Reason magazine: on Principles & Values
John Buckley:
Cousin to William F. Buckley; long background in GOP
John Buckley, cousin to William F. Buckley, had a long personal background in Republican Party and conservative movement politics, including a stint running Young Americans for Freedom in the 1970s. He won a state legislative seat in Virginia in 1979.
He lost his seat after one term and says that "by the early '90s
I had soured on the Republican Party as a vehicle for expressing my political principles"--not because his principles had changed that much, or even that the Party's lip service stated principles had,
but that no Republicans seemed to act on the free-market side of their message.
Source: Reason magazine Q&A on 2014 West Virginia Senate race
Jul 24, 2014
Justin Amash:
Don't need same rules from community to community
I want to live in a country where people feel they have freedom to make decisions for their own lives and where people live respectfully with one another. If someone has a difference of opinion, someone has a different perspective on how things might
work, we can all live together, and we don't all have to have the same exact rules from community to community. That's why we have a system of federalism: different people can live in different places and make different choices about their lives.
Source: Reason magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
May 1, 2020
Justin Amash:
Pushed libertarian ideas into Republican Party
I've been a libertarian my whole life, a small l libertarian. And I brought that to Congress and served in Congress as a small l libertarian for more than nine years and was able to bring those principles to the table and to fight for libertarian
principles. I thought genuinely that I could make the Republican party a more libertarian party, because they espoused some principles, at least on paper, that were closer to libertarianism than what we see today.
Source: Reason magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
May 1, 2020
Justin Amash:
Blessing to be born here; this is the best country on Earth
My parents are both immigrants and they were welcomed here to the United States. My dad was welcomed as a refugee, and that, I'm sure, made a big difference in his life and a big difference in my mom's life, in how they integrated and how they felt
about America as a country. And that was instilled in me as a child where I understood what a blessing it was to be born in this country, and how much better off we have it than so many other countries in the world. This is the best country on earth.
Source: Reason magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
May 1, 2020
Mike Gravel:
2008: YouTube political "video art" went viral
During his anti-war, anti-IRS, pro-direct-democracy presidential campaign of 2008, Gravel appeared in some of the most remarkable campaign spots of the 21st century (Gravel refused to call them ads). They came out in 2007, when YouTube was young and
weird online political videos still felt novel.So it stood out when Gravel released The Rock, a satori-inducing clip in which the former senator stares silently at the camera for more than a minute, then turns, heaves a rock into a body of water,
watches it splash, and walks away.
Or Fire, which begins with some brief footage of the candidate hiking through the woods before settling in for a Warholian seven-minute shot of the blaze.
But the best Gravel video, the one that truly captures
the late-hippie ethos of the campaign, is a mash-up of John Lennon, and Duck and Cover [entitled "power to the people vs give peace a chance"]. It made me feel like voting for the guy, and I say that as someone who never feels like voting for anyone:
Source: Reason Magazine on 2020 Democratic primary YouTube video
Mar 22, 2019
Ted Cruz:
One-time critic of Trump ready to argue case on his behalf
Trump personally asked Cruz to represent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit challenging election procedures in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. By his own account, Cruz is now committed to defending an amoral, narcissistic,
unprincipled, utterly dishonest bully. Whatever credit the Cruz of 2016 deserved for telling the truth about Trump has dissolved in a bath of cowardly sycophancy drawn by a politician who is terrified of alienating the president's supporters.
Source: Reason Magazine on 2024 Presidential Hopefuls
Dec 13, 2020
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