Now That Bush Has Sold Us Out... What are we going to do about it? (vanity)

[Timesink]

Where is the 98% figure coming from? Was there a survey where the respondents could freely select from the 'nuts', 'whacco', 'weird' and 'scary' boxes?

I apologize; I completely miswrote that sentence. I didn't mean to say that the public thinks the IDEAS themselves are nuts, but rather that everything the Libertarian Party has to say is nuts by definition. That is to say, they think capital-L Libertarians are a little loony.

The blame for this lies squarely at the feet of the LP itself; their entire public relations staff ought to be burned at the stake, because every press release they put out seems to have a tone somewhere between "nyah nyah, [insert current president here] screwed up, we were riiight!" and a Lyndon Larouche conspiracy theory document.

Not that changing PR strategies would suddenly raise the LP to 20% in the polls; I stand by my theory of the inherent unworkability of third parties under our system of government. But really, making the public stop thinking you're a bunch of crazies is the first step. At the very least, they'd be far more likely to at least consider LP policy positions.

[BillofRights]

Thank you so much for directing my attention to the news about that huge helium bureaucracy that the government dismantled. I had no idea. There goes my argument over the ever-expanding federal government. I stand corrected.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

I may disappoint you, but I don't call myself a 'libertarian' - I happen to favor, among other things, universal military service, significant import duties and strict immigration control. But, seriously, do you have any example of 'nutty' libertarian ideas? I disagree with some of theirs but I find debating them to be intellectually stimulating. Calling someone else's views 'nuts' has no value and does not bring us one inch closer to the ultimate truth. However, it does mark those who use such labels as unworthy of being respected or even taken seriously.

I rarely heard people stating that the libertarians were 'nuts' because [...]. I do know that most who state that the libs are 'nuts' have no idea what the libertarians stand for but were told that they were nuts and, absent any first-hand information, simply repeated what they were told - which would place them into the ever-popular and always in-the-majority 'sheeple' crowd.

[palo verde]

hi vrwc
libertarian ideas don't sound nutty to me
I walked on broken glass to vote straight GOP in 2000 election
I'll vote Libertarian in future
I am small l libertarian
Love, Palo

[antidemocommie]

America 2050

Bush had better push the NWO agenda hard while he can because he is not looking good for the coming election. Like dad, he has pissed off millions of Conservatives.