Dear Readers,
I have a message for the 9,524 people who voted for the Libertarian candidate in CD 8.
What were you thinking?! Do you realize that Jesse Kelley lost by 2,349 votes?
If only half of you 9,524 people would have voted for Jesse Kelly, he would have won! And you would have had a candidate who is much closer to your libertarian views heading to D.C. Instead you sent the liberal incumbent Gabby Giffords back to Washington. For shame!
Maybe Jesse Kelly doesn’t match your libertarian views when it comes to national defense and foreign policy, but neither does Gabby Giffords. And Jesse Kelly comes waaaaaay closer to matching your libertarian ideas of lower taxes and smaller government than Gabby Giffords does.
Gabby Giffords supports Obamacare and Cap and Trade. Those two issues alone should be reason enough for every Libertarian to vote her out of office.
The reason I’m addressing this blog post to Libertarians instead of to Democrats is because Libertarians are already certain that lower taxes and smaller, less intrusive government is the way to go. Democrats, on the other hand, think that higher taxes and bigger government is better. So I’m just not sure why you Libertarians can’t realize that your third-party candidate isn’t going to win, so you need to support the candidate that most closely fits your views and that has the best chance of winning. And that candidate is Jesse Kelly.
Honestly, I would have preferred Ian Gilyeat to be my Senator instead of John McCain. Ian Gilyeat has practically the exact same political philosophy that I do. But I didn’t vote for him because he had no chance of winning, and because voting for him would just encourage him and people like him to run again.
Libertarians, don’t you like Ron Paul? He’s basically a libertarian, but he became a Republican. Why? Because Ron Paul’s a smart man, and early on he learned that there is a two-party system in this country. Third parties don’t work. Don’t waste your time with them.
(The numbers I used in this post were from the Arizona’s Secretary of State’s website and were accurate at the time of this writing. It’s possible that Jesse Kelly will still actually win, but it’s not looking so good right now.)
Sincerely,
Telemoonfa
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5 comments:
I SOOOOO Agree with you Telemoonfa. The third party always manages to take votes away from the republican party- which if they would have had those votes then they would usually have beat the democrat! Seriously!! Totally agree with you- they should have gone for someone closer to their political beliefs that actually had a chance of winning. Now they have the complete opposite. Hope they're happy.
man. That's just gross. They taught me in school that third parties never win.
Doesn't everybody know that the third party never wins?
I think the Democratic strategy of promoting the libertarian paid off big for Gabby. I think it is dirty politics but its not illegal. I was not fooled by it, but I think enough people were to elect Gabby. (Unless a miracle happens in the absentee ballots still being counted)
pp
By the way, readers, PP's comments about the Democratic party promoting Steven Stoltz, the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Representative in CD 8, is legit. Espresso Pundit tells you all about it here:
http://www.espressopundit.com/2010/10/desperate-dems-push-the-libertarians.html
The cold, hard truth is that the root word of Libertarian isn't "liberty."
It's "liberal."
Voting your conscience is a great thing, UNLESS it hands victory to the real enemy of liberty. And I'm no GOP'r, btw.
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