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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
RON PAUL
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
RON PAUL
I don't trust the TSA at all. I personally would want to be rid of that too. I have no idea of GJ's actual reason, just a theory.
I don't think anyone here actually thinks GJ will be elected. It's more about advancing a viable third party. I like the idea of another party option with automatic 50 state ballot access and matching funds.
Brother, I am the king of not trusting the TSA. You are failing to understand how bureaucracy works. Declaring a replica pistol in one of your checked bags is the best way to ensure nothing gets stolen, because they put a higher level of surveillance and tracking on such bags, and TSA thieves go for low hanging fruit. Back when I occasionally contended with live rats I carried and declared an air pistol in my toolbag and it was almost as good as carrying insurance since they tracked my toolbag like a hawk.
If a third party wants my vote, then they will not nominate people who offend my most fundamental political principles.I don't think anyone here actually thinks GJ will be elected. It's more about advancing a viable third party. I like the idea of another party option with automatic 50 state ballot access and matching funds.
If this is the kind of schlep the LP is going to nominate, then why in the everlasting duck would I want to advance these lunatics?
You have to give a little I think. You'll never find a candidate that you agree with all the time. Some of the posters have have impossibly nuanced stances and will never be satisfied.
I don't agree with GJ on everything. But he's a good honest guy who means well and will at least move things in the right direction by using his credibility towards having a viable third party.
More evidence from an AP Supporter at the convention:
https://www.facebook.com/ialivefree/...c_location=ufi
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
RON PAUL
If the LP ticket had been Glen Bradley and Derrick Grayson I'd be all in. Now THAT would be a 20% ticket. Easily.
Only if you don't give a rat's damn about anyone else's liberty but your own.
You mean like the critical balance of federal and state powers?There are issues other than gay cakes,
Which balance Johnson will take even more catastrophically off-kilter than it already is?
On stuff YOU like maybe. Certainly not on the stuff I like.on most of which Gary would be an enormous improvement over the status quo.
All the more reason NOT to nominate a ticket that's worse on liberty than the HilldaTrump.B. No one's talking about electing Gary. This isn't about electing Gary. This is about getting press for libertarianism.
Yeah, writing in RP is getting even easier.
I'll sleep well on election night.
Gunny is right, it was a douche move.
If Gary Johnson does well, the LP will get matching funds and automatic ballot access in all 50 states. That's huge. So then, in 2020, the delegates are free to elect a purer Libertarian candidate, like Austin Petersen. He is only 35, so I guess he'll be around next time.
There are differences between Gary and Austin, but I don't see a big difference. I get it why Austin endorsed Gary, because Austin probably wants to run again in 2020, but then with a war chest and automatic ballot access, assuming Gary won't run again (which I think he won't). Could be a landslide victory for Austin. He is only 35, so he could be the prime Libertarian candidate for years, if not decades, to come.
You don't like cutting federal spending? Ending the wars? Repealing the PATRIOT Act?
...to name a few of his many solidly libertarian positions.
All the more reason NOT to nominate a ticket that's worse on liberty than the HilldaTrump.
That's the craziest thing I've heard all day.
...and I've spent a good part of the day dealing with Trumpkins.
You know what the LP should do to get attention? Start a reality show. Seriously, this is straight out of one of those shows on the E! network.
NeoReactionary. American High Tory.
The counter-revolution will not be televised.
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