Posted on 08/25/2014 8:01:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fox News recently had a political story noting that in several close Senate races in red states, Libertarian candidates might keep the Republican nominee from winning seats held by Democrats today. In the last three election cycles, liberal Democrats in Senate races have won races with less than half the vote, and with the majority of the vote going to the Republican nominee and candidates more conservative than that nominee.
In 2008, Mark Begich won in Alaska with 47.8% of the vote, while Republican Ted Stevens earned 46.6% and Bob Bird of the Alaska Independence Party, endorsed by Ron Paul, won 4.2%. Al Franken in Minnesota won 41.99% of the vote, while Republican Norm Coleman won 41.98% and Dean Barkley, a Perot and Ventura supporter, got 15.1% of the vote. Jeff Merkely in Oregon got 48.9% of the vote, while Gordon Smith received 45.6% and Constitution Party candidate Dave Brownlow won 5.2% of the vote. In 2012, the same pattern emerged.
How much have leftist Democrats prospered by the division of conservative votes? Consider that Democrat Jon Test in Montana in 2006 got 49.2% of the vote, while Republican Conrad Burns got 48.3% of the vote and Libertarian Stan Jones got 2.6%, and then in 2012, Democrat Jon Tester won 48.6% of the vote, while Republican Denny Rehberg got 44.9% while Libertarian Dan Cox received 6.1%. Tester won his seat and then six years later defended it because his opposition was split.
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No, laws can’t and don’t make people moral. Morality comes from God and is internal.
Laws can only work from the outside and they can’t even change a person, as the number of people who blatantly flaunt them demonstrate.
What they do is provide for justice and protection when those without morals engage in immoral activity. When done right, it provides for a peaceful and safe society.
I’m 65 years old and neither drink nor do drugs. What’s interesting about a child is they typically cannot refute the words of an opponent but must turn to ad hominem attacks.
All I’ve done is accurately quote Reagan on libertarianism as it relates to conservatism and I’m not backing up an inch on that. Your frustration is you have no way to alter a syllable of his words. In your frustration you attack me because you simply don’t know what else to do. A sober grown-up would know what to do. Maybe one day you’ll figure it out. I have my doubts.
Who needs "protection" from, say, a guy sitting in his den smoking a joint?
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