A Libertarian for President, The Freeway -- Jim Burns for President

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Changing how Libertarian Party Candidates are perceived

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Jim Burns for President
The Freeway

Jim Burns

I should be President

I will be President

These are bold statements from an old, bald, fat, white guy. I offer two roads to defend my statements: The "scenic route" where I present a leisurely and fuller offering of gentle persuasion and the "freeway" in the LA tradition of the old TV show Dragnet of "just the facts".

Please, feel welcome on either road. Travel as much as you like. The Freeway has off ramps to the scenic route so feel free to travel either road as often as you like. Stay on the Freeway or click here for the scenic route: The 93% Solution

I should be President because when I am, I'll have friends to help in the quest: 34 Libertarians in the Senate. I'll have a compass to guide the way: libertarianism. And, I'll have a map to navigate the journey: The United States Constitution.

I must have 34 friends in the Senate because if I don't I will not last a month as President. The Congress will pass unjust laws that I will not enforce and then the Congress will remove me from office for failing to comply with their edicts. But with the 34, we will maintain my veto and I shall stay in office and what needs to be done will be done.

Libertarianism will be my compass. I believe, with other libertarians, that no one should initiate force, threaten to initiate force, or engage in fraud against others: that people should be allowed to live as they choose so long as they allow others to do the same. In other words, "live and let live."

The United States Constitution gives libertarianism a strong advantage. If we have the Presidency and 34 Senators, we could enforce the Constitutional restrains on government. You know, no federal drug laws, personal income tax, Federal Reserve, Department of Education, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Election Commission, etc. you know, limited federal government.

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That's the why I should be President. Now, the how. I will be president

I propose a two step program.

Step One: To have the ability to determine who wins elections.

Many political races are close. The pie chart on the right demonstrates the Democrat incumbent has an advantage, possibly due to gerrymandering.

With just a small nudge, if the Libertarian candidate receives 3% of the incumbent's vote, the Republican wins.

Many other political races are close. The pie chart to the right demonstrates the Republican incumbent has the gerrymandering advantage.

With just a small nudge, if the Libertarian candidate receives 3% of the incumbent's vote, the Democrat wins.

A way to take votes away from a major candidate is to use direct mail, seeking out the voters we wish to influence and make persuasive libertarian arguments that the major candidate dare not make. Remember we only need a small percentage to impact the election, but to achieve even this requires money.

With the ability to determine who will in many cases win elections, we will attract money from non-libertarians who want their candidate to win and other benefits such as providing a market for libertarians to develop skills in campaign management at a profit.

Step Two: Winning

To win we must have enough money to be completive and take advantage of the strategy of taking votes away from the major opponents in cooperation with others. The other minor party candidates need to have enough money to achieve their influence.

Libertarian 30%

Democrat 29%

Republican 27%

Left-Wing i.e. Green 7%

Right-Wing i.e. Constitution 7%

Total 100%

A Libertarian Winner

The race for President is actually 50 different winner take all races. To get the biggest bang for the bucks, we could go for the states that are smallest in population. We can win the Presidency economically if we compete in enough of the correct smaller states to get 270 electoral votes.

To win the Senate seats we need we use the same strategy.

Where do we get the money? We need 36 rich people and more support than we have now. We attract this support by changing how we are perceived. We become winners.

The first step to change how we are perceived is to have the ability to determine who wins. To take the next step -- step one -- please click here to go to the web site of Porcupine Management.

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I wish to thank Mr. L. Reichard White for his help in writing and editing this essay. Credit if credit is due goes to him, if criticism is appropriate, of course, that belongs to me. Click here for articles by Mr. White -- where he gets the blame as well as the credit.