[rollei_list] Re: Idle Thoughts on the US Memorial Day
- From: Michael Eric Berube <pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 22:55:19 -0400
Marc James Small wrote:
Every legitimate poll currently shows McCain winning by around 85
electoral votes over Obama and by around 110 electoral votes over
Clinton if the election were held today. Bear in mind that the
election is still more than five months away, and a LOT can happen in
the interim:
like... hopefully the electorate will come to it's senses and reject the
false dichotomy that is described as a 'two party' system!? (I'll not
hold my breath.)
Me? I shall not vote for McCain but I am spared the necessity as he
will certainly take my home Commonwealth of Virginia by storm, so I
can safely cast a protest vote, probably Libertarian.
I was the Oxford Cty Chair of the LP in ME all through the 90s and I've
voted for the Libertarian Presidential Candidate every election since
1992 when I was first turned on to the LP and the ideas of self
government, individual liberty and responsibility.
This year, I was an elected Delegate for Ron Paul at my state
convention. Even though we made up 25% of the overall delegates in
Augusta, we got nearly completely shut out (1:18 National Delgates) by a
party that is rapidly trying to convince itself that it needs to 'win'
so badly that it should betray its very reason to exist and vote for a
pro-war Big Government pseudo-con who is so afraid of being seen as
flying the white flag of surrender to the enemy as he feels happened to
him in SEAsia in 1967 that he is willing to destroy what is left of our
economy and international relations by expanding a never ending 'war'
with something as amorphously defined as 'terrorism.'
I would vote for the LP candidate this year too BUT I cannot in good
conscience pretend that Robert Barr will somehow now support and defend
the Constitution after an entire career spent trying to subvert it any
more than I can pretend that John McCain would wake up Jan09 a born
again Constitutionalist Conservative.
It sickens me that the LP has taken the cheap and easy road to
publicity/membership in nominating Rep. Barr. He is a sponsor of DOMA
(he claims he now opposes it), a supporter The Patriot Act (he claims he
now opposes it), the (undeclared) 'war' in Iraq (h.c.h.n.o.i), and he is
the Congressman who called on the US Military restrict our
servicemembers from exercising their Right to practice their religion
unless it is a religion that HE believes is acceptable (no comment from
Barr on this these days!) To have the LP choose this man as their
(sacrificial) candidate over a long time, proven candidate with
character, Dr. Mary Ruwart is just sick.
For the record, I don't expect that O'Bama will support the Constitution
any more than Barr, Clinton, or McCain would either. I don't believe in
what O'Bama believes in but I believe that O'Bama believes in what he
says that he believes in. IN the sad sad situation that we find our
Nation in at the moment, that may be enough in a CEO.
Meanwhile I will work for adoption of an Instant Runoff Election system
http://fairvote.org/?page=1895 and to spread of an apportioned Electoral
College System like that which Maine and Nebraska employ...via
Congressional District instead of simple popular vote Winner Take All
which favours urban/metro centers.
These two reforms would do more to foster positive change in our system
of Government than all of the funding schemes and free speech
restricting McCain/Feingold boondoggles and all of the time and energy
wasted on 'third party' campaigns in a 'two party' system ever will.
Carpe lumen,
Michael
(What list is this again?)
:)
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