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3rd Parties Get No Respect
by RS Davis The Freedom Files ![]() Hello Freedomphiles! Check out my new Nolan Chart exclusive about the double-standard for ballot access. Excerpt: So, Bob Barr filed a writ of mandamus with the Supreme Court of Texas, trying to force the SoS to follow the law and remove the Democratic and Republican candidates from the ballot. The Supreme Court simply denied the writ, with no explanation - but no explanation was needed. This is a two-party duopoly, and while third parties have to jump through hoops to get on a ballot, the elites are there somehow by birthright. So, fast forward to today, when reason magazine's Radley Balko reports that Bob Barr lost his lawsuit to be included on the Louisiana ballot, after having missed the deadline. There was a slight difference, though. While McCain and Obama missed the deadline because of elitist indifference, Bob Barr missed the deadline in Louisiana because of a hurricaine. Click here to read the rest, and click the thumbs up icon while you're there! |
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Well that sucks for Barr. But in reality, if you look at the numbers of support, this race is between McCain and Obama and so regardless of deadlines, they should be on every ballot. While I agree that Barr should be on LA ballot, McCain and Obama should not be excluded from Texas, since they are the big two and the people (as seeing as there are a lot of supporters down in Texas for McCain) have the right to partisipate in this democracy and that should be above the law.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car. A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. I could've eaten Alphabit soup and crapped out a better post! |
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![]() "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."
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Barr should be waved through. There should be no laws restricting the democratic process at all. There should be no hoops to jump through.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car. A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. I could've eaten Alphabit soup and crapped out a better post! |
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Hey, did you see this article made Rational Review's Commentary List for today? I think that's a first for me.
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If Barr was on the ballet he would risk a derailment of the McCain campaign, and we cannot have that.
![]() Not only do I think that any serious candiate should be on the ballet in every state but also that any one that gets >1% voter support should be able to participate in debates.
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Here's an idea...why not just outlaw 'third' parties altogether and require membership into one of the tax-subsidized parties? Wait.....haven't we seen that in history before? Yeah CCCP did that at one time. Voters in Texas have the right to "participate" and can "vote" for the remaining four candidates that obeyed the law. When the government routinely violates the law, it has no moral authority to enforce the law. The government becomes despotic and illegitimate.
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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat |
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