Every now and then it’s worth reading the Letters to the Editor in the Star…for their stupidity. Today’s candidate for the Stupid Hat: Kerry Karner of Indianapolis. Come on down, sir, or ma’am, or whatever sex your androgynous name doesn’t help much with identifying!
Former Libertarian turns ‘carpetbagger’
I was surprised to learn of Andy Horning’s move to the Republican Party. It seems to me he is doing nothing but taking advantage of a larger audience for his own gain.
Well, you know, the Libertarian Party was doing so well in Indiana politics. As in “shouting from a deep well”. So just about any move the man could make would be a good move for him. I suspect the letter writer of sour grapes because she/he/it didn’t think of it first.
In past campaigns, he has been critical of both the Democratic and Republican parties; how then does he suppose to align himself with one of them?
He supposed that he’d do it about like he did; he became a Republican. Probably marched right down to his voter registration office and signed a little card. Easy. “Piece of pie. Easy as cake.”
The former Libertarian has become a political “carpetbagger,” and I believe his motives are suspect.
I’d say it sounds more like he’s leaving the sinking hulk before it goes completely under, but I’m not a Libertarian. I’m a Hayekian liberal democrat (we’re sometimes erroneously called conservatives, these days). Certainly his motives are not suspect at all — he appears to know the stink of rotting hemp when he smells it.
Whether or not the Republicans in this state will ever trust him is another story. To them, I’m sure his motives are indeed suspect. But they shouldn’t be suspect to the Libertarians, unless the Libertarians are so stoned they simply can’t see reason.