The Free View - weblog of a presidential candidate

I am way behind in acknowledging folks who have linked to Freedom2008.com, and I'm going to try and pick off a few at a time so I can try and catch up.

Most recently, I noticed that Paul Kelly, a stand-up comedian in the Chicago area, has me listed among his right-column links on his itsfunny.biz blog (and not as a humor item, as far as I can tell.)

Former LP Campus Coordinator Marc Brandl includes me in his blogroll at O'Lucky Man! as well.

Rob Booth, a "libertarian Republican" (<--an oxymoron, if you ask me), posted a link to E-Actions for Freedom back in late November. He didn't comment on it (though he referenced my presidential campaign in the link), but I have to give him kudos because the day he linked, the top action at E-Actions was from the ACLU. Further reading seems to indicate that he's a pretty nice guy. He's what they call a "South Park Republican" -- which is a libertarian who hasn't fully swallowed the pill yet, and therefore continues to glom onto the GOP out of a sense that it's the morally superior of the two parties "that can win". Ultimately, they are still sold on the GOP's false promise of limited government, and that whole Ronald-Reagan-national pride-moral fiber-"traditional values" thing. Which is all well and good -- excellent, in fact -- on the personal and social level. But which is not all well and good when it results in defending the mingling of church and state, and is not good when it turns into warhawking jingoism, and is not good when it results in "Freedom Fries", or "defense of marriage" inanery.

I don't know which if any of those political sins Rob Booth is guilty of, and I don't mean to direct those barbs at him. Just those like him. ;-) No...seriously, I'm generalizing about no one in particular, but I bet many of you know some folks who are riding the moral-superiority-in-politics wave. If you're tapped into the Republican talkstream, you either know what I'm talking about, or you're doing what I'm talking about and don't know it.

That's why it took me so long to post about his link-- because visiting his site stirred up some thoughts in me. I still haven't expressed them very fully, but that's all I can afford right now. And again, let me say that Rob seems like an alright guy, as far as I can tell. No besmirchment of him is intended. (Except the first part where I said that "libertarian Republican" -- a label he gives himself -- is an oxymoron. I stand behind that.)

Anyway, thanks for the link, Rob, and Marc, and Paul! I'll be sending one back as soon as I resurrect the links panel on the right side of the page.