Susan, I'm afraid you're a little late on this subject. I believe that this will go down as one of the great "missed opportunities" in the history of the Libertarian Party.
In 2004 I was corresponding with Michael Badnarik about seizing the opportunity to generate support for the Party by positioning ourselves as the anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-police-state vanguard. He wrote me a polite reply, insisting that his pro-constitutionalist positions implicitly supported these positions. Well, of course they do. But now that Ron Paul has EXPLICITLY come out as an anti-war, anti-statist candidate, and set the libertarian movement on fire in the process, we longtime Party members are sitting around scratching our heads, wondering where "our" guys went wrong. The Party leadership is timid. They want to prattle on about abolishing the income tax, but say nothing about ending welfare slavery or the war on drug users. I understand where they're coming from, but quite frankly, Ron Paul has proved them wrong. Since 1980, I've been promoting Libertarianism as an antidote to creeping Statism, warning friends and others that if we don't stand up to incremental tyranny NOW, our future will bring dictatorship and ruin. Well, the future is now, the dictatorship is imminent, our empire is despised worldwide, and economic ruin is increasingly probable. The Libertarian Party's Moment arrived. Then left. Maybe the Ron Paul Revolution will wake them up. I hope so. Until then, this longtime anarcho-capitalist libertarian is voting Republican. This may be our last opportunity to stave off disaster at the ballot box. If the Oligarchy wins again--which they probably will--I believe our best chance lies in RESISTANCE. I hate that it's gotten this bad, but I believe it has. Bruce ...who canvassed Georgia for Ron Paul back in '88, and would gladly take a bullet for him now.
