Rod Hanscomb the @LibertarianCT candidate for governor honors conservatives versus the dishonor of affirming an amoral President

Among states Connecticut ranks among the most reckless for its level of unfunded pension liabilities. That GE moved its headquarters to what was formerly called Taxachussetts is an indication that it is more than taxes that ails Connecticut, rather miserable prospects for its economy because of cowardly and irresponsible Governors and legislature on both Democrat and Republican sides of the aisle. Connecticut will kick its economy down even further by electing a candidate from either of the major parties.

Democrats have nominated Ned Lamont who from his television ads appears not to care that Connecticut’s costly structure to educate, provide healthcare and maintain transport infrastructure needs reformulating. He is as beholden to municipal and teachers unions as the current Governor, Dannel Malloy and should he get his way would add to these unions membership and benefits and further aggravate Connecticut’s precarious position with unfunded pensions.

Republican Bob Stefanowski says he would cut programs, spending and taxes but is aligned with an amoral President who is destroying our democracy and the fiscally reckless national party that supports him, so it’s doubtful he can garner the political goodwill necessary to accomplish the necessary restructuring and bloodletting.

There are two other candidates currently petitioned validated as gubernatorial candidates: Oz Griebel an independent and Libertarian Party candidate Rod Hanscomb, with the same cut cut cut proposals as Stefanowski. But Libertarians are a full fledged party in the making with the fiscally conservative small government ideology the Republicans use to have before they lost their moral compass. Unlike the other minor parties that are solely dependent on a personality without coherent ideology, Libertarians have a core belief in Federalism, a system devised by our forefathers when writing the Constitution whereby the States share power with a carefully constrained central government. And its through Federalism that Connecticut could start disentangling itself from central government edicts that control our health and education and pare down expenses while improving services. Rod Hanscomb, the Libertarian Party’s first candidate for Governor of Connecticut can argue for a smaller less burdensome government unencumbered by crony deals and scandal of the of two major parties.  

Will he win? No, but his candidacy helps establish the Libertarian Party, a party worthy of being the loyal opposition to Democrats.  A party which nominated 2016’s most credible national candidates, Gary Johnson former Republican Governor of New Mexico and William Weld former Governor of Massachusetts as its team and unlike Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, people who had governed! William Weld, as governor redirected Massachusetts toward the vibrant economy that GE now wants to be a part of, is vying for the Libertarian Party’s 2020 top spot. A ticket which would attract honorable Republicans the likes of Mitt Romney, who followed Weld as Governor of Massachusetts, to peel away from their amoral party and begin the replacement of the lost GOP much like Lincoln replaced the Whig party. A vote for Rod Hanscomb will not be a wasted one for conservatives. Its one which they can build on because the legacy of Trump is dishonor and by affirming him and those that follow him dishonors conservatism.   

Sanctions are like a vaccine which when overly or misapplied lose their effectiveness

Sanctions are like a vaccine which when overly or misapplied lose their effectiveness. Trump's unilateral decision to discard the Iran Nuclear deal and reimpose the sanctions regime that Europe, Russia and China had agreed to bring Iran to the table to make the deal in the first place and with the full expectation they would be imposed again only with their agreement.  Now we have Russia in disagreement with sanctions altogether and Europe and China partially so. Europe’s disagreement will test U.S. based financial sanctions because they have the wherewithal and currency to counter them given a little time to tinker and develop workarounds just like a good microbe would. China can ignore the sanctions and buy oil at a discount from those rejecting it by blindly following U.S. demands to cease business dealings in Iran. And most dangerously for American power all three spheres of influence are aligned against the U.S.