Well good Post Election evening again, Bill!
Bill Anderson ruminates post election matters with Frank Reichert...
Because some of us believe it is better to have elected libertarians than
paper candidates, or bitter old men filled with hate.
That is a rather cheap shot, or else, cop out on your part, and
you know it, particularly in THIS off-year election which
probably is even more important than the general election just
two years ago when I was still running under the LP of Idaho
banner here locally.
I might add, the ONLY one up here running. Everyone else had
long disappeared from the scene due primarily to the stellar
leadership of Ted Dunlap, the same Ted Dunlap that scored even
lower in Idaho Polls than his Constitutionalist opposition
candidate did, who was at least in my opinion even worse, at
least as televised in the PBS televised debate.
Nevertheless, going back several years, when much of the current
context in the buildup to this 'War on Terror' began, it was only
the late radical Democrat Roger Erdman and myself who opposed
this damn war in Iraq, and we were both labelled by you and
several others, those of you who embraced initiating force
against individual countries around this planet for the sake
imposing democracy by force. I can now speak in hindsight
because I was there at the time these conversations were then
taking place. Roger and I had the audacity to oppose the Shrub,
that is, the current sitting lame duck President, who has now
brought and invited this current disaster of restoring a majority
by Democrats into both Houses of Congress.
Where were you anyway when these conversations were taking place
back then and almost every night on Liberty Northwest? You were
siding with the pro-Israeli side, with Douglas Friendman and
Robert Goodman holding the Fort in favor of initiating whatever
force might be necessary to continue a failed 40-year plus US
foreign Policy.
Thankfully, the national Libertarian Party did NOT endorse your
efforts, but rather opposed them all.
I can tell you this, I was also there and witnessed all of the
shenanigans that Ted Dunlap pulled off to finally bring the
demise to the Libertarian Party of Idaho as a real State Party,
which fielded over 50 plus candidates during election year 2000.
That's now long gone. What's left, is that the LP of Idaho has
been reduced to mainly a local Boise social 'finger food' club,
and as I see it now, centred around the same Ted Dunlap who was
booted out of the GOP earlier and migrated here in Idaho to take
over and control the once vibrant LP of Idaho and has since left
in in total disarray and shambles.
Another way you might want to take a look at some of this is to
compare how the GOP is doing in today's current climate in USA
politics in Idaho, and then compare that with the LP of Idaho
today as it exists under the stellar leadership of ex-GOP fired
activist Ted Dunlap (who again was booted out of the GOP and then
migrated here to promote his failed policies by migrating these
same failed policies here in Idaho).
I will never again run under the LP of Idaho banner in Idaho for
political office until the likes of Ted Dunlap is gone from the
stage, or control, of promoting what is essentially a
non-libertarian agenda in Idaho. Absent the radical conservative
Christian Right Wing rhetoric of his counterpart in the
Constitution Party in the last debate, Mr. Dunlap has managed to
destroy the Libertarian Party in Idaho over the previous four
years and has replaced the Party's real significance with a
message reflecting largely upon his past failures to influnce the
GOP, from whence he came to Idaho in the first place!
You probably can figure out here, I'm not in to finger food
meetings to discuss Libertarian agendas from a failed context by
a so-called LP Chairman who was fired and excused by his former
GOP benefactors, insofar at least supporting for what is
important to me at least, a real and decisive Libertarian
message, presence and posture in Idaho by the message of the
Libertarian Party as it presently exists on the national level.
I might be getting older Bill. Hell we all do. But filled with
'Hate' as you just described it... I doubt it. Disgusted perhaps
might be a better word. But I conclude there might be several
reasons why disgusting language might be in order to describe the
condition of the Boise Club that considers itself representative
of Libertarian idealism within the context of the rest of the
State. I find a problem with that.
This Party has lost a lot of genuinely great Libertarian people
here in Idaho and over a relatively short period of around the
last four years. A lot of these people once gave their all for
this Party. Four years ago the LP of Idaho was a political threat
to the established status quo up here in north Idaho. Today it
is nothing more than a farce, and probabably that those who voted
for it before would rather simply forget about today. And, I
cannot claim any responsibility for that whatsoever.
So, yes. I am angry. Full of Hate? Probably not. It is going
to take a long, long time to rebuild the LP of Idaho north of
Boise again. I spent a lot of my personal time and resources to
do exactly that only to have it destroyed by the likes of Ted
Dunlap and his arrogant and self-aggrandizing approach to
transforming the LP of Idaho into the present repudiation of the
GOP at the national level, which is exactly why he cannot ever be
a leader in the Libertarian Party in Idaho. He is a cast out
'has been' from the GOP in Oregon, a migrant to Idaho, and never
was or has any real credentials on a scale that would even
suggest that this charleton has any reference at all to
Libertarian causes or should benefit through LP leadership in
this state, that is, by destroying this Party's once huge base
throughout the State.
This did happen. It has happened. And all the historical
revisionalism in the world won't change that fact. Voters in
Idaho simply have very little choice these days between the GOP
and the Democratic Party throughout much of the State. The
Libertarian Party candidates have large gone.
That is Ted Dunlaps historical legacy as Chairman of the LP of
Idaho. It all happened under his leadership.
So... let's have Brunch and figure food .... that is the LP of
Idaho's current legacy now in Idaho.
Warmest regards,
Frank
Kindest regards,
Frank
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