Loboazul@aol.com                               November 17, 1994

Blue Wolf, is it?

Great address, and I really enjoyed your message.  You _bet_ my
release is up for discussion.  Wouldn't have it any other way.

LOBO> I don't have your faith in Rush ...

It isn't a matter of faith, believe me -- and as a Libertarian, there
are plenty of times I disagree with him, often emotionally, sometimes
enough to make me turn the radio off.  But it's a matter of decent
manners (if nothing else) to acknowledge that he may have saved the
Republic singlehandedly, by getting (to use your stirring words)
"conservative Republicans and others ... up off their butts for one
of the few times in their lives [to take] their country's destiny in
their own hands and [demand] change ... "  No matter how mad he makes
me at times, I don't think it would have happened without him (a poll
he quoted a couple of nights ago correlating talk radio listenership to
Republican voting corroborates this) and it would be churlish to deny it.

LOBO> [Rush] has praised Newt in recent days in more glowing terms
LOBO> than I ever heard him refer to either Jesus Christ or Thomas
LOBO> Jefferson.  Is there irony in your words?
LOBO> I like Newt.  I think Newt has a genuine philosophy and
LOBO> vocation ... By the same token, I'm a human, I put my pants
LOBO> on one leg at a time. I can be wrong.

I sincerely hope you're not.  Like Phil Gramm, Prime Minister Gingrich
has been sounding awfully good (even somewhat Libertarian) over the
past week or so, and, in just the opposite manner that would be the
case if these guys were liberals, I find it oddly encouraging that
they're both former academics.

=BUT=  I keep remembering that Newt was the guy who introduced a bill a
couple of years ago that would have suspended the Bill of Rights "for
the duration" of the war on drugs (one of the major items conservatives
are going to have to grow up about), so I'm reserving judgement for
the time being, and urging Second Amendment activists to continue
moving ahead under their own steam.  We have to make life absolutely
miserable for Republicans in power until they repeal every last gun
law on the books -- or get shoved aside by those who will.

LOBO> If those folks we empowered ... don't take care of business
LOBO> ... I will gleefully vote them into Libertarian Hell ... in
LOBO> the next election.

I'll remember that you said that -- and hold "you" (meaning everybody)
to it when the time comes.  LP candidates put up with plenty of grief
-- "you'll waste your vote! ... or was it "you'll shoot your eye
out!" -- they didn't deserve from GOP and NRA types in this election,
including radio spots in Michigan slamming our guy in favor of a
criminal geek who voted _for_ the crime bill.  So now Republicans have
won the day, but it remains to be seen what they will do with it, and
who will have wasted his vote.  I hope they understand -- and remember
-- that the 1996 campaign began at 7:00:01 P.M, November 8th.

LSAC> ... Libertarians will use power -- if Republicans are
LSAC> unwise enough to hand it to them ...

LOBO> One of the things I have always admired about Libertarians is
LOBO> they have not been content to stand in the political welfare
LOBO> line ... If you are content to wait for either of the major
LOBO> parties to hand you power, you missed something in Ms. Rand's
LOBO> philosophy ...

No, Lobo, it was _here_ that I was being ironic.  One thing that makes
the LSAC different -- and a bit unpopular among "established" LP types
-- is that we're very aggressive and disinclined to take "no" for an
answer.  We're making detailed and ambitious plans now for the next
decade that only depend in a tactical way, not a strategic one, on
what other people do.  Watch this space.  As I said, for us, the
election is _never_ over.

Keep in touch,
Neil

Cc: libernet@dartmouth.edu, roc@xmission.com