{"id":1798,"date":"2022-11-01T15:06:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/losertarian-update\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:06:48","slug":"losertarian-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/losertarian-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Losertarian Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A tip of the hat to Dmitri Dain for sending us <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3713966-arizonas-libertarian-senate-candidate-dropping-out-of-race-endorsing-masters\/\">here<\/a> where we read:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Libertarian Marc Victor dropped out of Arizona\u2019s closely watched Senate race on Tuesday, encouraging voters to cast their ballots for Republican&#0160;<span class=\"person-popover\" data-nid=\"112018\"><a class=\"person-popover__link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/blake-masters\/\">Blake Masters&#0160;<\/a><\/span>in his challenge to Sen.&#0160;<span class=\"person-popover\" data-nid=\"31182\"><a class=\"person-popover__link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/mark-kelly\/\">Mark Kelly&#0160;<\/a><\/span>(D).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Polls had shown Victor garnering support in the low single digits, but his small bloc of supporters could provide a critical boost to Masters, as surveys show the Republican only trailing Kelly by a few percentage points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDon\u2019t vote for Marc Victor for Senate, vote for Blake Masters,\u201d Victor said on Tuesday. \u201cBlake\u2019s in a very tight race here with Mark Kelly, and I want to see him win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Victor met virtually with Masters prior to dropping out of the race and&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ismjOQNzsIA\">posted a video of their roughly 20-minute conversation<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Hats off to Marc Victor for his good sense. To vote for him would have been utter folly since it is (a) certain that he would not have been elected and (b) certain that he would have siphoned off votes needed by the impressive Blake Masters to defeat the disgusting Mark Kelly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Once more: politics is a practical game. Without the power to implement your policies, they are nothing but hot air and paper. Don&#39;t throw away your vote on unelectables. Don&#39;t confuse a political party with a discussion society.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Marc&#0160; Victor is a local gun guy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GenVQQoAu6k\">Here<\/a> is one of his videos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XucT-fBZnXE\">Here<\/a> is another. He talks sense!&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tip of the hat to Dmitri Dain for sending us here where we read: Libertarian Marc Victor dropped out of Arizona\u2019s closely watched Senate race on Tuesday, encouraging voters to cast their ballots for Republican&#0160;Blake Masters&#0160;in his challenge to Sen.&#0160;Mark Kelly&#0160;(D). Polls had shown Victor garnering support in the low single digits, but his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/losertarian-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Losertarian Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,276,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-libertarianism","category-political-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}