Jim Davies for President

Electability

There are about 240 million persons in America of voting age, but only half of them generally turn out to vote. Those who do have, by virtue of that fact, abandoned any pretense to rationality and we can write most of them off as pro-government zombies. This campaign will therefore focus on the remaining half.

The benefits summarized on the WITFY Page apply to them just as much as to traditional voters, so it should not be too hard to get their attention; and at this amazing phase of history we have the means to do so in the Internet.

Not all of them are on the Net, alas; but most are, and that includes those who usually don't vote. The Net, therefore, is how this candidacy will be promoted and very little money will be needed.

To win, I need a little over one third of the votes, assuming that as usual the Rs and Ds split about evenly. That plurality will propel me to the White House.

The method will be to rely entirely upon you, my existing supporters. All you will have to do is to use your email address book to pass on the news of this candidacy to those you know, and persuade one of them to do the same. Ask them to forget politics as usual and focus on "WITFY". And, of course, make sure they all register to vote and turn out on voting day and write-in my name. By using the simple write-in method, all the soul-destroying work and draining expense of soliciting ballot-access petition signatures will be bypassed.

Do that once per week between mid-May and end-October, and we shall win.

Check the math; suppose that in mid-May there are 100 supporters. By that method, the total will double every week. It will exceed a very ample 52 million in only 19 weeks, leaving 5 spare for contingencies.

The Party

Is it worth bothering to seek the official LP nomination? - I very much doubt it. "Official" candidates have never attracted more than one million votes anyway, so that expensive route has a poor track record to commend it; the above plan for success does not depend on the LP's endorsement at all. So it would be simpler just to add the word "Independent" to my write-in candidacy; ie Jim Davies, Independent Libertarian for President. But those who differ are welcome to say so, preferably with some money to support the advice.

The Bad News

The bad news is that I did not have the foresight to be born in the United States, and so by the rules set by our opponents I would not be allowed to take office when elected. This problem is nontrivial.

I'm also currently not a citizen, though that could be fixed fairly quickly. That problem is secondary to the first.

The solution needs some further research but the simplest will be for someone else (who did start life within the Union) to take my place. The name at the head of each page is easy to change, and the candidacy is focused entirely on the content and not at all upon the personality, which is virtually unknown anyway. This web site and platform and set of ideas is available to whomever appears to me best suited to the task. Please form a line!

The Worse News

This is that once I or whoever takes over this candidacy is elected, there is a very serious risk of getting assassinated. That's because the promised program will demolish the entire Federal Government and dislodge all of the most powerful suckers at the public teat in the entire world; they will not turn easily to an honest living.

Body armor alone won't do the trick; we'll need to form a task force to figure out how to neutralize this danger. And, of course, the candidate must be willing to put his life on the line.

I am. I can think of no more valuable way to spend it.

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