Ultimately, the integrity of the party relies upon the vigilance and self-policing of the members and officers of the party. No question, integrity puts you at a distinct disadvantage to the Republicans and Democrats who are willing to trample integrity for the benefit of expediency. However, as Jesse Ventura demonstrated, we only need a fraction of the money that the Republican and Democratic candidates need, because they have a lot to defend and nothing to offer. The events in Littleton, Colo., are horrifying and must be unsettling to every school child and parent in America. The situation in Colorado has more to do with parenting than any other subject.
None is the answer.
There are municipal and county elected officials, including David Bieler, county commissioner of Stafford County in Virginia. The difficulty with discussing Kosovo is that we cannot measure our actions against a foreign policy because we have no defined foreign policy. The end of the Cold War has passed without a debate on what the world should look like 30 years from now, and what role the United States should play in that world, which would then define our foreign policy. We are not in Kosovo because of a national security risk no one is attacking our borders. We do not have a vital economic interest, as perhaps was the case in the Gulf War.