[Libertarian] Arab American hopes to unseat Rep. Lantos

SJ Mercury News ^ | 12/22/01 | Chuck Carroll

[AmishDude]

The Dems could run Osama bin Laden in this district and win.

Hmmm. It seems that the Libertarians could run OBL and certain people who post here -- on this thread -- repeatedly -- would vote for him.

[luvzhottea]

I share your assessment of Lantos.
Amazing how some would vote for him over a person favoring freedom and liberty, especially when there is no GOP challenger of any seriousness.

My basic philosophical political outlook is libertarian but I vote GOP in any case where there is a GOP candidate with any remote chance of winning. I believe in the GOP and its ability to effectively bring a traditional conservative government back to America.
I have in the past, and will continue to do so, blasted the official Libertarian party for running candidates that effectively put Democrats in power, e.g. GOP Sen. Slade Gorton in Washington state lost to leftist Maria Cantwell by less than the number of votes the Libertarian candidate siphoned off from Gorton. It is in these cases that I really get upset with the L.P. However the majority of libertarian principles are more closely aligned with the traditional conservatism that our country was founded upon.

There has been a lot of bashing of Americans of Arab descent, of Americans of the Islamic faith and of the Islamic religion on FR. I think it is unwise, politically, to have conservatism identified with racism and religious bigotry and hatred. To see people extolling Lantos over this LP candidate soley on his ethnicity and religious faith is a despicable situation.

[VA Advogado]

Libertarian: A republican with fetishes and vices they refuse to surrender.

[Cultural Jihad]

Hadn't Tom Lantos committed suicide yet?

[tpaine]

Bashing libertarians shames your heritige and shows your lack of common:

-------- Sense ----------

Always in the distance,
Beyond horizon's light.

- [to you anyway]

[tpaine]

Pitiful, - even for a zero.

[AmishDude]

Bashing libertarians shames your heritige [sic]

You're so right:
AmishDude (L) -- now I'm perfect
AmishDude (R) -- now I'm evil
AmishDude (L) -- now I'm perfect again!

This is fun.

[tpaine]

Had not? - No, I guess he hadn't, as of a few minutes ago anyway.

But we can hope.

[Don Myers]

It will be interesting to see how an Arab-American will fare in this contest.

[The Green Goblin]

Hmmm. It seems that the Libertarians could run OBL and certain people who post here -- on this thread -- repeatedly -- would vote for him. p>

The Amish are famous for molding things out of dung, and this statement of yours certainly continues the tradition...

[tpaine]

You are demonstating your mental age, I grant you that.

What else do you think you're doing ?

[AmishDude]

The Amish are famous for molding things out of dung

Uh . . . yeah . . . sure . . . whatever.

[Wm Bach]

How can a Muslim really be a Libertarian?

The article only mentions that Abu-Ghazala is an attorney of Arab extraction. It does not mention his religion. He could very well be a Christian American.

[AmishDude]

What else do you think you're doing ?

Mockery, I believe. It is not a subtle concept, that is true, but perhaps it was too subtle in this context.

[tpaine]

I predict about the same results as the Republican freeper had, that ran against lantos last time. [whats his name?]

Result? -- Total embarrassment.

[Don Myers]

Probably.

[tpaine]

Dude, -- you need a --

-------- Sense --------

of humor in order to mock your betters.
-- You demonstrated your lack of that at #52.

Go back to Lancaster & raise a barn.

[PRO 1]

I'd be behind anyone that unseated that Natzi Lantos

[alpowolf]

This race certainly has one thing going for it. Since the GOP candidate (assuming there is one) doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning, we ought to be spared the usual whining about the Libertarian candidate "causing" the Republican to lose.

[muawiyah]

Equating US laws with the Sha'ria is one of the most ignorant statements anyone could possibly make.

You do know how the Sha'ria was derived don't you? It was a bunch of religious leaders over several hundred years reviewing cases at law and then asking them selves how Mohammed and his disciples would have decided the case and what principles were involved.

There was no element of deliberation - just guessing at the "feelings" of a bunch of guys long dead.

This eventually led Islam to a point of philosophical collapse. That's where it's at today.