On 2007-10-22 11:54:47 -0700, Jim Logajan said:

C J Campbell wrote:
On 2007-10-21 22:44:53 -0700, Jim Logajan said:
Beats me. According to you the powerless party I've been throwing
away my vote on also isn't what I thought it was.

It certainly is not what it used to be. The party that preserved the
Union, industrialized the North, abolished slavery, and opened the
borders to trade is now talking about protectionist trade barriers and
reduced to fretting over stem cells and illegal aliens.

Clarification needed: I vote for Libertarian candidates when they are on
the ballet and the candidate is also not a goof (no party appears immune to
these sorts). Otherwise I elect not to vote on anyone for a given office if
I don't like any of the candidates.

So the "powerless" party I meant is the Libertarian party, not Republican.

Well, you know the Libertarians are far from 'powerless.' But there are
too many issues where they have their own special social interest
groups that are actually working for *more* government regulation, not
less. Particularly here in Washington State, the Libertarians can get a
little strange sometimes, like the French Anarchists who rioted when
the government proposed relaxing some union regulations. Those are some
bourgeois anarchists they got there in France... but I digress. We have
bourgeois Libertarians.

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