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To: BikerNYC
If a Right-to-Life voter tells me she's voting for that party's candidate because the issues the candidate stresses are very important to her (and it doesn't have to be because she believes abortion is murder, it could be because she thinks the issue belongs out of federal hands) and a Libertarian voter tells me the same thing about the issues her party's candidate streeses, I take them at their word and think the both are quite justified in voting as they do.

My point is that Libertarian voters are not typically focused on a single issue like a right to life voter. There's a range of issues for most Libertarians. Maybe there's Liberatarian voters who think it's absolutely imperative that we legalize all drugs, and everything else is of secondary importance, but I think they're the exception. In general, I don't think any one issue assumes the same importance in their minds as abortion does for a right to life voter. So it becomes a question of do you get your way on some of them or hold out for every one of them? The ones holding out for every one of them are not moving things in their direction, they're doing the opposite. The fact is that the entire Libertarian agenda is never going to be implemented. There's these Libertarians who actually believe it is.

I totally disagree that the two parties are indistinguishable though that can be true for certain candidates.

230 posted on 11/08/2002 3:04:46 PM PST by lasereye
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To: lasereye
In general, I don't think any one issue assumes the same importance in their minds as abortion does for a right to life voter.

Best I remember, we were supposed to vote for Rs so we could apoint judges that would overturn RoevWade.

234 posted on 11/08/2002 3:18:03 PM PST by carenot
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To: lasereye
There's a range of issues for most Libertarians. Maybe there's Liberatarian voters who think it's absolutely imperative that we legalize all drugs,

As a matter of fact, most libertarians I know are opposed to abusing drugs. They also oppose the WOD because they are consistent in their philosophy that human beings own themselves and that there is no LEGITIMATE power existing among men that allows force to be used against people who are not violating another persons rights just because people find their practices objectionable.

They believe that the legitimate role of government in a free society is to defend the rights of it's citizens. That is why they oppose the WOD. On principle, a dirty word around most Republicans on this forum.

Of course there is the slight matter of fact that the drug war doesn't work, but that is a different matter.

236 posted on 11/08/2002 3:24:23 PM PST by Protagoras
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