As John Sidney Walker McCain and Barack NMI1 Obama begin the run for the White House, I’d propose another alternative, who represents a Real Change: former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for the Presidency in 2008.
There’s a new sidebar item, with photo and linkage, that will adorn this old blog until the elections are over.
I’ve thought for years that the US really needs more than two political parties; at minimum, a third-party not-one-issue option to the two-party system we currently have. There’s really not a nickel’s worth of difference between the current two parties; the only choices offered by them are whether you prefer death by faux patriotism, or by obscenely high taxation.
The cure for bad governance is surely not by changing flavors of bad governance. It’s certainly not by more governance. I think the cure for bad government is to have less government. Period.
The Libertarians are misunderstood and misconstrued in popular opinion and in the mainstream press. In fact, Libertarians are:
- Unabashed capitalists, but with social consciences.
- Unabashed defenders of individual freedom and liberty.
- Unabashed advocates of individual accountability, given 2 above.
- Unabashed advocates of the Bill of Rights, for all.
- Unabashed believers in the resourcefulness of the American people to survive, nay, to prevail, with minimal government.
So, as the Repubs and Dems duke it out, and as the lapdog press hangs on their every word, I’m firmly and irrevocably supporting Bob Barr in 2008.
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