I agree with almost all of their platform, but there will never come a day when I will vote for someone like Bob Barr. You don't elect the platform, you elect the candidate, and the platform/party has no control over his actions once he is in office.
Ron Paul was the 1988 Libertarian candidate for President. That's not 29 years ago. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Justin Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > > Ron Paul hasn't run as a Libertarian in 29 years. Having said that, the > whole point of the Libertarian Party is that they are the "party of > principle." It theoretically shouldn't matter who they run as all of the > candidates would act the same way in the same situation. Reality is > somewhat different, however. The fact is that most people do not agree > with > their platform, so no matter who is talking their talk, they won't get > elected in any "major" campaign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:295023 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
