Comments on: Boston Tea Party update

By: JimDavidson

JimDavidson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:39:07 +0000

CT, dude, you are just aces. I really love your sardonic sense of humor.

I don’t think I’m moving toward Catholic Trotskyism, although I may have an incipient congenital disorder that would cause such a tendency. My mother is an anarchist, but she hung out with a lot of Trotskyites in the 1940s and 1950s. Her FBI file says, among other things, that she was a “premature anti-Stalinist” which is their clever way of accusing her of being a Trotskyite. She wasn’t, but she knew a bunch – Max Schachtman, e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Shachtman

You should see if you can get an entry in wikipedia’s series on Trotskyism for Catholic Trotskyism.

I do write about being blessed. I have done my best to follow the teachings of Jesus. It is not always easy.

Stop the wars.

By: Catholic Trotskyist

Catholic Trotskyist — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:06:19 +0000

Jim Davidson talks about being blessed. Blessing is a form of obedience to God. Therefore, Jim is obviously moving more and more towards Catholic Trotskyism.

Stop the war, amen.

By: JimDavidson

JimDavidson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:37:41 +0000

I don’t think we ever had a goal of getting the same percentage result as Hospers. I certainly feel we were extremely blessed to find groups of activists in three states to put Charles on the ballot. That was one more than the LP had for Hospers, and probably represents the greater level of libertarian activism now – due in no small part to the long grand history of LP activism.

Stop the war.

By: JimDavidson

JimDavidson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:35:54 +0000

Sorry, I meant Darcy in the second instance.

Stop the war.

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:06:53 +0000

Probably more than the current difference between Jay and Hospers, but we’ll see. I’m not sure it will make up for the difference in the size of the electorate since then.

By: JimDavidson

JimDavidson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:58:53 +0000

It’s clear that the official tally of ballot votes for Charles is substantially lower than for Hospers. I think there would have been some more votes in Florida without the Dagny Barnes episode. That would have gone better, and at least one more vote, from John Wayne Smith, would have been cast if Charles and Dagny hadn’t been so…weird about it.

My understanding is that there were 10 states where Charles was registered as a write-in, and there are about ten other states where writing him in required no advanced registration. I’ve no idea how many to expect, though.