AND THE WINNER OF THE THIRD PARTY COMPETITION WAS ...

Neal Nuze ^ | 11/4/04 | Neal Boortz

[NotchJohnson]

AND THE WINNER OF THE THIRD PARTY COMPETITION WAS ...

The Libertarian Party.

Throughout the election the media fed us information about Ralph Nader. Ralph this. Ralph that. You hardly knew that the Libertarians were in the race. The results now show that the Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate, received more votes than Nader.

I wonder how the Libertarians would have done if their candidate was willing to protect America from Islamic terrorists?

[KC_Conspirator]

There are no prizes for second place.

[SBOinTX]

That military funding part was referring to taxes.

As for the Patriot act, I'm torn. Is it okay modify the 4th Ammendment because 9/11 changed everything? Or is it the same kind of attack on the Constitution represented by gun control? It is hard to articulate my personal beliefs on this one

[Physicist]

That military funding part was referring to taxes.

Libertarians aren't opposed to all taxes in principle. Even a minimal government must be funded somehow. They're opposed to taxes for activities that are outside of the government's narrow Constitutional mandate.

As for the Patriot act, I'm torn. Is it okay modify the 4th Ammendment because 9/11 changed everything?

9/11 didn't change the fact that we have rights.

(For the record, I'm not a Libertarian party member, but I do wish that the Republican party would adopt some of their principles.)

[Phantom Lord]

The Libertarian Party recognizes the Military as one of the few functions of the federal government.

[Moonman62]

The LP got 376,000 votes, or about .3 per cent. In 2000 they got about .5 per cent. The trend is clear, and should evoke laughter.

[Phantom Lord]

Boortz was a huge Bush supporter and went on the campaign trail with Hannity and others to get out the vote.

[Phantom Lord]

Is it okay modify the 4th Ammendment because 9/11 changed everything?

Please tell me specifically how the Patriot Act modified the 4th amendment.

[WildTurkey]

I wonder how the Libertarians would have done if their candidate was willing to protect America from Islamic terrorists?

I think that this means that those that voted for Bad are idiots.

[SBOinTX]

I'll freely admit that I'm not fully informed on this issue, but I will also say I want to change that. Yesterday you gave me a very informative piece of information on the conservative agenda.

Perhaps there are some similar pieces describing the conservative stance related to any search/seisure modifications in the Patriot act?

[Wallace T.]

If I'm not mistaken, libertarians oppose any government recognition of marriage, monogamous heterosexual or otherwise. With regard to recordation of marriages and marriage licenses, libertarians are closely in accord with the limited government philosophy of the Founders. Marriages were not recorded or licensed by state or local governments until the mid-19th Century, well after the generation of the Framers of the Constitution had passed on. However, the libertarian belief in neutrality with respect to the institution of marriage is contrary to common law concepts in Anglo-American jurisprudence, which regarded the marriage covenant as being different from and having higher standards than business or social associations.

[Phantom Lord]

I have no idea what the actual and real implication of the PA on the 4th amendment is, thats why i asked.

As far as I understand it, there has been NO change to the requirement for a search warrant. Best I can tell is that the feds do NOT have to notify you that one has been granted and executed.

For some reason a lot of people are under the impression that the PA allows the government to secretly search your stuff WITHOUT a warrant. That is NOT true.

Are their flaws in the PA? Do changes need to be made? Find me a single piece of legislation you can't say that about.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

I checked the CNN poll results. They show only the two major parties and Nader. Does anyone know where to look for vote totals for R, D, G, LP, and CP candidates together?

Interesting that the MSM will show Nader and not at least the LP. They validate the no-chance candidacy of Nader, but not that of one of the candidates that wants to radically cut back government power.

[WildTurkey]

The LP got 376,000 votes, or about .3 per cent.

Do you have a source? Nader got about 394k.

[Dante3]

Anyone who supports open borders poses a danger to this country.

[Josh in PA]

You are drunk if you think Toomey would have turned out 100,000 people that didn't vote.

Toomey on the ticket wouldn't have driven out 5,000 more people who were going to vote.

PA was a battleground state. Less than 100 Republicans
(if any at all) stayed home because Toomey got stiffed back in April.

[ZinGirl]

I don't know how Peroutka did. I had checked his website from time-to-time before the election....just to see what he had to say for himself. However, this is what trying to get on his webiste does today:

Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/peroutka2004.com/httpdocs/schedule/includes/db.inc on line 3 Unable to connect to the database server

c'est la vie....

[WildTurkey]

The results now show that the Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate, received more votes than Nader.

I am confused. Results show Nader with 394k and Badnarik with 360k.

[coloradan]

Please check Bush's disagreements with Tom Tancredo and get back to us.

[WildTurkey]

The results now show that the Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate, received more votes than Nader.

I think this guy has been smoking something.

[Moonman62]

I got it from the lp.org web site.