On Patrick J. BuchananOn Patrick J. Buchanan
When the perennial election-season urgency to vote a major party seized NoBan, and support for any but Republocrat or Demopublican candidacies got deemed a mix of naivete and villainy, I decided to keep mum on the one and unique political party which has been on the scene for more than a season and which simultaneously supports in a consistent unwavering fashion all individual rights and liberties as guaranteed by the the United States Constitution either explicitly or in the spirit which characterized the writers of that document. That one single pro-liberty non-fly-by-night party is the Liberarian Party.
The Perotistas are neither pro-liberty nor of any serious duration.
The Buchananites are neither pro-liberty (except in the very narrow RKBA definition of "liberty") nor are they of institutional duration except to the degree that grass-roots fascism, sometimes called "populism", is resident in the more somber blood of our country settled by fire and by conquest and by genocidal Manifest Destiny.
So, after I hold my own peace, bowing to the huge scream, "Anybody-But- Clinton!", up pops this Buchanan again. So I have leave to speak again?
Buchanan is one of the last people, after Perot, I'd vote for. I'd surely vote Nader before either of those two birds. I'd vote Jerry Brown before either of those two birds. I'd vote Madonna before either of those two birds. I wouldn't vote for either Buchanan or Perot unless somebody were holding a gun to my head to do so. Of course I wouldn't vote for Clinton either... unless Buchanan had a chance to win if I did not vot for Clinton. That is the way SOME people feel about Buchanan!
If it is no longer catastrophic and suicidal to think of voting for somebody besides Brady-Bob Anti-Smut-CDA Bob Dole then I ask people to think of voting for some other losers besides Buchanan and Perot.
The Libertarian Party is broke, sometimes foolish in its strategy, not always pure, and usually goes almost unmentioned in the media because NOBODY IN ESTABLISHED POWER WANTS THE LIBERTY MESSAGE PROMULGATED throughout this land of ours. Like (I hope!) Perot and Buchanan, and like Ralph Nader, the Libertarian Party will not come near to electing a President this coming November. But unlike P and B the Libertarian Party has a decent and consistent and antitotalitarian message to bring to the somnolent and fearful American citizenry. THE MESSAGE OF THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY IS LIBERTY FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS IN ALL AREAS OF LIFE.
In order to catch the program of the Libertarian Party, people will have to look and listen hard, because the LP brouhaha will not be loud nor prominently displayed nor mentioned very often: The LP lacks the resources for loud and vivid advertising and display and sloganeering. It depends upon the citizenry itself to resound in tune to, and thus to amplify its message and to send that message abroad in the land.
Vote neither for a shift of police state emphasis nor for its steady growth, uninterrupted through any administration since Calvin Coolidge. Send out a voice calling for an end of police state totalitarianism in the United States. The only way to send out that voice clearly is to vote Libertarian. If enough voices raise they will swell a chorus.
