Niagara LP - it's not for everyone ...

Thursday morning, I devoted my show to the topic of the Niagara County Libertarian Party and why Niagara County needs a new political party.

I didn't expect a lot of phone calls - It was more informational that conversational - and I didn't get many. But I did get one from a woman who was upset about the Libertarian stance on narcotics.

I think she thought she was telling me something I didn't know - that the Libertarian Party would like to legalize drugs.

Of course, I was familiar with this platform position and I, personally, endorse it. The thought is that if you do something in the privacy of your own home and it doesn't effect anyone but yourself, there shouldn't be a law preventing it. Or as I put it yesterday, "If you sit in your basement and get baked while watching That '70s Show, how does that effect me?"

But the caller was opposed to that part of the Libertarian Party. I gathered from her reaction that she opposed it to the degree where it negated the LP from serious consideration for her.

That's fine. You can't please all the people all the time.

In fact, I certainly didn't please another listener with the same discussion.

(S)He was upset that I would contend that it should be okay to do drugs in your basement and immediately wrote an email to the station owner saying (s)he was going to write the FCC.

There's another person who won't be in the Libertarian Party.

Fortunately, that's only two people from Niagara County that have voiced opposition so for. We still have 219,998 potential members to go.