95% of the demos probably voted for the tax increase.
Why the free pass for the demos?
You know, that really is a good question if taxes are the real reasons.
Show 'em my motto!
95% of the demos probably voted for the tax increase.
Why the free pass for the demos?
95% of the demos probably voted for the tax increase.
Why the free pass for the demos?
You know, that really is a good question if taxes are the real reasons.
Show 'em my motto!
It's true that they aren't targeting specific Democrats, like they are targeting specific Republicans.
But that's because you expect Democrats to raise taxes. They are not running against the real Republicans, who voted against the tax increase. What these weak Republicans did was go against their own party's leadership and philosophy to support a budget plan that included a tax increase, which the voters had already rejected.
It's sad that it takes Libertarians running to have any challenge to these squishy Republicans. The state G.O.P. should be willing to punish its own.
I'm a Republican. Here in Oregon, the Libertarian Party, while it includes some kooks, actually is building up a pretty good track record in helping to defeat tax increases, sometimes being the only ones out there campaigning against them. They were the people who successfully ran the "No on 28" campaign, traveling to every county in the state.
I sure don't want to lose the state house to the Democrats, but then again, I don't want a liberal majority ruling the house, regardless of party...and that's pretty much what we have now. Liberal Republicans join with Democrats, to create a tax-raising majority, which is unwilling to stand up to the public employee unions.
The Oregon G.O.P. is not well-run, although it is gradually improving, thanks, in part, to the Libertarians raising a stink. This state badly needs fiscal discipline, and I applaud the Libertarians for helping to steer it in that direction.
The same reason the libertarians only bash Bush and Republicans on FR.
Obviously because you pick the races in which you have the best chance of winning. Libertarians are conservative and have a conservative message. Conservative messages obviously don't do well in seats which are already held by Democrats. This is especially true when it comes to things like tax increases or tax cuts.
In my home state of Indiana, the LP fields a candidate for every election. In Oregon, I'm guessing the LP's funds are slightly more limited, and so it picks and chooses the seats at which it thinks it has the best chance of winning.
Because like a three-year old kid throwing a temper tantrum, he wants to "show" those Republicans what will happen to them by throwing the election to the Rats.
Libertarians are losers
Because the evidence, at state and federal levels, shows that Republicans are tax-raising, deficit-increasing, Big Stupid Government-growing weasels.