I am the great satan!

I actually remember reading this interview about Defending the Undefendable in which Block said this about voting

About the elections in U.S.A. What’s the right strategy for Walter Block? No vote? A vote for the libertarian party? Or a vote for the libertarian-wing of the GOP?

I advocate voting for the Libertarian Party. I would do so myself were I to vote, but I’m much too lazy to do any such thing. Also, juries are selected on the basis of voting, so that is another reason for people such as myself, who like to write a lot, not to vote.

The only member of the Republican party I am aware of who is a libertarian is Ron Paul, representative from Texas (and former LP presidential candidate). Otherwise the GOP is a wasteland, from a liberty point of view. As to the LP, they aren’t perfect (e.g., every candidate doesn’t always agree with me on everything – I’m just kidding). But by and large they have remained true to libertarianism, and I am very pleased with them. I speak at LP functions, and donate money to them.

The whole interview is here: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6181/block.htm

I’m not sure that would be any worse, in terms of its effect on other people.

I don’t think that’s the way to go about it; that’s the same failed strategy that’s been tried over and over again!

Barr is a moderate libertarian with moderate rhetoric and a moderate-but-still-too-radical agenda; we need a radical libertarian with radical rhetoric and a moderate-and-passable agenda!

No. That’s not what we need, that’s what you singular want.

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-Jon

No, it’s what we need.

Running unelectable moderate (right-leaning) libertarians does nothing but hurt the libertarian brand, furthering the wild-eyed notion that we’re just radical Republicans who never really intend to win.