Winter’s Haven

My last post argued that voters ought to ignore issues which are chiefly ideological (such as evolution/creationism) and instead evaluate candidates on their policies. I feel that I should pass along this article by Megan McArdle which contends that Paul’s proposed policies would do remarkably little good (from a libertarian perspective, that is).

She’s probably right; I briefly thought I might find a substantive response in the comments, but no. Let’s be honest here: the libertarian movement attracts more than its fair share of cranks. And it’s becoming pretty clear that the sane and intellectual libertarians are a lot less enthusiastic about Paul than the cranks are. But a lot of libertarians are nonetheless drawn to Paul in our desperation to find a candidate we can truly support.

In my opinion, rest of the GOP slate is a truly awful group of authoritarians and theocrats. On the democratic side, I don’t like either Obama or Clinton. Edwards is terrible. I think Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson are pretty decent, but they have even less chance of winning a party nomination than Paul does. In all likelyhood, I’ll just stay home in November, unless I’m really, really bored, in which case I might venture to the polls to cast a protest vote for whatever rabid goat is running on the Libertarian Party ticket.

Politics sucks.

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