Libertarian Party D.C. Mayoral Candidate Bruce Majors: Stuck in the Middle

Bruce Majors is running for mayor of Washington D.C. with the
Libertarian Party. Majors is gay, and has recently been slammed by
both the Gay and
Lesbian Activist Alliance for being insufficiently pro-state to
count as pro-gay (“His and his party’s ideological distrust of
government is at odds with policies and reforms favored by GLAA”),
and by
the Republican Security Council for being insufficiently
pro-war to be a good mayor of the District of Columbia (“He is
well to the left of Obama and Pelosi on defense, foreign policy and
war on terror issues.”)

Majors cheeky response: “I actually pledge, if elected Mayor
of D.C., NOT to remove any of the D.C. government military bases
from Japan or Germany.”

A telling survey of how Libertarians are seen by far-flung
elements of the American political spectrum with whom you might
imagine they have much in common—a desire to see gays treated as
fully civically equal, say, or a desire to shrink government
spending and overreach.

Alas, Libertarians’ full-blooded dedication to liberty and
choice sticks in the craw of nearly everyone, for some reason or
another, even when the alleged reason, as with the Republcian
Security Council, could not possibly have anything to do with the
office the Libertarian is seeking. 

Previous blogging from me in November on Bruce Majors’ attempts
to
get the D.C. Libertarian Party moving on up.