Collective Responsibility -v- Individual Responsibility.

[Radar]

Running for office was a choice for two reasons. First, I was asked to by the members of my political party, and second I was tired of people whining about not having a better choice. They told me they voted for Maxine Waters only because they had nobody better to vote for. I said that was a lie, and people in my district would vote for her because of her political party, her gender, or her race even though she's one of the 13 most corrupt members of congress.

I ran and gave my district someone better to vote for. They didn't vote for me, but at least they had the chance to and I had the chance to get libertarian ideals out there. It was also fun (and tiring) to go through the political process....collecting signatures, designing, buying, and handing out campaign materials, putting up signs, etc.

In America, people are under the impression that if you aren't a democrat, you're a Republican or vice-versa.

I say no person of honor or character votes against his own conscience on any issue, even if it's the direction his party wants to take. I certainly wouldn't do it. I utterly reject the notion that any candidate has a "collective responsibility" to vote along with his political party when it violates his own beliefs. For that matter, I reject the notion that "collective responsibility" even exists for anything.

I The Libertarian Party is infested with disaffected Republicans. They are stupid enough to claim there is a libertarian way to support the unprovoked, unwarranted, and unconstitutional war in Iraq despite it violating the 2 core beliefs of libertarianism. Clearly they have tossed their values (and souls) out the window.

I would never vote for any of these people even though we're in the same political party. I'd never vote along party lines if they expected me to vote in line with something that violated libertarian principles.

I am not my political party. In fact I am no longer in a political party. I am an individual.