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October 08, 2014 11:31 AM UTC

Laura Woods' anti-freedom stance on personhood turns off libertarian blogger

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  • by: Jason Salzman
Laura Waters Woods
Laura Waters Woods

If you don't know about Ari Armstrong's "Defend Liberty Always" blog, you should take a look at it. In this post, Armstrong, who's a detail-oriented, deep-thinking libertarian, explains why he can't vote for state senate candidate Laura Woods.

I confess that I tried not to look too closely at the Republican candidate for my Colorado senate district (number 19), Laura Woods, because I was afraid of what I might find. After gleefully witnessing the fall of Evie Hudack following her reckless, Bloomberg-inspired campaign against peaceable gun owners (after which Democrats replaced her with Rachel Zenzinger, now the Democratic candidate), I really wanted the seat to turn Republican.

After the fiascos of ObamaCare (implications of which played out in the state legislature), the Democrats’ persecution of gun owners, the Democrats’ war on energy producers and consumers, and other matters, this would have been an excellent year for the GOP to punish the Democrats and win back some seats. But, Republicans being Republicans (aka “The Stupid Party”), Republicans in my district nominated a candidate I cannot possible vote for.

Thus, just a couple of weeks after announcing I planned to vote a straight-Republican ticket, I now have to make an exception and declare that I cannot and will not vote for Laura Woods. The basic problem is that Woods enthusiastically endorses total abortion bans, including the insane and horrific “personhood” measure on the ballot this year.

Armstrong writes frequently and thoughtfully about how personhood amendments would violate the basic freedoms a women should have in America. Woods went too far down the personhood path for Armstrong.

And if other self-identifying libertarian pundits in town, like the Independence Institute's Jon Caldara, are going to be consistent, they should agree with Armstrong.

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11 thoughts on “Laura Woods’ anti-freedom stance on personhood turns off libertarian blogger

  1. If only there were a way to make a really tiny gun, then the embryo or zygote would have a fighting chance against contraception – maybe then, Armstrong could pull the lever for Woods with a clear conscious.  

  2. The same with Tony Sanchez who is the nutter running in Frank Underwood's district.  His yard signs pronounce, "Defend Liberty" but liberty extends no further than an AK-47.  Liberty does not include the freedom of reproductive choice for women, freedom to marriage for gay men and lesbians, or freedom of religious beliefs for non (fundamentalist) "christians." 

  3. You've all heard of RINOs? I refer to politicians like Woods and Sanchez as CINOs (Conservative in Name Only). 

    Noted also is Ari Armstrong's involvement in the Coalition for Secular Government. Another plus for him in my book (disclosure: I've followed Ari for several years, but lost track back in February when my computer crashed and I lost a bunch of bookmarked pages). I don't agree with all his views, but he says a lot of stuff that I consider to be real conservatism; not the fake stuff that comes from many Tea Partiers, gun crazies, and the anti-freedom religious jihadists.

    Regards,   C.H.B.

    1. Well his characterizing Hudak as running a campaign against peaceable gun owners is pretty silly.  Nothing she voted for prevents peaceable gun owners from enjoying their guns.We're peaceable gun owners.  We enjoy ours. At most it imposes less inconvenience than renewing your license plates and no court has ever declared all regulation or the specific regulation found in the legislation Hudak voted for to be unconstitutional. 

      I would have more respect for hard core gun rights proponents if they would be honest enough to admit that the disagreement isn't between freedom haters who hate the constitution and freedom loving patriots but between people who have different ideas about how much regulation is reasonable, taking as a given that a certain degree of regulation has always existed and been allowed to do so by our courts. That would be a discussion worth the time of intelligent people with different views.  Shouting matches based on hysterical hyperbole are not.

      Flourishes, BC

  4. Based upon that logic, I don't think there are too many "Republicans" that this Ari Armstrong can vote for.  Too bad he went off the deep end and became a Libertarian.  If he and more like him had stayed in the Republican Party in the 1990's we might have been able to stop these folks.  Ari has no one to blame but himself.

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