Message #75 (84 is last):
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:01:41 -0400
From: rfriend@advnet.net ("R. Friend")
Subject: [lpaz-repost] Sometimes you just have to rub their noses in it ...
To: MIlibertarian@listbot.com ("Michigan Libertarian")
Cc: glbilib@listbot.com ("Gay, Les, Bi"), lpaz-repost@yahoogroups.com ("LPAZ - Repost"), PALibernet@egroups.com ("PALibernet")
Dear Bill,
Thank-you, for this one! I love it!
Yours, In Liberty;
Rick.
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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 16:31:27 -0600
From: Bill Hartwell=20
Subject: Sometimes you just have to rub their noses in it ...
http://www.suntimes.com/output/letters/vox01a.html
GOP gets its just deserts=20
Contrary to the prevailing wisdom, Republicans didn't lose the Senate becau=
se they were too conservative; they lost it because they weren't libertaria=
n enough. That's what prompted voters in 1998 and 2000 to desert Republican=
candidates and vote for Libertarians--which cost the GOP at least two U.S.=
Senate seats.=20
In each case, the Libertarian Party candidate won considerably more votes t=
han the losing candidate's margin: Slade Gorton lost by 2,229 votes in Wash=
ington, while Libertarian Jeff Jared won 64,734 votes; and John Ensign lost=
by 428 votes in Nevada, while Libertarian Michael Cloud won 8,044 votes.=20
Those two races turned what would have been a 52-48 Republican majority int=
o a 50-50 split in the Senate--and set the dramatic stage for James Jefford=
s' switch and the creation of what is effectively a Democratic majority.=20
As long as Republicans keep voting for bigger, more expensive and more intr=
usive government, libertarian-leaning voters will keep deserting them. And =
unless they start voting more like Libertarians, Republicans should get use=
d to their minority status.=20
Austin Hough, state chairman, Libertarian Party of Illinois=20
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