further the cause? We all know liberty will > never > > be gotten by voting for Republicans and Democrats. It hasn't > worked > > yet in our America's history, so when will people learn and do > > something else, like choose not to compromise our principles, and > not > > apologize for our positions even when some uptight Republican or > > Democrat are threatened or offended by them. > > > ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
