why can't i have local candidates worth voting for?

[pauli]

special election for state senate today.

on the one hand, mark herring. i answered his survey, but he won't answer the vcdl survey. no survey, no vote. that's my policy.

on the other hand, mick staton. he did answer the vcdl survey, and his answers were good... but on virtually every other issue, he's exactly what i don't want in office.

i think i'm going to write in mike irwin again.

[charby]

If you have to ask that quetion then maybe you need to step up to the plate and run.

[pauli]

the election prospects for 25 year old partially employed libertarians without decent suits or college degrees around here are... dim.

but, let's see my platform...

fix the restaurant carry problem, raise all the speed limits, add more lanes to everything, double teacher salaries, keep abortion safe and legal, keep 'intelligent design' out of schools, and raise taxes whenever necessary to do it.

i'll get elected when people can vote online.

edit: if elected, i would also introduce legislation requiring blue ridge arsenal to refurb the damn range *now.* all politics are local, you know.

[charby]

Well not all republicans are christian conservatives, I think a moderate republican will get good election results if they make sure people know their ideas and ideals. Christian conseratives are the most vocal republicans as the lefty lefts are the most vocal democrats.

Charby

[K Frame]

Sorry, I'm not in your district...

[pauli]

i know, i'm hoping to keep anybody from filling the seat

[The Rabbi]

the election prospects for 25 year old partially employed libertarians without decent suits or college degrees around here are... dim.

but, let's see my platform...

fix the restaurant carry problem, raise all the speed limits, add more lanes to everything, double teacher salaries, keep abortion safe and legal, keep 'intelligent design' out of schools, and raise taxes whenever necessary to do it.

i'll get elected when people can vote online.

edit: if elected, i would also introduce legislation requiring blue ridge arsenal to refurb the damn range *now.* all politics are local, you know.

Hmm, so you are in favor of bar fights ending in shoot-outs, teen-age highway deaths, supporting the teachers' unions, killing babies, banning G-d from the public, and destroying the economy through taxation.  Go for it!

[pauli]

state and local taxes are the way to fund state and local issues such as education, and i believe that investing in the teachers results in economic gain for the community.

and no i wouldn't ban god from the public - he's got as much right to walk down the street as anybody else. i wouldn't even ban him from schools, he'd just need a visitor badge.

but this thread isn't about me - it's about, why can't the republicans run someone who isn't a corporate lawyer or pat robertson shill, and why can't the democrats run someone who believes in *anything* strongly enough to say so?

western fairfax/eastern loudoun should be a total cakewalk for a moderate republican.

[K Frame]

"Hmm, so you are in favor of bar fights ending in shoot-outs, teen-age highway deaths, supporting the teachers' unions, killing babies, banning G-d from the public, and destroying the economy through taxation.  Go for it!"

I've run on that platform a number of times.

[The Rabbi]

"Hmm, so you are in favor of bar fights ending in shoot-outs, teen-age highway deaths, supporting the teachers' unions, killing babies, banning G-d from the public, and destroying the economy through taxation.  Go for it!"

I've run on that platform a number of times.

How many times were you succesful?

and i believe that investing in the teachers results in economic gain for the community.

I have this great real estate deal in Brooklyn I want you to look at....

[K Frame]

I've been elected to my HOA board of directors 5 times...

[Strings]

You should remember the story of the 18 year old kid in Iowa. He ran for his district's Assembly seat, and won: by going door to door every one of the last couple days of the election cycle...

[Guest]

...but this thread isn't about me - ...

Yes, it is. The reason you are frustrated is that you mistakenly think you are "libertarian".

 

"fix the restaurant carry problem, raise all the speed limits, add more lanes to everything, double teacher salaries, keep abortion safe and legal, keep 'intelligent design' out of schools, and raise taxes whenever necessary to do it."

A consistant libertarian would work to:

 Abolish all drinking laws.

 Eliminate speed limits.

 Spend no more on public roads.

 Eliminate all public education.

 Mind his own business on abortion.

 See above for what is taught in schools.

 Abolish all taxes.

[pauli]

as it is preferable to main no tone at all rather than an uncivil one, i am done here.

[K Frame]

"A consistant libertarian would work to:

Abolish all drinking laws.

Eliminate speed limits.

Spend no more on public roads.

Eliminate all public education.

Mind his own business on abortion.

See above for what is taught in schools.

Abolish all taxes."