Re: P*ssing off Conservatives

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From: Frank Clarke
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:46

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On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 20:59:08 GMT, NO@NOMAIL.CC (E Right) wrote:

>What is it that people fear from more choices?

Only the entrenched parties fear more choice.  The brouhaha over
"campaign finance reform" provides an excellent case study.

The major parties can have CFR right now without benefit of
legislation simply by making it a party policy: observe these rules or
don't use the party name in your literature.

This makes it all too clear what Bush and Gore meant by 'campaign
finance reform'.  Whose campaign are they looking to reform?
Incumbents' ?  Any incumbent can run a clean campaign and would
certainly do so with great fanfare to the dismay of any opponent.  No,
Bush and Gore (and Republicans and Democrats collectively) mean
something very different when they say 'campaign finance reform': they
mean to reform the way the smaller parties run their campaigns,
squeezing their finances so they will never be anything other than
'one of the smaller parties'.

To break free of the 'small party' mode, a critical mass or either
people or money is necessary (this is the story of the Reform Party,
initially funded largely by H Ross Perot's personal wealth).  CFR as
proposed by both Bush and Gore would remove 'money' as one of the
paths to major party status, and ensure that no upstart party, not
even the Reform Party, will ever seriously challenge them.


Frank Clarke
Florida Libertarian Party

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