Ron Paul Done, Where To Go?
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
If you have been an ardent supporter of Ron Paul's campaign for President, the road ends with the coronation on Mitt Romney at the Republican National Convention.
So where do you go? Romney? Obama? Or, Gary Johnson?
If it's a matter of principles, and the principles are for liberty, you aren't going to get what you want voting for Romney or Obama. Simple as that. Gary Johnson is the one who carries the message in this election.
Labels: Barack Obama, Gary Johnson, Mitt Romney, Republican National Convention, Ron Paul
posted by Mike Kole @ 11:41 AM,
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Libertarian Party Congratulates President Barack Obama
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
“Congratulations to President Barack Obama on his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States," says Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath. "I think all Americans ultimately want what libertarians want—peace, prosperity and freedom. If President Obama and the 111th and 112th Congresses succeed in bringing us all that, they will truly be heroes to this nation."
“However, because so many people, including libertarians, are skeptical that they will do so with the current and proposed public policies," says Redpath, "the Libertarian Party will continue to exist and grow, and propose and diligently work for the policies that we think will bring this nation peace, prosperity and freedom.”
“I hope President Obama is extremely serious about terminating government programs that are found to be ineffective, as he stated in his inaugural address," Redpath continues. "He’ll have to be to succeed in doing that. If fair judgments are made about all federal government programs, we should see a reduction in the size of the federal government that the Republican Party was never able to achieve.”
“I also was heartened to see President Obama speak of respect for market economies and responsibility to oneself before responsibility to the nation and the world," says Redpath. "But, to induce the American people to be more responsible, they will need to be given more freedom from government coercion. Responsibility and freedom are the two sides of the same coin.”
“President Obama has distinguished himself as a great orator, and in that regard, I respectfully ask him to do one thing: not to cheapen the word ‘freedom,’ as so many of his predecessors have done. While I am not suggesting that the United States become something other than a democratic republic, past presidents have suggested that because we have a democracy that we are 'free.' Freedom means living one’s life as one chooses, as long as one does not harm other people or their property, and the simple existence of democracy does not guarantee that. Only proper public policies will," Redpath explains.
“If President Obama pursues policies of economic freedom, which is the historical fundamental reason of this world’s prosperity, and personal freedom, we will have a prosperous, harmonious and just society—and he would go down as a great President,” says Redpath.
There are many things Libertarians can hope to see from the Obama Administration: The elimination of programs; an end to the Patriot Act; an end to the wasteful War on Drugs; a swift draw-down from Iraq, among others.
Our national trend has been towards ever larger government, and it is easy to suspect that the Obama Administration will give us just that. And, as with the outgoing Bush Administration, we learned that our hopes for delivering on areas of agreement Libertarians share with Republicans went without being delivered upon, it could as well happen here.
But let us work to promote the areas where we have common ground with Democrats. Who knows? We might just get government moving in our direction this time around.
If the new Administration fails to deliver, let us remind our friends who voted for Barack Obama that elected Libertarians do deliver- especially on liberty and freedom. It's in our name.
Labels: Barack Obama, inaugural address
posted by Mike Kole @ 2:38 PM,
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Barr Polls Well in Ohio
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Bob Barr is taking a big chunk of votes away from McBama in our neighbor state to the East. From the Sandusky Register Online:
Libertarian Barr close to double digits in Ohio
Friday August 29 2008, 11:08am
A Zogby International poll released Aug. 22 showed Libertarian Bob Barr is drawing support from 8 percent of the Ohio's voters. (The poll placed Barack Obama at 41 percent and John McCain at 36 percent, Ralph Nader at 1 percent and "Not Sure/Other" at 13 percent.)It's just one poll, but members of the Ohio Libertarian Party are pleased and hope the poll numbers show they can become a player in state politics.
8 percent is going to be about 4 times the margin of victory. It suggests that McCain and Obama are failing to win over Americans, and are off-base on some keys issues with voters.
Can't wait to see how Barr's doing here in Indiana!
Update: Barr is currently polling at 7% here in Indiana, with McCain at 40%, Obama at 39%. Zogby shows both Ohio and Indiana as undecided right now. Here's a link to Zogby's 50-state daily polling map.
Labels: Barack Obama, Bob Barr, John McCain, Libertarian Party, Ohio, Zogby International poll
posted by Mike Kole @ 5:25 PM,
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Paying For The Opposition
Thursday, August 14, 2008
If you are a Libertarian, you are still paying to subsidize the Republicans and Democrats, and their conventions. Where are the moral objections, from either of those parties, on the grounds that it is wrong to be forced to fund one's political opponents? Where are the small government Republicans? Where are the Jeffersonian Democrats? Crickets.
Bob Barr comments:
August 13, 2008 9:35 am EST
Atlanta, GA - “My party has already held its convention without a single taxpayer dollar in its support,” notes Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee. But the Republican and Democratic conventions live on federal subsidies. Each party is receiving $16 million for operating expenses and another $50 million for security. But even this might not be enough in the view of some people. Colorado officials are talking about trying to pry some additional money from the feds.
“It probably doesn’t surprise a lot of people that Sen. Barack Obama’s party is trying to pry more money out of government. After all, Democrats have perfected the art of using a political crowbar to bust open the Treasury’s doors. But why is Sen. John McCain, supposed maverick and reformer, going along with the raid? How is he any different than any of the other people who fill Washington clamoring for a bailout?” Barr asks.
“Unfortunately, too many people spend too much time prying money from the feds,” observes Barr. “And both parties are to blame. It’s easier to list the groups that don’t get federal handouts than those that fill their pockets every year. With a half-trillion dollar deficit and a $9.5 trillion national debt, we obviously can’t afford to have all of these people breaking into the Treasury all the time,” says Barr.
“But what can be more obnoxious than forcing taxpayers to underwrite other people’s political opinions? As Thomas Jefferson told us: to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions that he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical. You’d think someone who postures as an opponent of special interests and government pork wouldn’t expect the taxpayers to subsidize his own very special interest political campaign,” notes Barr.
The Libertarian Party staged its' national convention in Denver earlier this year, where it nominated the ticket of Bob Barr and Wayne Root. The convention was staged strictly with private money.
Labels: Barack Obama, Bob Barr, Democratic Party, Denver, John McCain, Libertarian Party, Republican Party
posted by Mike Kole @ 3:38 PM,
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Barr Says No National ID
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Yet another way Obama and McCain agree- instituting a National ID. Bob Barr opposes a National ID, and other expansion of government data collecting, unlike the Republican and Democrat.
Atlanta, GA -- “’September 11’ has become the catch-all excuse for virtually every proposed expansion of government power,” notes Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for president. “One example is a national identification card and data base, long desired by some in government, and which was mandated by legislation passed by the Congress in 2005 with the support of both Senators McCain and Obama. Although I was no longer in the Congress when this bad legislation was passed, I had vigorously opposed it in the years since it became law, just as I led the successful effort to rescind a previous mandate for a national ID card.”
Unfortunately, he explains, “the Real ID Act establishes a new and privacy-invasive national ID card program. By forcing states to standardize their driver’s licenses and creating a vast national data base of private information on the citizenry, the law establishes through the back door something Americans would never have accepted directly—a National Identification Card.” In fact, “there was no open and honest vote on Real ID. The mandate was slipped into a supplemental appropriations bill, discouraging any real debate over the issue.”
Link to entire statement.
Labels: Barack Obama, Bob Barr, John McCain, National ID, Real ID
posted by Mike Kole @ 7:33 AM,
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