Okay, okay, calm down. Let me explain. It seems to me that the two favorites for the 2008 pander-a-thon are McCain and Hillary. Shudder. Cringe.
I despise the politics of both. They are both horrible on everything. Senator McCain might be a tad better than President Bush on torture, but a President McCain is hard to predict. McCain is terrible on the issues on which conservatives are supposed to be good: gun control, campaign finance censorship, etc.
Hillary is, if anything, worse. That's my view and I'm sticking to it. She's as bad on war and civil liberties as the worst fascists on the right, and she also wants to nationalize the nation's children because it takes a village to mess up the world as much as she would like to.
Okay, so why is there a case for Hillary? Why would any libertarian think that she would be preferable to McCain?
Opposition. Liberals like McCain. They love him. All he has to do is promise to grab our guns and forbid donations to political candidates, and they somehow ignore his bloodthirstiness. If McCain is president, especially after eight unbelievable years of the smirking chimp, I expect more universal support for everything he wants to do.
On the other hand, conservatives hate Hillary. If she tried to do half the oppressive things Shrub has done, they'd be marching in the streets. The conservatives were at their best in the 1990s, under Clinton, and their resistance to his excesses helped to slow down the growth of the state. They'd probably be even more on guard under Hillary, and will see what they have wrought with all the power they defended in Bush's hands now that it's in hers.
So while Hillary is worse than John, there will be more tacit consent from the people if he's in power, and thus more power for the state. It's all counterintuitive. And I am not in any way advocating a vote or a dime for either campaign! I can also think of reasons to prefer McCain — for example, I think a Democratic Hillary could possibly get away with more war than a Republican. But I gotta say, you know things are messed up when there's any case to be made for Hillary Clinton.
