Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future

But oops, they didn’t have nonna thet when I wuz there. Hadn’t even invented ‘duck and cover’ yet.

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It’s obvious that once the hounds are out, the fox has no chance with them. Cool: makes it all the more interesting. I don’t have to just beat McCaul, I have to also beat some of our own. Good thing I love a challenge!

As for anarchists in the party, you have to admit, that’s an oxymoron at the least. But look more closely and you’ll see that a lot of them are so intent on preventing any authority that they misidentify party structure and leadership for the bad guys.

That’s not just anarchy as the kind of guy who simply wants to live free, that’s the kind of anarchy the public fears. That is, in fact, how much of the public perceives us, because that’s the biggest noise they hear from “libertarians”. Much talk about tearing down structure, little to no talk about building something better in its place, beyond vague promises that the free market will take care of it. Perhaps, that’s because there’s an objection to building anything.

There’s a self-destructive element in very religion, and ours (Libertarianism) is the worship of Lord Acton Revised: Power Corrupts!

That’s not what he said, but that’s what too many of us say, and believe. Over the 30-some years of the party’s existence I’ve heard hundreds of activists say it, sometimes in the most blatantly self-sabotoging of ways, such as “I really don’t trust myself to get elected and have to deal with power!” This guy rides a beat-up old motorcycle and lives in a broken-down RV in someone’s back yard, but puts in hundreds of volunteer hours every year. Too bad they’re all devoted to fear-mongering and obstructionism disguised as making sure we don’t get ourselves into trouble, or shot, or located by the taxman.

Sure, it’s his choice to live that way, but not mine. And you can’t talk to him about the insidious effect his type of activism has on the work. He just won’t listen.

Steve G. points out that I’m the eternal optimist. That’s true, and there’s nothing wrong with having friends who remind me where the ground is. But without dreamers there’s only nightmare… er, I mean… reality.

As for a final couple of rebuttals (I hope). The median income number is irrelevant outside of Medianville, DoesntExistLand. Some places, average income is much less, others, much more. But working with that might be a strain for some people who find simplistic government-think easier, in believing that there’s an average person, an average life, and an average income that spends the same for everyone everywhere. I’d suggest the novel idea that some people need to consider that this is the thinking that makes it impossible for congress to be effective, even if we wanted them to be.

Or at least to recognize that my $1475 extravagance for 4 people in Manor Texas would be a $4500-month bankruptcy palace back home.

UA, it’s not you correcting my typing. It’s you not knowing I’m dyslexic and disinclined to spend too much time reviewing my typing on your behalf. You’re more than welcome to dissipate yourself further by taking that up as a hobby.

Sarcasm. Yup, I have some. And I’m going to insist on the same privilege as is accorded to the accusers: take me as I am and judge my results, but do NOT try to tell me how to live my life or speak my mind. You wouldn’t want everyone to see that poorly-concealed streak of social fascism running down your back, would you?

Remeber, freedom is never telling anybody what to do.

After all, I’d be an anarchist too, if I thought peopl were ready for it. By the looks of things on some of our blgs, I’m right that they’re not.

Too bad. But let’s work together and see if we can change that, okay?

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I’ll send in a donation at the end of the month (thats when I get paid).

Listen to the criticism about using the money wisely. It sounds like good advice to me.

I wouldn’t listen to anyone who isn’t brave enough to use their own name. ua’s whining has no substance to it.

I’m irritated that anyone would complain that the rough equivalent of $60,000 per year is not a working wage, when the median national average income is well below $50,000 per year.

And I’m quite frankly offended that someone can, in the one breath, proclaim how much money they are donating to the cause through lost revenue, demonstrating their commitment, and in the other breath claim that the cause owes them at least one dinner in a mid-to-high level restaurant as a perquisite.

As a defense of the Badnarik campaign’s actions, this really doesn’t impress me- especially when I consider that for the amount you’ve been paid I could buy radio advertising three times a day on two stations for every day from now to election day for my own campaign.

His statements cost him my vote at the national convention.

Maybe now that the same sort of accusations by do-nothings are reaching his mailbox, perhaps Mr. Badnarik and his friends have a greater appreciation for the sacrifices and work done by the Browne staff.

The truth is that at our current funding level, most of our campaign revenues are going to go towards things that seem “less than productive”. The way to get beyond that is to recruit a larger donor pool, which is what Willis and company tried to do for several years.

I note with interest that now that the tight focus on building the donor base has been abandoned, contribution levels for our candidates as a whole are declining—and that’s true even as the number of candidates has declined drastically. Badnarik has been an exception—mostly due to the “cachet” he won by being our presidential candidate.

In any case, the LP has “reformed” its way into organizational hell.

These gutter-feeders who take issue with an expense report without ever doing a couple of weeks’ worth of work at the campaign HQ are now the rule, rather than the exception, in the LP.

Fortunately, the D’s and R’s have the same problem, except they started with a lot more money with which to gloss over the phenomenon.

Welcome to the future, Mr. Badnarik.

Give, Volunteer or get the heck out of the way!

a) Being undercover
b) Correcting your spelling
c) Wasting your time by bringing out the douchebag in you and dragging you into the mud with me
d) All of the above

I went to a public school, and that’s what we called a “mlutiple” choice quiz. I’m glad you have other work to do. Or by work, do you mean that Badnarik is taking everyone to a Tiajuana whorehouse on the campaign dime?

I donated freely as an individual … voluntarily donating money to the campaign, not being compelled to provide the money. I trust Michael Badnarik to employ the staff he decides fit to run his campaign. I met him once in Florida and he earned my trust.

Now please excuse me … I’m going to Outback to have one of those great steaks !!

What’s an anarchist doing in a ploitical party?

Do you have credentials behind all that psychic prognosticating?

But seriously, on what basis do you say all these things? Do you not understand the differences between suspicion, opinion, and reality?

This is where I get to decide not to respond in kind, because too many of our friends went to public schools and got brainwashed into thinking that it’s okay for you to talk trash to me in any rude manner you choose, but not for me to respond in kind. You’re banking on that, aren’t you, that you can bait me out with some one-way pretense of freedom of speech, and then make me out to be the bad guy for not aspiring to some hidden standard you’ll trot out later?

Okay, you’ve said your piece. Time will tell: who will prove to be the bad guy? Me right out here in front, or you, hiding back there in the dark behind an egotistical pseudonym?

Everyone, I’ve got work to do that includes more than debunking eroneous accusations (which Yes, I get paid to do because it must be done, lest yapping hounds take silence to be assent and invent a basis out of that for emboldemnet).

After I get my other stuff done, I’ll post a summary on my own blog at allenhacker.blogspot.com.

Later.

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