Libertarian campaign blog

Thanks to Carlos for sending me the link to the weblog for Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian presidential candidate. (More-or-less static campaign website here.) One of the blog posts is titled, forthrightly, "Libertarians hope to cost Bush the election", presumably by attracting the votes of fiscally responsible, small-government conservatives who can't stomach the abuses of the current Republican regime. More power to 'em.

Who else but a libertarian would be willing to appear on both the O'Reilly Factor *and* a Gay Pride parade? In the same week, no less?

From the Austin Chronicle:

If they can't win outright, the Libertarians are hoping that they can pressure President Bush from the right much in the way Ralph Nader is running to John Kerry's left, especially in battleground states like Wisconsin, Oregon, and Nevada. They hope to appeal to Republicans disaffected by the Bush administration's war in Iraq as well as its economic policies – many conservatives, like U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Surfside (himself a former Libertarian presidential candidate), oppose both the war and the administration's willingness to engage in deficit spending on a massive scale.

Badnarik is on record strongly opposing the war in Iraq as imperial military adventurism, and the USA-PATRIOT Act as a dangerous restriction on constitutionally guaranteed liberties. He also opposes all gun laws – saying he moved from California to Texas largely because of his opposition to California restrictions on gun ownership....