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 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 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 politics and compare that with the LP of Idaho today as it exists under the stellar leadership of ex-GOP activist Ted Dunlap (who again was booted out of the GOP and migrated here to promote his failed policies
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