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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It's interesting you never mentioned the Washington State LP's attempt to get Romney ejected from the ballot.
I collected 300 signatures today for Gary Johnson in a southern state, where he's very much in danger of not making the ballot. Yup, you're truly rode in on a white horse and pretty much saved the day. Probably another 300 tomorrow.
Oh, and I'M A REPUBLICAN.
Second, I did cover Libertarians suing to take Mitt off the Washington ballot.
http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2012/08/campaign-quick-hits.html
Frankly, I think that was a good thing, if only to remind the GOP that has attacked our ballot access in Iowa, in Virginia, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere that two can play at this game.
Yeah, you personally go out and collect signatures for the Libertarian Party, and that's great. But the GOP is not interested in any partnership with the Libertarian Party that doesn't involved all Libertarians simply following the party line and voting en masse for their nominee.
I didn't decide to unleash lawsuit after lawsuit to keep GOP candidates off the ballot.
Here in Delaware, as nationally, the GOP has opposed Libertarian inclusion in debates, and has continually rigged the electoral process to shut out third parties.
Your party treats Libertarians the way the Democrats have treated African-Americans and LGBT voters for years--as a captive population to be scared with "vote for us or get the awful Democrats."
The truth is: Republicans in office have not been Libertarian at all on the national level.
Soon your so-called "libertarian Republicans" will face their own choice: continue to go along with a so-called "major party" that wants their input only once every four years, or follow their principles. If they have any.