Your Vote Counts Twice; Your Support Counts Twice
Posted in Stand Up For Liberty by R Lee Wrights on March 31st, 2007 by George Phillies
When you vote for a candidate, your vote counts twice. It counts once for the candidate. It counts again for the candidate’s party.
Even when your candidate loses, your vote for the candidate shows that the candidate’s party and the ideas it represents have support. When a D.C. resident votes for a Republican Presidential candidate, or a Utah resident votes for the matching Democrat, they know their candidate will lose in their state. There is almost no chance that their popular votes will translate into electoral votes for their candidates. Their popular votes are still important, because they show that their candidate enjoys popular support for his views, popular support that may well manifest itself in other elections for other offices.
That’s why there are no wasted votes. Every vote counts as a show of support for the candidate’s positions and ideas.
The same is true for support. When you give a candidate money or volunteer time, you aren’t just supporting that candidate. You’re also giving legitimacy to his party. You are sending the message that people like that political party enough to invest their hours and their checkbooks.
What does this mean for Libertarians?
In my opinion, the most dangerous threat to the United States is not the threat from another country. After all, what country can compete with our military? It isn’t terrorist cells or weapons of mass distraction. It is political correctness. Those two words have been used to confuse, irritate, and placate Americans for years.
As all of you doubtless know, a movie entitled 300 recently opened to huge box office success and reasonable critical reviews. Most of the raves are coming courtesy of some truly phenomenal Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) which, with “300,” has reached a pinnacle many of us couldn’t have imagined even a few years ago. But some heavy promotion of the film is also coming from those of us who are fans of freedom.
Okay, I’ve finally got it. I’ve finally figured out a way all Americans can pitch in to save the planet. 
“War is sweet to those who have never experienced it.”
Anyone who’s been a parent or a grandparent knows the overwhelming urge to tell their children and grandchildren what to do - even when they’re 30, 40 or 50 years old. It’s a normal parental instinct.
Another school shooting- it hardly turns heads anymore. What the hell is going on in this country?
This is for all the people who complain about people getting out of prison and going back again.
The LNC met on Friday, March 16, preceding the annual LSLA conference. A good number of conference attendees also came to the LNC meeting. Chair Bill Redpath commented that it was the best-attended LNC meeting that he could remember.
The Revolution was fought, capitalized by real men and women who understood why they were fighting and sacrificing, to secure a truly evolutionary understanding of humanity’s relationship with God, each other, and with the curious tool of human organizing we call government.
