The Case for Badnarik

A great article at Atlasphere:

If George Bush or John Kerry represents your basic values, vote for them. Name a child after them. But don’t waste your vote voting against one of them. Many who voted against Gore now regret their vote for Bush. Many who vote against Bush in 2004 will be embarrassed to have voted for Kerry.

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You owe it to yourself to go to www.lp.org and to read the Libertarian Party platform and other current articles. Then check out www.badnarik.org to learn more about Mr. Badnarik and his views. If you see that his positions and his reasoning are closer to your values that either of the duopoly candidates, then do the straightforward and sensible thing: vote for him.

If Mr. Badnarik received five percent of the vote, would it matter whether Bush or Kerry was elected? The answer is no because the whole political establishment would be shaken to its foundations. The decisions of the president would be influenced by that pro-liberty five percent. Media attention would be directed toward limited government solutions. It might be the beginning of a virtuous cycle.

The votes for Michael Badnarik measure how many adults in the United States value limited government and respect for individual rights more than all of the hoopla and manipulation. This is a number that professional politicians watch carefully. The Libertarian Party is our yardstick measuring success in the battle for political liberty.

Read the whole article here.