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  • From: James Dasher <jdasher AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers:http"@metalab.unc.edu://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/ <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] RE: Erection
  • Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:47:57 -0500


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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James Dasher
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