[Mark Bahner]

"I nearly voted Constitution in 2000."

I don't see how anyone who cares about the Constitution, and who saw the "Ethics in Government" debate, could vote for Howard Phillips.

Howard Phillips made the absolutely ridiculous claim that the federal government should be involved in abortion, because of the 5th amendment. His completely ignorant interpretation on that amendment was that it was a restriction on individual actions...rather than a restriction only on federal government actions. His reasoning was that the 5th amendment prohibition on federal government denial of "life...without due process of law," actually constituted a federal prohibition on abortion.

No man so ignorant of the Constitution should be allowed to be President. (But, of course, that would mean that our current President wouldn't qualify.)

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

"I nearly voted Constitution in 2000." ~~ I don't see how anyone who cares about the Constitution, and who saw the "Ethics in Government" debate, could vote for Howard Phillips.

Because he is neither Bush nor Gore nor Nader nor Buchanan, of course. ;-)

But, in the end, I decided to be intellectually consistent. I am opposed to Abortion because Abortion is Murder; Murder Law is administered by the States; Murder Law is not administered by the Feds. This was Harry Browne's argument, and I found it to be logically sound.