http://www.wkowtv.com/global/story.asp?s=11357357

1. DonLake@sbcglo bal.net Says:
July 16th, 2008 at 10:55 am

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I didnt say, anywhere, that Buchanan was my hero. I said i’d vote for him. I like his commentary on many issues. I’d say the same for alot of people. Jim Guest, Ron Paul, Gary Odom, my father, Bill Kauffman, Thomas E. Woods, Robert Taft, Howard Buffett, Justin Raimondo, Chuck Baldwin, and Rick Jore.

If one is leaving the Republican Party because you don’t like it’s direction, why would you want anything to do with the Semi-Republican party for politicos that couldn’t hack it in the REAL Republican party…

Knowing what I know now, I’m tending to think that if I wasn’t already a member of the LP, I sure wouldn’t be interested in joining it…. I’m mostly sticking around for now because I have commitments that obligate me until after the election. Once we are past November, I’m very seriously considering leaving the LPUS, though possibly not the LPMA (and there has been some discussion within the LPMA State Committee about leaving the LPUS and re-affiliating with some other entity, though it isn’t clear which one…)

ART
LPMA Operations Facilitator
LPMA Presidential Elector – NOT voting for Barr!
Elected Libertarian
Speaking only for myself

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/022030.html

Says Lew:

“Pat is a great star even when he is wrong. Today, asked by Mike Barnicle to explain Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he ignored their roots in the New Deal, when they were State institutions, and the role of the Nixon administration in their phony “privatization,” their transformation from socialist operations into fascist ones. Pat, these are NOT capitalist companies. Yes, the salaries and perks of their politically appointed fat cats are outrageous, because they are not market salaries and perks. Pat also mentioned Countrywide in that regard, but this is a State-connected, politically protected firm as well. It is the Fed, the banks, and Fannie-Freddie that made the mortgage bubble possible, and they must be blamed, not the free market. Oh–and Pat notes that a Lehman Brothers has to be bailed out unlike GM because it is tied into so many other firms. Huh? And GM isn’t? There is a reason that GM’s closing does not threaten Ford or Toyota–just the opposite–whereas the banks and financial houses can pull each other down. They are hyper-leveraged, thanks to the Fed and its boom, and hold lots of bad paper–as Pat noted. But the whole system is at risk and fundamentally corrupt because banks have fractional reserves. What would be criminal conduct in normal corporations is, thanks to State privilege, SOP for banks.”

At least Buchanan doesn’t claim to be a libertarian and mostly wears his right-wing populist/anti-capitalist identity on his sleeve.