Posted on 05/22/2008 8:55:57 AM PDT by Turbopilot
Playing the Spoiler Role?
The Libertarians say they're not out to ruin McCain's chances. But they could cost him.
At Tuesday night's Libertarian debate, the party's most celebrated presidential candidate wasn't even there. In fact, he isn't even a Libertarian. And yet his name was invoked almost a dozen times in the course of the hourlong debate leading up to this weekend's Libertarian convention.
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Newsweek = Liberal crap...move on...nothing to see here.
So tired of this election. Screw em all.
Precisely. As much as I love my fellow Libertarians, we aren’t going to be spoilers this time around. We have a better chance going to Europe and running our candidate there.
Exactly!
Hear Hear!!!!
Yep. When a candidate loses, they have no one to blame but themselves. The voter is not to blame.
Yes, the Libertarians could ruin McCain’s chances at the Presidency. My only concern about this is that we’ll then have Obama or Clinton picking our judges and putting ‘universal health care’ in place (which we will then be stuck with forever).
“Will the Libertarians Spoil McCain’s Chances?”
Hope so!
Well, it’s easy enough to fathom Newsweaks purpose in writing this. “They wish!” They want to stir up trouble. But Ron Paul is no Ross Perot. He will appeal to Paulbots, but not to a wider circle of voters.
Perot did as well as he did because people were more naive in 1996, more inclined to believe the media. Also, because of Bush Senior’s stupid, stupid “read my lips” statement, followed up by his foolish credulity that the Democrats would not punish him for signing their tax rise bill.
No, as already noted, the real problem is that McCain is a weak, lousy, liberal candidate. Oddly enough, the left wing press won’t be able to use that argument during the election campaign, however. Instead, they will predictably portray him as a crazy, senile, right wing warmonger, and let the conservative base worry about such things as McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy and the Gang of 14.
McCain is spoiling the Libertarian’s chances!
I agree. Conservatives have already lost the election. The fact is, we lost elections we thought we had won.
The only difference that I can see between Dims and Pubs, is that they like to spend money on different things and violate different rights. Anymore though, they seem to have agreed to spend money on everything and violate all the rights.
“The only thing spoiling McCain’s chances is McCain’s liberalism.”
Absolutely true. When considering Reverend Wright, William Ayres, a thoroughly unlikeable whiny wife, the most liberal track record of any current Senator, the lack of experience and the inability to dispatch another thoroughly unlikeable wife in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama should be easily defeated in the fall. If McCain loses to this chump, he should be ashamed. And we’ll all be the worse for it.
What happened to Ralph Nadar Mr. Newsweek ? Total silence of sicko Wright,Ayers and other but suddenly this is HUGE story re Bob Barr. Just more liberal trash bias.
What happened to Ralph Nadar Mr. Newsweek ? Total silence of sicko Wright,Ayers and other but suddenly this is HUGE story re Bob Barr. Just more liberal trash bias.
The short answer is Yes.
The long answer is Yes.
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