In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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That is a plank of Gary's and should be. It it the right course. The problem just reading the thread is that in pushing Pete on that admendment we might be marginalizing the issue. It comes across that libertarians are a single issue candidacy, which we both know is wrong. I'm saying that is how exchanges tend to come across when you are the person making the accusation and a whole team jumps back at you, incidently not using anything with a factual basis to retort...
My recommendation... Use Gary's strength which is his governorship and its record... What you have to overcome is prejudice. Prejudice against third party candidates... They almost seem un-American.. Like rhubarb inside an apple pie... Good if you try it but it turns a lot of people off before they even venture a taste....
Gary needs to be mainstreamed into the consciousness of those who do not like Obama, and those who do not like Romney... And there are a lot.
Gary needs to get good press, and my whole point is that when we lose sight of the war, we may let battles that we appear to be winning, turn the hearts and minds against us overall....
That's all.. Keep up the good fight.
So I'm fine with that.
As for the rest, I'm making it up as I go along so I'll give it some thought.