Wow. I would never have thought Lantos was a holocaust victim. Watching him on Waco: Rules of Engagement made me think he might have been a perpetrator, though. Creepy, creepy guy.
I know people who have personal knowledge of him.
[I lived in his district for years]
-- They all concur on creepy.
I share your assessment of Lantos.
Amazing how some would vote for him over a person favoring freedom and liberty, especially when there is no GOP challenger of any seriousness.
My basic philosophical political outlook is libertarian but I vote GOP in any case where there is a GOP candidate with any remote chance of winning. I believe in the GOP and its ability to effectively bring a traditional conservative government back to America.
I have in the past, and will continue to do so, blasted the official Libertarian party for running candidates that effectively put Democrats in power, e.g. GOP Sen. Slade Gorton in Washington state lost to leftist Maria Cantwell by less than the number of votes the Libertarian candidate siphoned off from Gorton. It is in these cases that I really get upset with the L.P. However the majority of libertarian principles are more closely aligned with the traditional conservatism that our country was founded upon.
There has been a lot of bashing of Americans of Arab descent, of Americans of the Islamic faith and of the Islamic religion on FR. I think it is unwise, politically, to have conservatism identified with racism and religious bigotry and hatred. To see people extolling Lantos over this LP candidate soley on his ethnicity and religious faith is a despicable situation.