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I wish I could vote Libertarian … but:

1: In our winner-take-all voting system, the only sane strategy is to vote optimally against the major candidate you fear most.

Nowadays, that means choosing between voting against the pacifist totalitarian socialist or against the militarist theocrat capitalist. (I vote against the socialist.)

2: Every Libertarian voter I know personally has a laser-like focus on ending the drug war, presumably for self-interested reasons.

The last time drugs were absolutely legal, a gigantic portion of the country was addicted (40+%? … in the late 1800s).

3: Every loud Paulite Libertarian today seems to be an isolationist, protectionist pacifist black-and-white absolutist thinker with no concept of:
* Wahibbism,
* Twelvers,
* the disasters of 20th Century US isolationism,
* the dangers of gengineered biowarfare agents preparable by bio/med grad students
* today’s 3 Hitlers: Putin, Chavez and Achmadenijad
* the need for pre-emption in the coming technological era of untraceable first bioweapon strikes that are the first sign that your adversary has converted from biomed to biowar
* isolationism looks indistinguishable from weakness … and weakness encourages Hitlerian / Jihadi aggression and attacks, even / especially if by proxy.

Under Paulite/Buchananite foolish isolationism, our adversaries will be encouraged to test the limits of our unwillingness to help our ex-allies in the middle-east, Asia and Europe.

Iran then gets nukes by helping overthrow Musharraf/Bhutto in Pakistan (Iran gets half of Pakistan’s nuclear warheads / missiles in return for helping the Taliban take over) … then Israel is nuked with one or more smuggled Pakistani bombs (a nuke on the WestBank border would be enough to contaminate enough of Israel to cause massive problems, without even smuggling it into TelAviv) … then Israel nukes both Iran and Pakistan, sending countless ecstatic Jihadis to their 72 virgins.

Reasonably assuming the entire middle-east glows radioactively shortly thereafter, the world oil supplies are cut in half,, so ignoring all the dead Israelis (as the isolationists would) the US is still affected as energy and transportation costs double or quadruple or more.

Al Gore is thrilled to see less hydrocarbon consumption (but granted, he won’t be happy at _how_ it came about).

Putin and Chavez will be thrilled as their incomes increase 10-fold (transport/energy costs are not 100% oil$ so they went up a smaller multiple than the $/barrel).

China will be miserable as they are VERY oil/energy pinched and will look at nearly-un-populated Siberia as an opportunity.

China will probably have taken back Taiwan already, but it will have been a heavy-bombardment fight with inaccurate Chinese missiles bombarding the island into submission since the Taiwanese will have stopped the troop-carrier-fleets with weapons the US sold them earlier … much of the world’s electronics production capacity will be damaged (further hurting the IT-heavy US economy already strained by $700+/bbl oil and the insane trade disaster caused by the isolationist nuts)

I could go on like this for a while … but why bother going beyond their first 100-days in office?

Isolationist protectionists scare me more than Hillary in the White House.

I would vote for a Glenn-Reynolds or Neal-Boortz style libertarian for president ahead of anyone else … and I would vote for even a despised socialist ahead of an isolationist in today’s world.

If I trust Hillary to be anything, it’s violent and interventionist.