After offering “unsolicited advice” to Bob Barr, LRC blogger and Denver convention speaker Anthony Gregory posted some kind words about Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney. Gregory says the former Democratic congresswoman is “great on most civil liberties, foreign policy questions, good on the prison system, good on certain corporatist trade deals, and has been one of the most principled opponents of the Iraq war, willing to vote against funding it, unlike most Democrats.”
Gregory also praises McKinney’s attempt to impeach George W. Bush “for crimes far worse than the ones for which Clinton was impeached in the mostly histrionic Republican crusade in the late 1990s.”
A pair of libertarians I respect greatly said they were considering starting Libertarians for McKinney. I was more for Baldwin. However, after reading this from Gregory, I’m going to keep an open mind.
Sure, McKinney has proven that she can control the federal bureaucracy. If any of those lowly govt workers get out of line she just slugs em!
It’s too late for impeachment.
As for ““great on most civil liberties, foreign policy questions, good on the prison system, good on certain corporatist trade deals”
Since when has McKinney or the Green Party stood right (for a libertarian” for any of these?
As for drug war issues, they want to cut back on arrests and institute “treatment programs”…basically, turning substituting a bureaucracy of “therapists” for todays jailers….
“…good on certain corporatist trade deals…” means only that in Gregory’s opinion she has got some things right on the issue of corporate welfare while getting some things very wrong.
Again, Anthony Gregory has every right to disagree with Barr but saying McKinney is better for libertarians is insultingly misleading.
Not a McKinney supporter and I think the Green Party is dead because of their own foolishness, but I think I would vote McKinney before I would vote Barr for many of the reasons Gregory mentions.