Posted on 11/09/2006 7:37:02 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
Thursday, October 3, 2002
GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) -- Montana's Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease.
Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.
He made his own concoction by electrically charging a couple of silver wires in a glass of water.
His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago...
...He does not take the supplement any longer, but the skin condition, called argyria, is permanent....
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D - Tester - 198,302 - 49%
R - Burns - 195,455 - 48%
L - Jones - 10,324 - 3%
Before anyone bashes the Libertarians too hard, recall that but for the 3rd party Ralph Nader, ManBearPig would have been elected president in 2000.
Can you do a side by side with Papa Smurf?
Remember him?
all jokes aside, this f'in space cadet may well be responsible for Roe v Wade never being overturned.
think about it.
Good points about Nader. That said, I'm not thrilled with Libertarians...
A picture from his website. I take it it's an older photo.
....and Pelosi called this admin freaks......lmao
Don't be so hard on the guy - I bet most of the people who voted for him would've voted for the democrat if he wasn't there ... clueless is as clueless does ...
It is awful.
The irony of this guy turning the Senate blue...
Somenabitch is blue too!!!! Get out.
You assume libertarians would vote GOP if they had no candidate of their own on the ballot.
In fact, most Libertarians I know (and that's quite a few) are pro-choice.
This dingbat got 10,000 votes in Montana?
I am starting to think we are doomed.
I absolutely love it how you guys laugh and poke fun at Libertarians but when your RINO loses you whine like a toddler and expect subservience from Libertarians.
"In fact, most Libertarians I know (and that's quite a few) are pro-choice."
I've been to his website, and he is pro-life on abortion and pro-choice on euthanasia.
Everyone who thinks that Libertarian voters would have broken for us strongly enough for Burns to have won should remember that this election was largely about foreign and defense policy. While Libertarians agree with us on economic issues, they tend to be isolationist, and unless a particular Libertarian has managed to absorb Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, tend not to think in terms of offensive war as a proper part of defense. They might well have voted for Tester or stayed home if one of their own wasn't on the ballot.
If you can find enough Republicans who voted for Jones as a protest vote that their support would have carried the day, trash them all you want.
I for one would welcome the day when the Libertarians are our main opposition party.
10,000 votes for limiting government versus how many millions of votes cast for bigger government?
You're blaming the wrong people.
how many votes did the libertarian candidate get in the last statewide MT election? compare that to this race - then you'll know.
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