Comments on: The Party’s Over http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/archives/456 "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it" -- John Cage Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:05:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jon http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/archives/456/comment-page-1#comment-41339 Jon Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:10:25 +0000 http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/?p=456#comment-41339 I agree about Paul's deal, I totally give him props for that. And it's yet one more strike against Barr that he couldn't see that it had to be about something bigger than him. I agree about Paul’s deal, I totally give him props for that. And it’s yet one more strike against Barr that he couldn’t see that it had to be about something bigger than him.

]]> By: Steve Trinward http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/archives/456/comment-page-1#comment-41336 Steve Trinward Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:23:23 +0000 http://www.mushinnoshin.com/blog/?p=456#comment-41336 Jon - The attempt Ron Paul made to "unite the opposition" was a worthy one; I've been pleading with my friends and family for years: if you can't vote Libertarian, PLEASE vote Green, or COnstitution or SOMETHING other than Reprocrat!" I see the BTP ticket as the same kind of thing -- a chance to say HELL NO to the statist quo (while bopping the Barrite Conservatarians on the nose soundly!) I also don't know Charles Jay personally yet, but I've had good online dealings with him (esp on the healthcare issue, soon to release a piece he may endorse as his policy statement), Tom Knapp is of course my comrade-in-words and editor/publisher/creator of most of my daily efforts these days (other things rising but that's still the baseline); his presence on the ticket made me accept it sight otherwise unseen. I see them as the ultimate HELL NO for anyone of libertarian persuasion, or anyone who cannot stomach Greens, Nader, et alia (or that conservatoid Baldwin on the other end of the "spectrum"). To me, voting for BHO is only marginally better (or less worse?) than going for Old John; it still says you favor the statist quo! (and in Tennessee it ain't gonna matter for shit anyway to the outcome; the state will go GOP, and the paltry EVs won't matter nationally). The question to ask is, can you really look yourself in the mirror for the next four years if you vote for either BO or JMac? I sure cannot, any more than I could if I threw it at BB ... Jon – The attempt Ron Paul made to “unite the opposition” was a worthy one; I’ve been pleading with my friends and family for years: if you can’t vote Libertarian, PLEASE vote Green, or COnstitution or SOMETHING other than Reprocrat!”

I see the BTP ticket as the same kind of thing — a chance to say HELL NO to the statist quo (while bopping the Barrite Conservatarians on the nose soundly!)

I also don’t know Charles Jay personally yet, but I’ve had good online dealings with him (esp on the healthcare issue, soon to release a piece he may endorse as his policy statement), Tom Knapp is of course my comrade-in-words and editor/publisher/creator of most of my daily efforts these days (other things rising but that’s still the baseline); his presence on the ticket made me accept it sight otherwise unseen.

I see them as the ultimate HELL NO for anyone of libertarian persuasion, or anyone who cannot stomach Greens, Nader, et alia (or that conservatoid Baldwin on the other end of the “spectrum”). To me, voting for BHO is only marginally better (or less worse?) than going for Old John; it still says you favor the statist quo! (and in Tennessee it ain’t gonna matter for shit anyway to the outcome; the state will go GOP, and the paltry EVs won’t matter nationally).

The question to ask is, can you really look yourself in the mirror for the next four years if you vote for either BO or JMac? I sure cannot, any more than I could if I threw it at BB …

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