Desertdog
Member
I am using this opportunity to illustrate the fact that you can be a Libertarian/Republican and get elected.
Can you illustrate a Libertarian that won as a Libertaian?
I do not know if he is running this year or not, but I do know he was a Libertarian and regestered as a Rupublican and was elected and reelected.
So, if you want to be elected to office run as a Republican and proudly proclaim your Libertarian beliefs. You do not have to leave your beliefs behind, no more than than you leave behind your church or any civic organizations you belong to.
Dd
Representative Ron Paul Speaks the Truth In Congress And the Roof Does Not Fall
(Ed. note: Ron Paul, M.D. is a Republican from the Houston area and is a libertarian. I was on a PBS television talk program once, when he was in the audience. Another member of the audience, who was also a doctor, got up and talked about how "drugs" nearly ruined his life and so had to remain illegal. Ron Paul stood up and responded, "The fact that you can’t control yourself does not give you the right to pass laws to control everyone else."
It is ironic that the subject of the debate is called "the sense of the House." Ron Paul is almost the only one in the House with any sense at all. It will be interesting to see if he gets re-elected and if his courage has any influence on the invertebrates who govern us.)
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec98/cr050598.htm
Can you illustrate a Libertarian that won as a Libertaian?
I do not know if he is running this year or not, but I do know he was a Libertarian and regestered as a Rupublican and was elected and reelected.
So, if you want to be elected to office run as a Republican and proudly proclaim your Libertarian beliefs. You do not have to leave your beliefs behind, no more than than you leave behind your church or any civic organizations you belong to.
Dd
Representative Ron Paul Speaks the Truth In Congress And the Roof Does Not Fall
(Ed. note: Ron Paul, M.D. is a Republican from the Houston area and is a libertarian. I was on a PBS television talk program once, when he was in the audience. Another member of the audience, who was also a doctor, got up and talked about how "drugs" nearly ruined his life and so had to remain illegal. Ron Paul stood up and responded, "The fact that you can’t control yourself does not give you the right to pass laws to control everyone else."
It is ironic that the subject of the debate is called "the sense of the House." Ron Paul is almost the only one in the House with any sense at all. It will be interesting to see if he gets re-elected and if his courage has any influence on the invertebrates who govern us.)
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec98/cr050598.htm
He was the LP's presidential candidate in 88 but was later elected to Congress as an R.