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Some final thoughts on Tuesday's election
Las Vegas review-Journal ^ | 2 nov 08 | VIN SUPRYNOWICZ

Posted on 11/02/2008 4:37:37 AM PST by rellimpank

In Tuesday's presidential election, I know who I "should" vote for.

I disagree with the Libertarian Party platform's endorsement of the current congressional abdication of responsibility to control immigration. (Don't we have the same right to control access to our welfare programs as we have to block some stranger from breaking down our door and sleeping on our couch?)

I further disagree with this year's choice of standard-bearer Bob Barr -- who has violated the Libertarian platform (both the real one and the current, "airbrushed" version) by putting people in prison for exercising their constitutional right to traffic in "controlled" plant extracts and subsequently done nothing to get them out.

Nonetheless, Mr. Barr's party has been right on the Big Banker Bailout, right on gun rights, right on medical liberty, right on school choice, part-way right on tax cuts, right on too many other issues to count.

You'll also watch local Nevada TV stations in vain looking for any prominent mention of the fact that Libertarian VP nominee Wayne Allen Root is Nevada's only favorite so

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; bobbarr; constitutionparty; elections; libertarian; mccain; obama; suprynowicz
--Vin joins the real world--
1 posted on 11/02/2008 4:37:37 AM PST by rellimpank
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The thing is, often in life we don't do what we "should." Remember that colorless, unexciting person your mom thought would be the perfect marriage match for you?

Nope. Got her number?

2 posted on 11/02/2008 4:44:51 AM PST by CE2949BB (I voted.)
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To: CE2949BB
"colorless"??

That's racist!

3 posted on 11/02/2008 5:25:11 AM PST by phrogphlyer (Vote for Sarah!!)
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To: rellimpank
Vin, a hard-core libertarian, has more common sense than many Republicans who, feeling dissed by W, decided to vote for Barr.
4 posted on 11/02/2008 8:38:08 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (ACORN is a criminal enterprise)
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To: rellimpank

“I have only one marginally effective way to tell those who have spent the past three months libeling and trashing Sarah Palin — and with her, every “regular American” who owns a gun or goes to church and lives outside their oh-so-correct urban enclaves of Washington, New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles — where to shove it. And that’s to vote against the communist sympathizer who would make legally owned self-defense weapons as rare as whooping cranes, and for a true American hero — to vote a Republican presidential ticket for the first time in my life.”

This election IS the most important one in our lifetime. Sensible people understand that Obama must be stopped from joining the Dem triuvirate of Obama-Reid-Pelosi, to keep them from destroying our country. The only way to do it is to VOTE for McCain/Palin — this is not the time to make meaningless statements by voting third party, which will have the net effect of electing Obama.


5 posted on 11/02/2008 11:06:37 PM PST by FocusNexus ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: rellimpank

6 posted on 11/03/2008 6:07:18 AM PST by Undertow ("I have found some kind of temporary sanity...")
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