I got flamed, fried, and dyed for saying the same thing a couple of years back on this forum. Leading with the drug issue is akin to a boxer leading with his chin. In other words, you're gonna get knocked out.
$710.96.. The price of freedom.
Boortz had an article on Townhall earlier this week that was dead-on.
Until the Libertarians get off this legalize marijuana crusade, they will never be going anywhere. He said their biggest mistake was that the marijuana issue was always the first one they would talk about to potential voters, and it would immediately turn them off.
If they would focus their party around no federal taxes, personal liberty, private land ownership, etc.. they could make great inroads and become a minor player in U.S. politics. But it's just Marijuana, Marijuana, Marijuana, whenever these guys get any speaking time.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/nb20040618.shtml
There's the article I was referring to.
That should tell you what their driving issue in life is.
I got flamed, fried, and dyed for saying the same thing a couple of years back on this forum. Leading with the drug issue is akin to a boxer leading with his chin. In other words, you're gonna get knocked out.
$710.96.. The price of freedom.
I'm a non-voting small-l libertarian. The issue at the top of my list is repealing the 16th amendment, thus abolishing all slave income tax law. Guns are next, and I am looking forward to the sunset of the AWB. Third is not just pot, but to decriminalize *all* drugs from heroin to asthma medicine, both street drugs and physician-prescribed drugs; adult humans have a natural right to ingest whatever substance they choose.
I personally don't care about marijuana. Let it be legal where people want it to be legal. But first you are going to have to get rid of welfare and drug addiction as a "disability" because I am not paying for it.
You show me that you can do that and I will consider looking at the rest. But until then I will consider that you have your priorities in the wrong order and why would I vote for someone with the wrong priorities?
Let's not even get into national defense.
I've been saying this for years on FR before Boortz ever mentioned it. The LP needs to get away from the Drug War, prostitution, homosexuals, and focus on the meat-and-potato issues that resonate with the majority of people. But noooo....people have a right to get high, you know. And the borders need to be free and open.
They they wonder why they get less than 1/10th of 1% of the vote in elections. Oh sure, they're the "biggest" third-party out there, but look who hold what positions - Village clerk, town water board, a city council member here and a municipal judge there....no senators, reps, governors, not even at the state level.