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- Subject: Re: If character isn't an issue ...
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 16:12:36 GMT
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- In <1e64trINNeka@spool.mu.edu>, Marc Rassbach writes:
-
- >In article <Bxqsoo.Cy8@ns1.nodak.edu> green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) write
- >>Have you noticed the clowns that supported Clinton so rabidly still haven't
- >>heard the election's over? They still keep up the childish namecalling like
- >>a bunch of spoiled brats. Come on children, you're supposed to be more
- >>mature than that, at least discuss your objections like adults.
-
- >Reminds me of the clowns that are making excuses about how BAD Clinton
- >is going to be. Like, "He didn't have a mandate." or "If the
- >Republicans had run a REAL conservative." or other such tripe.
-
- Well, Clinton *didn't* have a mandate, but he's still president-elect, isn't
- he? That should be enough. The Constitution only requires a majority of
- electoral votes, and he got that. It's not a perfect system (I'll elaborate
- later), but it's our current law and that's all that matters.
-
- And as far as the "REAL conservative," that's open for debate. What is a REAL
- conservative, and who judges? *My* definition of "conservative," for example,
- is from the libertarian wing of the Republican Party and is perhaps better
- called "Preservationist." We seek to preserve the spirit of the Constitution.
- We don't fight progress, but we would like to see the Constitution upheld along
- the way. Too many federal programs don't do that.
-
- To me, REAL conservatives don't preach messages of intolerance. REAL cons *do*
- speak of hope and prosperity for all while advocating free markets and lower
- taxes. Of these, I feel that Jack Kemp is probably the best example of true
- conservatism today. He advocates lower taxes, less government intervention,
- hope for the inner cities (though some of his urban renewal proposals have been
- more progressive than conservative) and encourages all people to succeed. I
- haven't ever heard Kemp say anything disparaging about alternative lifestyles
- like I heard from the Buchanan-Robertson camp in Houston.
-
- That's my $.02 on conservatism. But then again, I'm a Bill Weld-style
- Republican--the kind that the Libertarian Party has been picking up since the
- speeches of right wing intolerance in Houston.
-
- And now about the electoral college: I think it sucks. I don't think anyone
- should be president with less than 50% of the popular vote. I believe that
- the top two vote-getters should have a runoff in early December. The current
- system can award the presidency to candidates who don't have a majority, and
- has even awarded the presidency to candidates without a *plurality*! The
- current system discourages third party voting, too. I knew many people who
- would have voted for Marrou except that they feared Clinton. So they would
- vote for Bush instead. If a runoff system were held, these people could have
- voted for Marrou in November, without hurting Bush in December. If Clinton
- got 50% + 1 anyway, then the vote was meaningless either way. A runoff would
- allow third party supporters to excape the "lesser of two evils" mentality
- and vote their desires rather than against their fears.
-
-
- Tim Irvin
-