Crush the Libertarian Menace -- Vote For Republican Candidates in 2010

For 30 years I've heard from Libertarians, that the problem in American politics is our two party system. Libertarians have a lengthy track record so far as failed attempts at becoming a viable 3rd party are concerned. But they've never managed more than the margin of error in votes cast for their presidential candidates. They haven't fared much better in congressional races. So what's the problem? Well for starters, it's their belief that they alone possess a monopoly on truth, justice and liberty. Libertarians have been con'd into believing the Libertarian Party's ideal for America is better than the one created by the founders. That so many Libertarians presume they have the intellect and wisdom to, as their oft discussed first order of business, rewrite our nation's constitution and cure it's "defects" just staggers the imagination. Much like our NOTUS -- Barack Obama -- their arrogance knows few if any limits.

I admit, at first glance there are some points of agreement between conservatives and the Libertarian Party's updated platform; however, that document is more a masterpiece of ambiguity than a reflection of intellect and wisdom. For instance, while the Libertarian platform holds that every human being has a right to life, that same platform is against proscribing the taking of such life by abortion. On recreational drug use, prostitution and pornography the platform makes clear it's none of the government's business what people choose to do with their own bodies. Yet they completely ignore the statistical data which makes clear the damage proliferation of drugs like pot and cocaine -- both considered "recreational" by Libertarians -- as well as prostitution and pornography have done to the social fabric of our nation. In the Netherlands they're trying to find ways of UN-doing the damage done by decades of their laissez faire social policy. On that score, Libertarians have more in common with Obama and the rest of the French leaning radical left than with mainstream conservative Americans.

And apparently Libertarians accept corruption from their own candidates even as they point fingers at everyone else. Rationalizations abound for Ron Paul's abhorrent behavior in congress. Which demonstrates just how delusional Libertarians can be. Ron Paul has long been the face of their party. And Ron Paul who ran as a Republican because he couldn't have gotten elected sanitation superintendent as a Libertarian, figured out how to scam the system by voting “NO” on appropriations bills he knew would pass with or without his vote. The scam is this. Good ol' RP loads the bill with millions and millions of earmarked dollars for projects in his district. He then vote's against the bill so he can say he's a fiscal conservative in press releases and campaign materials. Then – and here's the real diabolical part – he concocts a cover story in case he gets caught with his hands in our pocket books. He says it's a political necessity to use earmarks because they are the only way to assure that money appropriated by congress gets spent responsibly; as, of course, Ron Paul determines best.

I live in Minnesota and I don't want money taken from me or my family and friends for projects the Federal government has no business funding in the first place -- be they in Texas or anywhere else. Ron Paul is a slick insider same as the rest of 'em. Of course he defends his ear marks, but consider more than a few words once spoken to Davy Crockett by Horatio Bunce while Crockett, then a member of the United States Congress, was on the campaign trail. Bunce had this to say regarding an appropriation bill of $20,000 to benefit the widow of a once distinguished Naval Officer :

"It is not the amount that I complain of, it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing to do with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be and the poorer he is, the more he pays in proportion to his means.

What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000.

If you had the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all and as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity...

The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation and a violation of the Constitution.

So you see, you have violated the constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger for the country. For when congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the constitution, there is no limit to it and no security for the people... I cannot vote for you."

Are appropriations for pet projects back home in Texas any different Mr. Paul?

Libertarians share much in common with Liberals and Democrats, they cling to rigid idealism, and both purport to have the blueprint for a more perfect society; a vote for a Libertarian candidate is a wasted vote and with the stakes as high as they are now there are no votes to waste. Forget the Libertarian or any other 3rd party in 2010. If there is to be a third party, it will emerge from the grass roots and it will not be Libertarian. Until such occurs, vote for the best candidates your local Republican party can muster. Work to get the best people into the running by participating in the caucus and primary systems. Work at the local level to get credible candidates into the process. It won't happen in one election cycle, it will take many. In the interim vote for the most conservative candidates the republican party of your State puts forward. The immediate goal is to defeat the Obama machine and the Marxists now at the helm. Over time we can and will weed the pseudo-conservatives out.