July 23rd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Ain’t the Reform Caucus great?”

Mr. Landham is not a member of the LRC as evidenced here:

http://reformthelp.org/home/about/members.php

With all due respect, if you cannot express yourself in truthfully, perhaps you should not post on the internet.

There’s such a thing as “bad attention” in politics, just as there is for children.

By your logic, the smartest thing all third party candidates could do is say something racist, offensive and controversial, just to get the press.

Better yet, why not pull out a gun and shoot someone at a rally for your campaign? That’d REALLY get peoples’ attention.

It also leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the electorate and it becomes a hurdle that every future candidate in that party will have to clear.

Whereas the big two can run a nut and people think, “Man, what a nut”, if that same candidate were to run as a Libertarian/Green, they’d think “the Libertarians/Greens are nuts”

And every KY LPer will have to worry about Landham’s racist aftertaste and it could potentially cost them votes in future elections. Cost them votes from people who hate war and people who hate racism – two groups that the LP should at least have a real shot at winning.

Because if you’re going to just support sacrificing a party’s principles to get attention, then you sacrifice the whole point of having that party in the first place. If what you promote and get votes with, is antithetical to the party’s real views, that’s no win but a loss.

And frankly, I have no problem with controversy. Just make sure it’s controversy YOU BELIEVE IN. Otherwise, it’s the political equivalent of that kid in grade school who used to eat bugs and dirt to get attention.

Remember we are talking Kentucky politics here, where there were (unfortunately) many Democrats who freely admitted to polsters, people they didn’t know, that they voted for Clinton because Obama was black. I am guessing that more Kentuckians would have more problems with Landham’s pornographic movie career than they would with any of his racist statements.

Frankly, I think the only way Landham could even get into double digits would be to for him to invoke “class warfare” (stating that Lunsford (D) and McConnell® are both multi-multi-millionaires, while he isn’t, thus he would be more representative of the average Kentuckian), not “race warfare”, although racist blue-dog Democrats are going to have a hard time this year and he might be trying to tap into them.

FWIW, I have read that Landham is still having problems getting the 500 signatures STATEWIDE to get on the ballot, while Libertarian Candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, Ed Martin, has filed his 400 needed signatures from Louisville (source: http://polwatchers.typepad.com/pol_watchers/2008/07/libertarian-files-to-run-in-3rd-congressional-district.html).

Perhaps the party should stop the signature drive before Landham embarasses it further.

(P.S. You can call me Larry whether you agree with me or not.)

But the real problem, as Susan (may I call you Susan?) pointed out it the bombing threat.

They have what we want. If they wont sell it to us at the price we like then we should initiate force to take it. Real libertarian…

What he said is not racist. It’s direct, pointed but a stupid choice of words for a politician to make. That doesn’t make him a racist and besides, people have the right to speak, say or write anything they want.

The more crap I read especially about the Texas city councilmen who got worked up over the “Black Hole” comment along with the social acceptance of picking on West Virginians for being supposedly inbread and referring to to people in the South as Rednecks, the more I find this kind of talk refreshing.

WITH LP SHIT-HEADS LIKE LANDHAM..WHO NEEDS THE STINKING WARMONGERING REPUBLICRATS?

Seeing as how you are posting comments as “Eric Dondero”, it could be argued that you have opened the door to people referring to you as “Eric”. You could have posted as “Mr. Dondero”, “Rittberg”, or whatever, and that would send a different message, But if you don’t want your “adversaries” (of which I would guess there are many on this site) referring to you as “Eric”, you might want to try a new user name. Because Eric is what you are introducing yourself as.

At the very least, Eric, I would say that web forum common law dictates that anyone in the discussion here can call you “Eric Dondero”, since that is your official name here. If I were Mr. Garris, I’d probably do that just to rattle your cage. You wouldn’t be in any position to object, really. Asking someone to be more polite to you because you hate them isn’t much of a bargaining position, Eric.

What’s wrong with Garris’ questions that causes you to avoid them so determinidely, Eric?

A flower has tossable petals.
While cars, bikes and drum sets have pedals.
I’d give Eric a pass,
but that pain in the ass
Still refuses to show us his medals.