The booing wasn't nice, but I'm still voting for Michael Badnarik in 2004!
ROFL! What a bunch of liberal hippie morons!
We would expect nothing less of you, Commie.
Third Party voting only works in the primaries. This is how it works. Say that the Democrats get 35% of the vote, the Communists get 2% of the vote, the Socialist Worker's Party gets 3% of the vote, the Greens get 6% of the vote, and the Libertarians get 2% of the vote. Then, in the general election, the Democratic candidate can look at the primary election results and say: "Gee. 13% of my important constituents feel really strongly about moral-liberal issues, so therefore I will alter my message accordingly in the general election!"
The Libertarian Party is to politics what Scientology is to established Religion......
Victory or Death (Vanity)
Vanity | 3/14/2004 | tort_feasor
Posted on 03/14/2004 10:08:12 AM PST by tort_feasor
This November the people of the United States will make a choice between Victory and Death. My choice was made on September 11, 2001. My sister was working in One World Trade Center when Islamic Terrorists crashed a commercial Airliner 30 stories above her office. As she told me she heard a loud noise and then "papers and debris came floating past me." On that day I was blissfully unaware of the events for 45 minutes. I returned to my office to the words that cut off my breathing. "We are at war. The World Trade Center and Pentagon have been hit by planes." For over three hours, we waited for word on my sister's fate. I remebered calling frantically for news. Having my mother tell me that the south tower had collapsed and then that the North tower had collapsed also. When she did and we still had not heard from my sister I tried to face the inevitable loss. The anger and rage I have felt still burns. Thankfully just before noon, we heard from my sister's boyfriend. He had just talked to her and that she was going to a friend's house, unhurt. That weekend she relayed the horror of being caught in the World Trade Center. Of checking her office for anyone left behind. Slowly floor by floor descending the stairwellls. Seeing brave, tired firefighters climbing the same stairwells and sensing they were facing their doom. She related that as they neared the bottom, the stairwell was damaged and she had to cross a floor with no lights to reach another. She told of the water pooling on the steps and the seemingly endless trek downward. When she reached the exits, she told of the firefighters yelling to just run, don't look back. Minutes later One World Trade was added to the rubble pile of Ground Zero. Why do I recount this? I say this to everyone on Freerepublic that votes for John Kerry, or Libertarian or the Constitutional Party or even just stays home is voting against the man who is avenging 911 and is therefore implicitly supporting the very Islamic Terrorists that attempted to murder my sister along with the 50,000 other people in the World Trade Center that day. Now you may not like Bush for the Budget deficit. Fine I am not happy with the government spending but will Kerry be better? I don't think so. Is Medicare and the education department Unconstitutional? Under a strict reading yes, but voting along with 1 percent of all americans for the Consitutional Party isn't going to change the Supreme Court. And who will put better judges on The Courts,Bush or Kerry? Trust me I do respect the beliefs, opinions and right to express such ideas from those who have philosophical disagreements with the president. However, there are murdering madmen bent on doing to us what they almost did to my sister. We must Relect the president and wage unrelenting war until victory or elect Kerry and wait for our eventual defeat and death.
If they want to be take seriously, they need to have their Sh*t together a lot more. Otherwise get outta here.
Jeffrey Diket may not have been the only Pro-Life Libertarian in the race.
The gentleman who actually won the Libertarian Party nomination, Michael Badnarik, revealed recently in a June 17, 2004 interview with The Free Liberal that he has (like formerly pro-abortion Ronald Reagan?) changed his position on Abortion.
Badnarik confesses that he is now torn between the advocacy of "no abortions ever", and the position of judging "clinical life" by the standard of "at the beginning of brain activity" similarly to the medical standard of establishing Clinical Death (which would, theoretically, permit abortions prior to the 4th week of Pregnancy).
Regardless of his ongoing consideration of the legitimacy of early abortions (permissible before the onset of brain activity, or Always Wrong?), Badnarik appears to have consistently maintained throughout his campaign that Abortion -- like all Murder Law -- is properly a State's Right's issue.
If, therefore, he comes out with a strong Constitutionalist condemnation of Roe vs. Wade, and the resultant reversion of Abortion Law to the State Legislatures, he will be the 4th out of the last 5 Libertarian Party Presidential Nominees to advocate the overthrow of Roe vs. Wade.
Which is a nice trend to see developing amongst LP Presidential Nominees.
I suppose, then, Mr. Badnarik obviously doesn't know very many Democrats.
But it's nice to see that he recognizes that Partial-Birth Abortion is such a Moral Horror that he (perhaps naively) can't imagine that any rational human being would be so gutturally depraved as to countenance such an atrocity.
Good on ya, Mr. Badnarik.
Ugh. I'll likely never vote Libertarian.
Michael Badnarik supports the abolition of Government Marriage Licenses. This is a different position entirely.
Badnarik's solution would be to return the Institution of Marriage to the Realm of Private/Religious Contract (as it was in the days of Abraham and Sarah, Moses and Zipporah) with the Government serving only as the Enforcer of the terms of Private Contracts.
This is crucial -- because when you get right down to it, Homosexuals do not want lifetime, monogamous, mutual-commitment MARRIAGE. (If they really wanted to form a "Private Union" of Contractual Lifetime Monogamy, I bet I could find and appropriately modify the necessary "Business Partnership Forms" for less than $100 bucks by visiting any OfficeMax in the country). Homosexuals want the Legal Powers, Privileges, and Compulsory Social Acceptance which accrue from GOVERNMENT LICENSE of their "unions".
Take away the Government License, and Homosexual interest in Marriage will drop like a stone.
It seems the LP vote has been relatively stable the past two or three Presidential election cycles (400K ?). What is your feeling about 2004?