Seen at Good Will Hinton:
[M]any Americans believe Libertarians/libertarians (I’m making a distinction between those who belong to the Libertarian party and those who hold to libertarian ideologies) are outside of the mainstream in American politics. Some might even go so far as to call them nutjobs. I recognize that these are unfair and usually inaccurate stereotypes. Nevertheless they exist.
So you would think that an astute politician like Ron Paul would be aware of these negative stereotypes and do everything he could to avoid getting tagged by any of them. You would be wrong.
This was written, of course, in reference to Ron Paul’s response to the North American Union question in the recent YouTube debate, where he failed miserably to differentiate his assertion that he’s a nationalist from the accusation that he’s a New World Order conspiracy theorist.
While I did re-register as a Republican in order to try to keep the mainstream media acquainted with small-ell libertarianism a bit longer by boosting Ron Paul’s numbers…it’s getting harder and harder to maintain the willingness to hold my nose and vote for the guy in spite of the annoyingness of some of his base, and in spite of his faux pas’.