Spent an enjoyable lunch hour today
perusing Reason magazine’s poll of presidential picks by their libertarian
and libertarian fellow-traveler
panel. Lots of good comment
here. My favorite — and the one out of all the entries that comes closest
to my own view — came from Louis Rossetto, the co-founder of
Wired, who wrote:
2004 vote: Bush may be wrong about everything else, but he is right about
the issue that matters most for my children’s future: stopping Islamic
fascism. And Manchurian candidate Kerry and the Copperheads, er, Democrats,
are just a joke, preferring to act as though this probably
generation-spanning war is about politics, not the survival of the West.
Rossetto goes on to say that he’s never voted for president before, but
feels that there’s too much at stake now to sit this election out, because
“the alternative of not voting and allowing a billionaire currency
speculator like George Soros to pick the next U.S. president is too dire to
contemplate.”