Colin Powell summed it up: poor judgment. You screwed the pooch Republicans.

“The Libertarian would still lose (because SO many people vote against their economic interests)”

I am unfortunate enough to live in a small town that only has one newspaper, part of the Libertarian brand associated with the Orange County Register, whose editorials it often reprints. So I read Libertarian cant along with breakfast every day. The conclusion I draw is that they believe that the only responsibility that government has toward the economy is to get out of the way of the all-knowing free market. Conservative leaders like the revered Pres. Reagan and Grover Norquist have uttered much-quoted assertions that amount to the same idea.

I’m not sure that it is I who is out of touch with reality, especially as our country and the world try to deal with the debacle following an era of deregulation of markets. By the way, I’m aware that both political parties colluded in that trend.

If ever I say “no government is good government”, just take me out behind the wood pile,shoot me dead, and bury me there, because it means that my brain has turned to mush.

Except for the considerable handicap of residual racism, Sen. Obama might win by a landslide. Of course, the anti-Obama racism is partially if not fully offset by those who are biased toward him simply because the election of a black president would represent a desirable step forward for our society that has become ashamed of its long history of entrenched racism.

As to Russ’s apparent beliefs that no government is good government and that a free press is pure evil are so out of touch with reality that it is pointless to try to refute them.

If people actually voted for the candidate they wanted, the libertarian candidate (this year, Bob Barr) would get double-digit vote percentages. There’s a simple way to show this: use weighted voting. So rather than voting for Obama because you could not tolerate a McCain victory, you vote for Barr, Obama, and then McCain. The Libertarian would still lose (because SO many people vote against their economic interests), but neither would a vote for the person you REALLY want interfere with your vote AGAINST the person you really don’t want.

I’ll add that essentially she has nothing to say other than to bash Obama. That’s the McCain/Palin strategy. It’s worked in the past. I don’t think it will work this time.