I Was a Card-Carrying Libertarian: Confessions of a Black Sheep Republican
I would love to see a Ron Paul debate with Dennis Kucinich live blogged by Stephen in his Vodkapundit persona.
In California, it struck me that there were Libertarian Party members who liked being big fish in a small pond, so I left.
GWB’s rhetorical incapacity led me to Perot whose platform had much in common with the later Contract With America and at a party with lots of Libertarians who never voted, I got them enthusiastic about voting idealistic Republicans into office. (Newt’s putting the Contract in a tear out TV Guide page was brilliant. Mad proselytizing easy).
We need to convince a lot more of the corrupt and/or spineless Republican officeholders to retire and vote in tough libertarian Republicans instead.
My candidate didn’t pander on the Jonathan Pollard issue when before the Jewish Republicans. As a senator, he wanted to investigate campaign finance malfeasance in both parties which irritated Lott and lost him a seat on the Armed Services Committee, and he became an actor after helping a whistleblower fight a corrupt state government. Also, he volunteered to help Scooter Libby, a man he’d never met because he thought what was being done to him was unjust.
Plus, when pissed, his scowl and growl would make even Putin pee. a definite plus for a commander in chief, makes war less likely.
The young JFK made Khruschev think he could be rolled, and Slick Willie gave Osama the same impression. Our national nice guyism also fooled the Japanese until too late a Japanese Admiral said: “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled her with a terrible resolve.” Better to have the scariness up front. When our military was in fierce warrior mode (the march into Baghdad) Khaddafi gave up his weapons.
Electing a potentially scary Prez would avoid those kinds of “misunderstandings” about how “soft” we are.
DON’T TREAD ON ME!!!!! GRRRRRR!!!!
Just saying
