[LibertyRocks]

If you are unfamiliar with this case you may wish to know that the CPD willfully, and _knowingly_ tried to avoid service of the orders to show cause.

No matter what side of the issue you are on I think we can agree that an organization who would attempt to avoid legal service is not one that should be hosting debates, no matter who funds them or who is in them.

[LibertyRocks]

Ping! Please add to your bump list?

[ImpBill]

Great! Bring all the candidates in. Libertarian, Socialist Party, Green, Constitutional Party, etc. Heck bring in the dog catchers as well. The more the merrier. Should be quite a show and draw record viewers from around the world.

[flashbunny]

Ironic that a libertarian is trying to use the government to force his way into a privately funded event.

[Cultural Jihad]

Yet again the moral-liberal Me-ocrats in the so-called 'party of principle' have shown they are no friend of liberty or the rights of people to live in the kind of society they want to live in.

[Kurt_D]

OK, I really like the Libertarian Party.... but they should cope with the fact, that they are at the moment an irrelevant party. In order for a third party to join a debate it has to get some sort of popular support (e.g. Perot and the Reform Party).

[familyop]

Ah, the lawyers' anarchist party with its dream for a borderless nation of lawsuits speaks again! Anarchists haven't changed at all since the early 1900s, and they continue to support their friends in that other Party. And this is my polite way of saying it.

[A2J]

I think Bush should seize this opportunity to make a stand in inviting Nader and the Libertarian Party to this week's debate to see Kerry's attitude. Afterall, it has been Kerry filing suits all over the country in an attempt to bar Nader from being placed on state ballots.

Bush could pull a "Reagan" and insist on their inclusion or threaten to back out.

[familyop]

Folks, the Libertarian Party wants to eliminate "...all restrictions on immigration..." That's in its official Platform. There are other positions that extremely few of us would agree with, but read carefully through their Platform to find those.

See it under "Transitional Action" (which is under "Immigration").

http://lp.org/issues/platform/immigrat.html

This is another very polite method I use to disagree.

[Congressman Billybob]

This is a tempest in a teapot. In 1976 I tried a case all the way to the US Supreme Court on the issue of the exclusion of both Gene McCarthy and Lester Maddox from the Presidential Debates of that year. As a matter of constitutional theory, the Libertarians are absolutely right, especially with the wrinkle that public facilities paid for by all the taxpayers are being used for these exclusionary debates.

With that said, this case is going nowhere. If the trial court issues an order against the debates, the Circuit Court of Appeals will reverse it in a trice. And they will use my old, failed case as a precedent.

Congressman Billybob

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[Jonathon Spectre]

How utterly reprehensible to see people posting on FREE Republic saying that a "fringe candidate" who will be on the ballot in every state running for President should be denied the opportunity to debate.

Thanks, all you "The Republicans is mah TEAM!" nitwits for reminding me that so-called "conservatives" can be just as hypocritical and ignorant as the most mindless leftist shill.

[Political Junkie Too]

In today's activist judicial world, where the breaks always fall Democrat, who's to say that this isn't really a cover story by the Democrats to weasel out of the third debate so as not to give George Bush one more national stage to shine on?

-PJ

[dAnconia]

Liberty, I'm on your side here.
The ASU debates aside, the US taxpayer is raped too much by the two parties in their national conventions.
Not to mention matching funds for campaigns.
If anyone can give me a rational reason why MY taxes are spent to support ONLY two parties, please speak up.
My point here is that the government should pay NOTHING for anyone's campaign for election to any public office.
Period.

[Commie Basher]

Why are Bush and Kerry such frightened wimps that they fear openly debating third party challengers?

[A CA Guy]

Some poor judge gave them a hearing? Woop de doo!

[Commander8]

"No matter what side of the issue you are on I think we can agree that an organization who would attempt to avoid legal service is not one that should be hosting debates, no matter who funds them or who is in them."
Hear, Hear!!!
I'm not voting for Cobb, or Badnarik or Nader, but I absolutely believe it is important to allow alternative party candidates to appear at these events. That way we can have real debate instead of bipartisan "blah, blah, blah."

[Tanniker Smith]

Hey, this is actually going forward?

I first heard about this early, early Sunday morning. I put on WABC radio in the car about 1:30am. I didn't know that Art Bell was on. I left him on because it was a short drive, and this was what they were talking about.

TS

[xzins]

If the Libertarians are included, the 2 real candidates should back out.

I'm not interested in what an obviously losing party has to say.

[Enterprise]

Oh hell yes. Invite the Potatarian. He can promise two pot plants in every garage, and tax credits for Twinkies.

[weegee]

"I'm happy so far with the way things are going," an attorney for the Libertarian Party, David Euchner, said in an interview yesterday. "He did not have to sign that order. The fact that he did is a good sign."

Since the judge did not "have to" it sounds like judicial activism. The same thing we have been complaining against.

[hosepipe]

Excellent....
Libertarians might pose the most important questions or answers.
The debates are a dog and pony show.. the zero wits will still vote democrat but a few half wits might take the bait.. and the liberatrians might reel in some big ones.. the republicans are into catch and release.
I.E. they released big bubba that huge arkansaw catfish and the leach on its back Sandy Burglar.. and many more other big fish... If you can't buy it frozen or fresh at the politician store the republicans don't want it..

Yeah the libertarians just might make fishing for bottom feeders, a good sport again...