The American Spectator

magazine event (Bob Barr, Mike Gravel, and Wayne Allyn Root), were not only “personally opposed” to child pornography but said that it should be illegal as well, and looked kind of shocked that anyone would ask such a question. Two of those candidates, Barr and Root, then went on to win the party’s presidential and vice presidential nominations. A fourth candidate, Mary Ruwart, who came in second to Barr for the presidential nod of the LP, did take something like the “personally opposed, but” position. It’s very likely that Ruwart’s writings on kiddie porn — and, ahem, the amplification of those writings by certain media outlets — cost her the nomination. You’re welcome, Libertarians. /p> p> HAT TIP br> Re: Joseph Baum’s letter (under “Quick Word, Good Doctor”) in Reader Mail’s Crying Foul : /p> p>Touche’! br> — Andrew J. Macfadyen, M.D. br> Omaha, Nebraska /p>