They played me like a cheap fiddle for a LONG time but I'm over it now!
Better late than never.
I told them where to shove it after Newtie and his Blowfish in 1998 came up with a budget that called for more spending than even Droopy-Drawers Clinton
asked for . . .
that, folks, and
not the Clinton impeachment, was why they blew enough seats in the election, while those few Republicans who
had the stones to stare Newtie down and tell him that kind of crap was
not what they signed up for actually got re-elected. Impressing Newtie not
one iota until enough in the House finally found the
cojones to force him to quit before they could fire him as Speaker of the House. And he had
the audacity to say
they were acting like cannibals.
I registered Libertarian right then and there. Staying that way until Harry Browne proved that as an economist he was effective and pungent but as a
political candidate he was wholly capable of behaving like a Chicago machine politician. (He strong-armed enough of the party apparatus into funneling
funds to his campaign
against the party's rule that no funds go to a candidate until or unless he or she has the party's endorsement; and, his
people took over enough of the machinery to obstruct anyone trying to get to the bottom of the shenanigans, including and especially writers for
Liberty magazine, a journal that had long supported the LP but wasn't any too thrilled about being treated like that, which didn't quite stop them
from getting the full low-down on the Browne shenanigans.) Then, I registered independent. And remain that way.
And where is Newt Gangrene now? He's one of Donaldus Minimus's most reliable shills.
