I was the first presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party back in 1972, and was the author of the first full-length book, Libertarianism, describing libertarianism in detail. I also wrote the Libertarian Party's Statement of Principles at the first libertarian national convention in 1972. I still believe in those principles as strongly as ever, but this year -- more than any year since the establishment of the Libertarian Party -- I have major concerns about the choices open to us as voting Americans.

There is a belief that's common among many libertarians that there is no essential difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties -- between a John Kerry and a George W. Bush administration; or worse: that a Bush administration would be more undesirable. Such a notion could not be farther from the truth, or potentially more harmful to the cause of liberty.

Read the whole thing, and send it to your libertarian friends who think they're being clever by voting for Baradnik.

Speaking of political splinter groups, there's the most famous Trotskyite for Bush on the planet, the provocateur leftists just can't explain away. And try to hide.

Here's a pagan for Bush.

Even the NYTimes interviews some "undecideds" who are leaning to Bush.

More unlikely Bush voters.

Being in the closet is for sure a frustrating experience. But pinning on that campaign button could get you savaged by your peers or scolded by your mom. Or you might have a pleasant encounter like my conversation today with a barista at the Union Square Starbucks. Obviously not a member of the tribe, he asked me if my "Bush in Hebrew" 2004 button was "some kind of holiday thing." I explained that the Hebrew letters spelled out "Bush." He smiled a huge smile, told me he had been back from Iraq for 6 months, and was voting for Bush. I thanked him for his service and said I was too. The hip NYers in line behind us gave us dirty looks.

Or you might have a restrained but intense argument as I did later in the day at the Westerly health food store on 8th Ave., with an elderly woman who was fascinated by my button, told me she had lived in Israel, and approvingly pulled the Village Voice "Dracula" cover from her purse where she had obviously carefully folded it up and been carrying it for several days. I said that kind of reprehensible rhetoric had turned off many liberals I know (even in Berkeley!) and was one of many reasons Kerry supporters should not get a mandate. She then said the rhetoric wasn't that important and didn't represent the majority. But she had brought it up herself by carrying that cover around in her purse to show people!

Another Democrat for Bush calls the anti-Bushies on that kind of shit.

Some sons of blue-collar Catholic Dems in Philadelphia for Bush, and more in Scranton.

Another first-time Republican voter posts 50 reasons to vote for Bush.

This Democrat changed his mind about Bush after he heard Iraqis talk about the war.

I heard an ex-Iraqi citizen, on the radio, plead with our citizens to understand that we left them before, after the first Gulf War, and we couldn�t ignore their despair. People were terrorized daily by Saddam. They never knew when a knock would come on their door, and a family member would disappear.

When some Hollywood actors protested our decision to enter Iraq, an Iraqi woman wrote a long, passionate editorial to the Los Angeles Times. She, basically, told the celebrities they were very naive and to mind their own business, because war was what was needed to aid the people of Iraq.

I heard an Iraqi man on the radio call in to respond to a female college student who called herself a protestor for peace. He yelled at her, �Shut up you silly girl! You don�t know what you�re talking about. You�re nothing but a silly bird!�

I saw an Assyrian man, on television, who went to Iraq as a human shield to try to protect the Iraqis from the United States. But he came back to our country convinced he had been wrong; rather than protest for peace, we needed to go in. He said that many Iraqi people pulled him aside in secrecy, so Saddam�s people wouldn�t hear (they never knew who was listening for Saddam.) They would tell him that their fear of Saddam was so great that many of the people were suicidal. That many Iraqis relished the idea of a war, if that�s what it would take to change things.

I remember seeing a National Geographic special about Saddam damming and drying up the Marshlands of the World�s oldest living civilization on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. These are only a fraction of the crimes that have been committed against the people of Iraq - just the ones I happened to catch.

As I've said before, I will donate $25 to my favorite charity for each example of an Iraqi speaking from the podium before any of the antiwar rallies around the globe in the past 3 years.

UPDATE: A Manhattan libertarian who needs John Hospers' advice. I sent it to him. There is such a thing as not seeing the forest for the trees, Chris.

UPDATE: Chris, Ann Coulter also thinks you should grow up. She's not one of my favorite people, but she has a point.