In Sunday’s edition, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution profiles Georgia Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Allen Buckley, “a metro Atlanta attorney and CPA,” who “believes he has an issue that’s a winner — if he can only get voters to pay attention.” Buckley says the U.S. “is burying itself in debt, creating a crushing financial burden for our children and grandchildren and — unless it’s reduced — assuring the demise of the nation. The only way out of the mess, he said, is to cut spending, and he has a heavy-handed plan to get that done.”

Buckley “wants to trim back Medicare benefits expanded under Republican rule and hold a national referendum that would permit voters to either reduce Social Security benefits or — as a last resort — increase taxes to continue currently projected benefits. He would close most overseas military bases, but he wants to maintain strong armed forces. He would force a balanced federal budget — primarily through reducing entitlement programs and eliminating some government agencies. And he wants to dump the U.S. Department of Education and replace it with educational governance at the local level.” He “has raised about $15,300 for the 2008 race, including $5,000 the party gave him for the filing fee.”