Via email from Jim Burns, who is seeking the Libertarian Party 2012 Presidential nomination:
Dear Paul,
There will be a giant leap forward toward libertarianism
when individual libertarians accept and practice these words
of wisdom from the Englishman, Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797):
“No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing
because he could do only a little.”
Harry Reid, in 1974, first ran for the United States Senate against
Paul Laxalt and lost by 624 votes. In 1998, Reid won re-election
against John Ensign by 423 votes: His nick name – Landslide Harry.
The last six polls I have heard here in Nevada have all been within
the margin of error. The race will likely be decided by a few hundred
votes.
We can stop Senator Harry Reid.
I believe that getting people to vote for a candidate could be
compared to getting people to buy something. Many libertarians
act as if we have a store (and it happens to be a small, hard to find,
and ill equipped store): We expect people to seek out and find our
store and get what they want from our store even if our store is
sometimes served by an underappreciated clerk or even no clerk.
I suggest that we seek out customers, that we go door to door via
US postcards, but only to the customers we want and ask them to
vote for the candidate of our choice. The more voters we ask to
vote for us, the more sales, that is votes, we will get.
Sincerely,
Jim Burns
PO Box 1139
Beatty, NV 89003
541-261-4163
702-722-9494
PS: How about an experiment? With your permission, I send
you 8 ready to go postcards. When you get the cards show
them to anyone you come across that does not like Reid and
tell them what the cards can do. (The cards ask dems to vote
for another candidate than Reid.) See if you can sell any of the
cards for $.65 each or more, I think that a reasonable price is
$.75 each. See if anyone (your LP group or anyone who does
not like Reid) likes the idea, see if they can and want to sell the
cards. See if you can make a profit, even if it is small, it is for a
good cause. You could use the profit for any campaign or
anything else. Since there is no limit on how many postcards
a person may buy, I would point out that if you found just one rich
person to buy the cards, your efforts could be worth your time.
I ask two more things. 1. That you mail the cards on or before
October 9th and, 2. That when you put the cards in the mail, you tell
yourself that you are doing a good thing and see if it makes you
feel better. If you do feel better send me my cost of $4.50. If not
no harm no foul, and forget it
Send me your US mailing address and I’ll send you the postcards.