Posted on 03/19/2002 1:45:52 PM PST by mac_truck
Carla Howell won 308,860 votes in her Libertarian 2000 bid for U.S. Senate challenging 38-year incumbent Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts.
Campaigns and Elections magazine recognized her campaign as the most successful third party U.S. Senate race in 2000.
I'm not positive (trying to find the stats), but I believe she may have even beat out the Pubbie candidate for Senate in 2000. If not, it was a near even match. Regardless, the Pubs had pretty much thrown in the towel in this state.
I'm sure the Tax Repeal Initiative is going to be BIG news in Mass. And I don't know about you, but if I had a candidate that would leave a few thousand dollars in my pocket every year, I would vote for 'em. She has a VERY good chance in this race.
Yeah, a bunch of fat queer foot soldiers and hysterical dykes heaped abuse on signers of the petition.
They physically blocked signers from the petition. The funny part is that they can scream at you if you are a normal person, they can even physically harass you but if you raise your voice or one fingr to them, its a freakin' hate crime.
Since when was making ME a second-class citizen doing anything about hate?
As I said above, the libs will use ANY means neccesary.
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I don't thing that is exactly the case. I have worked for Carla and the libertarians on a couple of issues and on 85% of the issues I think that most conservitives would have no problem with their stance on the issues.
The other 15% I think that they are anarchists, with a rather strange view of the Constitution, probably because few of them have read the Federalist Papers, to much Tom Jeff and not enough Madison and Hamilton. On the whole I tend to think of them as Conservitives who haven't grown up yet and like to smoke dope.
Do you really think that the Massachusetts media, led by the Boston Globe, and his DemocRAT opposition would leave it at that? If Romney mentioned it once, the Massachusetts media and the DemocRATs would mention it every damned hour of every damned day between now and election day. And if you don't believe that, I think you should get an education.
That's the most hilarious aspect of the MA idiots. They continue to vote in people who raise taxes and then they move to NH to avoid the taxes and vote in people who will increase taxes in NH.
For Gerald Amirault of Massachusetts, who got, for crimes that never took place, a prison sentence far longer than the one Abbott got for murdering a fellow prisoner, there are, of course, no hopes of a parade of celebrities urging his release. Neither a Maoist, nor a murderer, nor a writer who saw in prison a metaphor for the corrupt nature of American society, nor, above all, a criminal guilty of the charges against him, his is not a case likely to have commended itself to the attention of literary society, as Jack Abbott's did back in the 1980s. His sole revolutionary act was to refuse, as his similarly guiltless mother and sister did, to "take responsibility" for molesting minors, and go and sit in classes for sex offenders.Literary society might, of course, if it were disposed, have found much of interest in Gerald Amirault, his prosecutors, and the corrupted Supreme Judicial Court that has kept him imprisoned. For those interested, we have the case of the state's current governor, Jane Swift. Six months after her own parole board unanimously called for commutation of his sentence--and pointed out, in a way unprecedented for such a body, the ludicrous charges, the grave doubts as to the justice of this prosecution--Gov. Swift has still been unable to bring herself to act one way or another.
A variety of reasons have been offered--one being that she had promised the accusing children and their families she would make no decision over the Christmas holidays, in order to avoid causing pain, whatever that decision might be. Then the governor was busy finding a willing running mate for the gubernatorial election in November--a grueling effort evidently, considering the number of her choices who decided it might be best to let the opportunity pass. Now there is talk that the scandal of child abuse charged to priests in Massachusetts could cause the governor to decide the political risk is too great to agree to commutation for Gerald.
The rest of that column is at http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=100001695.
A site dedicated to spreading the facts about the Amirault case is here: http://cltg.org/cltg/amirault/amiraults.htm.
I hope Romney is willing to take some action on this travesty. The way Swifty sleazed out on it is disgusting.
It amazes me that people think the two are exclusive, or think it is somehow useful to elect Leftwing Socialist Democrats as a way to "teach" moderate Republicans lessons. Simple Rule: Always vote for most conservative candidate in primary. Always vote Republican in general election, unless Democrat is definitely more conservative. A third party vote is a vote for the major party you like least. And if no Republican is running, get in there and run yourself.
It is a consequence of having an overly weak GOP.A properly constituted GOP party in Massachusetts that challenged the dominant leftwing ideology and went after the Irish voting block could dominate or at least be competitive in Mass. politics. But without political competition (like with any monopoly) the consumers/voters end up under-served and fed lies.
The distinction you see in initiatives and legislative voting patterns is also seens Cali. It tells you that actual voters are more conservative than their Representatives. If this is pointed out to people they would change voting patterns. But media bias keeps them in the dark and/or cows them into voting for Leftists. Again, GOP competitiveness could break this destructive haibt.
Good one! ... Good luck on that... it is a plus to have a big Dem field and a clear GOP candidate. Didnt Romney run in 1994 vs Kennedy???
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