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[James Dasher <jdasher AT ibiblio.org>]

On Nov 4, 2004, at 5:35 PM, Evan Zimmerman wrote:

> Dude, I hate to break it to you but the reason GB was re-elected was
> *because* of those voters. It's fine that you don't want them in your
> party, but the problem is, they're now the majority of the party.
> As best I can tell, the libertarian party now appears to be closer to
> the original ideals of the republican party now than the republican
> party does.

Except that the Republican Party was originally dominated by people 
opposed to slavery on religious grounds.  The first Republican 
president rode that tide of moral resentment to the presidency, and 
mired us in a bloody, protracted war.  Four years later, his Democratic 
challenger campaigned to end the war.

Libertarians as such weren't around then, but had they been, they would 
have been appalled at the unheard-of debt levels accumulated by the 
State of Illinois under a spending-spree engineered by Lincoln while he 
was in the state legislature.  It wasn't until mid-way through his 
presidency that the state of Illinois teetered back from the brink of 
bankruptcy.

PS: Am I in the distinct minority of people on the list who have ever 
voted for a Libertarian presidential candidate?  Or down-ballot 
Libertarians?

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