LIBERTARIAN PARTY FOUNDER ENDORSES BUSH

AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL LIBERTARIANS | 10-24-2004 | Dr. John Hospers

[fritzz]

At one time I took a look at the Libertarian's. I didn't stay around to long. On an absolute Utopian view it looks pretty good, but overall there philosophy just won't fly. Most Libertarians, I believe, are frustrated 'Pubs. So, Welcome home to one and all.

[Castro]

A lot of good points in this letter.

Could someone let me know if/when this is confirmed as real??

[bahblahbah]

Um, yahoo search lists only one John Hospers living in CA. If anyone wants to call him up and confirm that would be nice, though I'd bet he wouldn't like to be swarmed with phone calls .

http://phone.people.yahoo.com/py/psPhoneSearch.py?srch=bas&D=1&FirstName=John&LastName=Hospers&City=Los+Angeles&State=CA&Phone=&Search=Yahoo%21+Search

[boycott]

10K lawyers alone equal chaos. Gore tried it to an extent in 2000, but kerry has brought more force with him. We have to stop the hi-jacking of this election and America.

Kerry may get his very own French Revolution over here. :>) People are very sick of lawyers hijacking our system.

[Copernicus]

You are endorsing Mr. Kerry? Bold stroke.

I endorse and will cast my vote for Mr. Badnarik.

However, given the astounding ineptitude of Republicans and the even more astounding criminality of DemocRATs I fully expect Mr. Kerry to claim the White House in a few short days.

Perhaps my use of the Free Republic Search engine is incompetent, but I am unable to find more than a few posts on the topic of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan elections which I believe will be the paradigm for our election in November.

Best regards,

[truth_seeker]

Yet to hear from Harry "blame America first" Browne.

Whata partee.

[aj7360]

"johnjhospers" is currently online on AIM. I'm afraid I don't have the nerve to IM him... not that it's really him.

Any takers?? lol

[OCMike]

Why does this letter look familiar?? Isn't this a compilation of quotes from others??

[FredZarguna]

I was a Libertarian from 1972, (my first voting election) until September 15, 2001. That was the day I heard Harry Brown say on O'Rielly's show that we should deal with OBL by way of the institutions of international law. And that was the end of the LP for me. Badnarik is even worse. Frankly, I had no problem taking the LP pledge that "One must never initiate the aggressive use of force," but it appears that too many L(l)ibertarians have forgotten that when Ayn Rand laid down that law, it had two parts to it, the second of which is, "and when aggressive force is used against one, he must never fail to respond."

There is a difference between Democrats and Republicans. For all of GWB's many faults, and his many failures as a (compassionate) conservative, only a fool could support the LP in this election.

[Stentor]

Congratulations to John Hospers for getting it. It will be hard to fight the Republican v Libertarian ideological battle when even more of us are dead from terrorist attacks and the rest of us are having all of our money taken by the federal government and speaking French or Arabic.

Can't improve on this.

[rineaux]

I hope so. there is only 9 days left till the election. I hope a great portion of Americans who have been sleeping wake up and vote for W. We need/want a landslide. Looks like Hawaii, NJ, MN are starting to wake up.

[OCMike]

Sure would like some AUTHENTICATION on this...

[George Smiley]

Funny you should post that.

I just got an email from the aol email address which gave me the same phone number and confirmed that he wrote the endorsement. (But, of course, that isn't exactly an ironclad authentication...)

I gave him the URL of this thread and asked him if he'd care to discuss with us.

[Federalist_In_Michigan]

Will check later to see if there is any type of authentication for this post...

[fritzz]

Perhaps my use of the Free Republic Search engine is incompetent, but I am unable to find more than a few posts on the topic of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan elections which I believe will be the paradigm for our election in November.

Yea, you've got a point...Jimmy Carter watching over both. Could be some similarities. There were some posts.

Mr. Badnarik, as I remember has run for a few offices, but never won. Young, Good looking, programmer, who instructs a lot for a living. Nothing wrong, but not much of a candidate. So you are really doing is voting against W...obvious.

[Eastbound]

"The LP pretty much lost me when they embraced pacifism instead of non-initiation of force."

I wasn't aware of that. Are you saying the Libertarian will not strike first when he knows a fist is coming at his face? Will a Libertarian shoot first if someone points a loaded pistol at him and knows they are going to pull the trigger?

[headsonpikes]

Thanks for your work in contacting Dr. Hospers.

From what I know of him, this letter fits his worldview.

[HalleysFifth]

L. (not H.) Ron Hubbard was a totalitarian--never anything close to a libertarian in any sense, even if he tried to cloak himself that way.

The Libertarian Party itself has lurched over to the looney, Bill Maherish, hedonistic side, and abandoned their rational, ethical individualism and laissez faire capitalism foundations.

I'm thrilled to hear Dr. Hospers endorse President Bush.

[giotto]

Kerry is a globalist in the sense that the Clintons could never approach.

There's only one difference between Kerry's politics and Hillary's--Hillary is a better politician. She hasn't been as rabidly anti-war recently as Kerry has, because she knows the country is basically conservative. But make no mistake, if Hillary had her way, the UN (headed by her sock puppet husband) would rule the world, and US taxpayers would pay a global income tax. US sovereignty would be gone, its borders would disappear, and the Constitution would be replaced by a global constitution, drafted by a delegation from all nations including Syria, Iran, North Korea and a newly created Palestinian State. Hillary has been planning this all of her adult life, and given the chance, she will do her damnedest to make it happen.