Posts here have been in short supply as I have been living life and trying to get a campaign off the ground. But "11 questions to see if Libertarians are hypocrites" by R. J. Eskrow, picked up at Salon , was just so freaking lame that I spent half an hour answering them. In the end (but I'll leave it to your judgment), it is not that Libertarians or Libertarian theory looks hypocritical, but that the best that can be said for Mr. Eskrow is that he doesn't have the faintest clue what he's talking about. That's ok, because even ill-informed attacks by people like this make an important point: Libertarian ideas (as opposed to Conservative ideas, which are completely different) are making a comeback as the dynamic counterpoint to "politics as usual," and so every hack you can imagine must be dragged out to refute them. Ergo: Mr. Eskrow's 11 questions, with answers: 1. Are unions, political parties, elections, and ...
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I don't imagine I would do any better, of course.
We need to commit resources to training LP candidates to dominate - or at least stand out at - these kinds of opportunities.
Neal Boortz and Rep Linder know how to talk, for example. They had the other side on the defensive the whole time.
In Video 2, Buckley, instead of telling Linder to explain his claim that under the Fair Tax take-home income will go up 50% he should have simply explained why it wouldn't. What he did was enable Linder to hog even _more_ time.