The libertarians are starting to get some good commercials together, perhaps it is time for some real political refom?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvsADU2OOWM

I liked Montana Senator Jon Testor's buzz cut advertisement from last November's elections.

I like most of this ad but I need to see more ads before I give the .

Brilliant ad!

Ten and half minutes isn't an ad, it's a miniseries!!

Of course, the "ad" reveals two weakeness of the Libertarian party: pro-drugs and isolationism.

Oh yeah, like those other things have worked out for us so well LOL

BTW- Amlord- that gets to be a great comeback after awhile about both parties-

When my dad is griping about liberals and Dems, I get to say "your guys had a chance pops, and they sucked, thier ideology sucked, and you know what- none of what they said ever worked-

Ya, that whole nation building and prohibition really worked out for us, you can see the results!"

I can guarantee you one thing: no soccer mom is going to vote for a candidate who says we should legalize drugs. Nobody with an ounce of sense will vote for an wholly isolationist candidate who says we should leave the rest of the world to do as it pleases. Those two issues are killers for the Libertarian party.

Isolationism and the ever softening open boarder policy of the LP are my only real fundamental disagreements with them. No soccer Mom will vote for a pro-drug legalization candidate, that's a fact...Assuming that pro-drug legalization candidate is prevented from explaining WHY he is pro-drug legalization. Ron Paul is very rarely on television and is even more rarely asked substantive questions about his policy...and he's a Republican Presidential candidate. The fact is that most people have knee jerk reaction; when they here anti-drug war they translate that into "anarchist" or "nut" and write the anti-drug war individual off immediately. Great ad though, CR.

CP

Hey- so we lose the moron vote- we weren't going to win anyway- why should we care?

I thought the drug harmonisation and non-interventionism messages were quite good.

What bugged me was the subliminal message that not paying taxes was somehow a good idea. Surely the thing to do is to pay the taxes that exist without complaint, but campaign to have their rates lowered or abolished.

Is urging people to defy the law sensible political campaigning?

If so, why wasn't the ad urging people to smoke dope and go on anti-war demonstrations, instead of just mealy-mouthing about not asking awkward questions and meekly going along with foreign policy?

I guess it goes back to the peculiarly American idea that taxes are inherently a bad thing to be minimised at all costs (usually to the point where the military is the only thing funded from the public purse. That's working out really well, because the military budget isn't a black hole for corporate enrichment every bit as scandalous as tobacco subsidy and an order of magnitude larger, is it?