Listen here to the Munger for Governor ad that will air next week during morning drive time in Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh on WBT, WZTK, and WPTF.

If you disagree with something you hear me say, then fine, I lost a vote. But if you never even get to hear me, then you've lost a choice. Friends, I'm not even asking for your vote yet, I just want a fair chance to compete for it.

I did not know this was the ad strategy when I wrote this, it just seemed like the smart way to go.

Here's Munger keynoting the 2008 Libertarian national convention.

Comments

[Jeffrey Sykes]

I admire Libertarians, most of the time, and I have advocated for others to sign the petition allowing ballot access, but when I hear him talk about getting in your car and driving it without a license, I have to turn him off.

That is so not realistic, I wouldn't know where to begin. It's like they live in a dream world where everybody plays nice and no one is out to steal my car or forge my checks.

Hasn't he ever watched the First 48? Nine times out of 10 the police investigation starts with the photo id in the dead guys pocket.

Munger should spend some time with police on the beat, or magistrates in the jail basement, and then come back and tell us why we shouldn't have to carry a driver's license.

Reminds me of how my legislator describes a Libertarian: "Someone with a shotgun waiting alongside a dirt road for the mail that never comes."

[James]

Munger doesn't believe half the stuff he's saying. He's smarter than that.

For example, he says in this speech (or should I say "reads" in this speech the following: "Libertarians are for limitless possibility for everyone." And then he turns right around and denigrates one particular possibility - the possibility of government.

This short-sighted extremism is why Libertarians go nowhere fast. And it's a shame, really. If they truly were open to unlimited possibility, the role of government would be embraced with equal appreciation as the role of volunteerism, capitalism, religion, whatever.

Plus, Munger has signed onto the TABOR nonsense, probably because he would have been booted out of the Libertarian Party if he hadn't. He's smarter than that.

[Ed Cone]

I was a little surprised by his speech at the LP convention -- although it was, of course, a speech at the LP convention -- because he has in the past disavowed the libertopian fallacy.

[Beelzebubba]

Every citizen should be compelled to present the correct information when an agent of an imagined authority says "your papers please." Institutions are now the fountainhead of social order. A victim of a murder on TV will miss some oppurtunity in paradise if he is killed without proper identification. We can now legislate and moralize ourselves into a society of perpetual war to maintain perpetual peace. The plastic card which numbers, catalogues, computerizes and depersonalizes us will herd us in the right direction. We have only to do what we are told.

[Jeffrey Sykes]

Beelze:

Right, and I see the black helicopters outside your house right now.

Do the words "well regulated" mean anything to you?

[Beelzebubba]

I am most comfortable when my bowels are well regulated but I find it somewhat distressful when any outside agency gets a hankering to go up inside them with any type of device, literally or metaphorically. There is a well regulated group that appears to bend over and assume the position upon the command of any janitor in a labcoat or Plundercrat with a flagpin and a promise. Those types give me violent sphincter spasms. Some prefer the coercion-to each his or her own.

[E. Cone Levy]

I'm disappointed with the Libertarians lately. Usually they provide interesting alternatives to the often worthless major candidates. However, this time they've chosen to run a former Klansman for Pres....

[Ian McDowell]

My main experiences with Libertarians have been through either meeting prominent Libertarian science fiction writers or in observing the behavior of the small group of Libertarians who hung out at Tate Street Coffee back in the late 90s, all of whom my then-roommate was friends with.

In neither case was I impressed. The Libertarian SF writers all struck me as cranks, and several of them reminded me of slightly more socialized versions of John Goodman's Walter from THE BIG LEBOWSKI, down to physical appearance. Mind you, most science fiction writers are weird-looking opinionated blowhards, but these guys stood out even in that company.

The Tate Street Coffee group was even worse. No, despite their meeting place, they were not UNCG students, or at least not undergraduate ones, as they they all seemed to be in their thirties. Ironically, they reminded me more of stereotypical science fiction fans than the Libertarian SF writers I've met did; they were to a man overweight, ungroomed, smelly, and profoundly geeky. But unlike most SF fans, they were also loud, aggressively confrontational and completely unaware of their own geekiness. Indeed, they swaggered like frat boys.

They were finally, as a group, kicked out of Tate Street Coffee because of their habit of sitting there and loudly dissing women and homosexuals while playing chess and swapping Ayn Rand books. Last I heard, they were having weekly meetings Borders.

The least obnoxious Libertarian I know once conceded to me that he felt the philosophy was in danger of becoming "a cult for pudgy white guys with discretionary income." I'm not saying he's right, and he actually didn't fit that stereotype, but almost every other one I've met has.