Submitted by Rex Bell on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 11:25am.
MFP Tags: Libertarian, Candidates, AmenTopics: Politics
MFP Tags: Libertarian, Candidates, AmenTopics: Politics
Can I get an Amen?!?!
Third party candidates usually face an uphill battle. For one thing, incumbents get re-elected about 95% of the time, and third party candidates are rarely the incumbent. For another thing, districts are often designed as safe havens for one of the major parties through a process called gerrymandering.
There is also the money thing. I was tickled to raise almost $12,000.00 for my campaign for the Indiana House District 54 seat in 2006. Unfortunately for me, my Republican opponent raised and spent over $200,000.00. He also won the election.
Still, I believe that our government needs some radical changes, and I believe the Libertarian Party has the best ideas for change, so I'll keep working for change, even if the odds are long.
That doesn't mean that Libertarian candidates shouldn't work to cut those odds, if possible. With that in mind, I called Reverend Paul aside after church this morning, and asked him if he had plans to appear on national TV over and over again, ranting and raving like a crazy man about something that displeased him.
He said he had no such plans.
I thanked him kindly.
Libertarians need all the help they can get.
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 I can say, Amen!  To
I can say, Amen! To the Changes we need to make in the Nation, State, County, City/Township.
I am an Indipendant and don't want our Constitution messed with, and would work to limit the Federal Government and work toward more State and Individual Retained Rights, and Limit what our Representatives are allowed to engauge in; and I do agree more often then not with many of the libertarian Candidates.
Yet, I have come to beleive we need to drastically change the way we do Politics in general, this web site is among the best I have found to discuss what needs to be changed to finally make this county a Nation Of the People, For the People, and By the People. http://www.cusdi.org/index.html
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