There is a huge group of Americans who have no comfortable home in either major party: the tens of millions of us who are fiscal conservatives skeptical of government -- people who will never warm to Dems -- but also a group which is deeply uncomfortable with religious conservatives' sway over the GOP and which doesn't like the authoritarian streak in the Bush administration.
I really believe a libertarian lite could be the first third-party candidate to win a state since George Wallace in 1968. I don't think it will be Ron Paul in 2008 (though he would have a shot in Alaska); Paul is a pretty hard-core libertarian. But a rich candidate who sounded like Arnold, circa 2003-2005, would be hugely attractive in a three-way race with a Hillary-style Dem and a GOPer who sees gays as a menace and civil liberties as a nuisance.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
The ignored mulitudes of the libertarian lite
I found this while trolling the news at the San Diego Union Tribune. They really sum up the way I am feeling. Out of touch with the two major parties, and the other fringe parties are too extreme to actually develop a real following. Why won't a candidate come out and support what I believe in? Let me know what you think, if any candidate will ever address these needs.
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I'm not so sure about the libertarian lite. I just discovered an article by Jeff Flecke Ron Paul Goes After the Coveted Unabomber Vote. The article states that Ron Paul has said the following: The UN also wants to confiscate our firearms and impose a global tax. The UN elites want to control the world’s oceans with the Law of the Sea Treaty. And they want to use our military to police the world. Pretty far out.
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