NO kidding, I made the mistake of voting my conscience on Bush I's re-election; thought no way Clinton could win!
I voted for Harry Brown, a self-made millionaire and fiscal conservative. If you had heard his acceptance speech at the Libertarian convention, you would have liked to vote for him too..... But the libertarian party platform is right on target. You don't commit a crime unless you hurt someone else, (yes Enron qualifies). No illegal drugs (if your over 21). And a LOT LESS GOVERNMENT.
Thinking the much abused "Smurf", the disowned Druid spitter, and "I only refer to myself in the 3rd person" Rick Stanley. Granted, it is exactly like judging all Republicans by the antics of John McCain and Olympia Snowe... but that point is lost on most people.
The heck with all the good points in a philosophy, just bash it. De riguerre around here.
The LP platform is NO illegal drugs, period. No age criteria is mentioned. It is fundamentally against LP principles to set an arbitrary GOVERNMENT SANTIONED age limit on activities that do not harm others.
See... Badnarik will obviously not make nearly the difference that Perot made, but its still a threat in such a close election. I'm just trying to make sure that conservatives aren't going to abandon Bush because of fiscal issues the way they did his father. This election is getting a little too close for comfort.