Another thought: Many "decent conservatives" these days are actually [small-l] libertarian-leaning in spirit, in that one of the biggest things they want (which they saw first the Democrats, starting several decades ago, and more recently the neocon Republicans violating) is smaller, less-intrusive government that in the words of the old saying stays as much as absolutely possible off their (and everybody else's) backs and out of their (and everybody else's) pocketbooks. However, the [large-L] Libertarian Party has insured said conservatives will never support the LP on a national level or its candidates for President because of the national LPs non-negotiable insistence on legalization of drugs as a plank of their platform. While those conservatives not only admit that the so-called "War on Drugs" does not seem to have worked or indeed done much good at all in reducing demand for and use of drugs, but also many of them believe that some of the powers given to law enforcement and the courts in the name of said "War on Drugs" go too far and have been shown in practice to have been used to harass, imprison and even kill under color of law the innocent*, they don't see how blanket legalization will reduce the number of people who will drive while impaired and then cause accidents or keep drugs out of the schools and away from their minor children any better than the current laws [fail to] do.
Again, we'd (I consider myself a "decent conservative" even if not necessarily everything I have written in these posts exactly describes me) love to vote FOR somebody if we had a choice. So we keep asking, "Where is the choice we can vote FOR in the upcoming election in November?" _____ *q.v. the case of the 92-y.o. grandmother from Atlanta whose case was again in the news iirc last week. . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
