Libertarian may run again

Billings Gazette ^ | May 21, 2003 | Gazette State Bureau

[Roscoe]

HELENA -- Libertarian Stan Jones of Bozeman said Tuesday he is strongly considering running for governor next year.

"I'm going to do a little more exploring," he said. "Right now, all indications are that I will run. I need to see how much support I can get."

He ran as a Libertarian candidate for governor in 2000, getting 2 percent of the vote, and as the party's standard-bearer for the U.S. Senate in 2002, polling 3 percent, despite spending very little money.

Jones gained national attention as a U.S. Senate candidate in 2002 because his skin had turned blue-gray. Jones began taking colloidal silver, a natural anti-bacterial of silver, in 1999 because he feared the disruptions from Y2K might put the supplement in short supply because of what some feared would be a worldwide disruption of computer systems.

Jones said he hopes he will be able to participate in all televised debates.

[Roscoe]

[AngrySpud]

It's been a year; is the guy still blue? Still taking the silver?

[Jhoffa_]

He looks like a corpse..

How ironic that he represents the Libertarian party.

[cmsgop]

He is the guy that OD'd on Collidal Silver.

[Roscoe]

I think it's forever, kinda like an internal tattoo.

[Roscoe]

It could be interesting if he was in a debate broadcast with a bluescreen background.

[Vigilanteman]

Jones gained national attention as a U.S. Senate candidate in 2002 because his skin had turned blue-gray. Jones began taking colloidal silver, a natural anti-bacterial of silver, in 1999 because he feared the disruptions from Y2K might put the supplement in short supply because of what some feared would be a worldwide disruption of computer systems.

Jones said he hopes he will be able to participate in all televised debates. In the 2002 Senate race, Baucus refused to participate in televised debates unless all four candidates, including the two minor party ones, got to take part.

Born near Bozeman, Jones, 64, graduated from Montana State University and went into the U.S. Air Force, serving in Europe and Vietnam before retiring as a lieutenant colonial. He worked in the shipbuilding industry in Seattle. Jones has owned his own businesses and taught classes for the University of Washington, UCLA and MSU

[Roscoe]

http://www.splcenter.org/cgi-bin/goframe.pl?refname=/intelligenceproject/ip-4x9.html

[Malcolm]

Libertarians present no realistic alternative, and in close races, throw the election to the Dem candidate, who if I were a LP, would want in ofc least of all candidates. If they would agree not to run in any race except where a Green Party candidate also ran, I could accept that. But in 3-way races, forget it. The only role they play there is spoiler, as they have a snowball's chance of winning anything.....

[thmiley]

But the downside is that the Repubs have pretty much demonstrated that they're not going to give us what we need.

The Republicans are drinking the purple kool-aid, too.

So, what are our alternatives? Perhaps enough races getting tossed to the Dems will demonstrate to the Repubs that they had better start shrinking government.

That's the way the Socialist Party was able to infiltrate their agenda into the Dem/Repub parties. They became enough of a pain in the a** to the other parties that they had to assimilate the Socialists in order to keep power.

[Libloather]

Liberteens with a border? Beware...

[DPB101]

A 5% rightward shift in one half of one body of the three branches of government (i.e. five more Republican Senate seats) would mean the tax cut would be $750 billion, not $350 billion, every judicial nominee Democrats are filibustering would be sitting on the bench and SCOTUS would be safe from the machinations of Ruth Bader Ginsbergs for the next 30 years.

That is how close it is. Yet you want to toss that all aside and elect more Democrats to teach Republicans a lesson.

Makes no sense to me.

[thmiley]

I see. So what you're saying is that we have to wait until the Republicans get a filibuster-proof majority before they're going to find their backbone?

Tax cuts don't mean squat if government is still growing! Recall the No Child Left Behind Act? It was written by Ted Kennedy and signed by President Bush. It vastly expanded the power of the Department of Education. That's the same Department of Education that the Repubs promised to eliminate in the Contract With America.

I don't see a sufficient difference between the two parties to care who gets elected. I will care if the Republicans stop this new tone crap, drag the Democrats around by the balls and embrace fully the idea of radically smaller government.

Until then, the Repubs are just pretenders.

[DPB101]

The GOP has not had the power the Democrat Party has in my lifetime or the lifetime of most Americans. So to claim both parties are the same (as both the Libertarian Party and the Communist Party USA do) is absurd. The mantra is designed to elect Democrats.

Government has grown since there was an American government. As population and wealth increase, so does the size of government. There is no political support anywhere to eliminate the programs which case the most growth--Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

What is important is how large government is compared to GDP. GOP policies reduce the government cut of the ecomony . Democrats enlarge it. The more left wing you go, the more GDP is eaten by government.

You want Charlie Rangel writing the tax code in the next Congress to "teach the GOP a lesson" you go for it. I don't care. The LP is irrelevent now. The third party next time will be clearly on the left. The days of Reform or the LP pretending to be for limited government are over. Both have been exposed as frauds (Reform by CFR, the LP by the Libertarian/ANSWER alliance against the Iraq War).

[Roscoe]

[Mr. Mojo]

His skin kinda looks like that of the spoiled-brat girl in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory who ate something she wasn't supposed to and then blew up like a blueberry.

[Roscoe]

[Mr. Mojo]

LOL....Yep, that's her.

[jmc813]

You already posted that one. Drinking?

[Roscoe]

His campaign literature uses a different picture.