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(From Andrew Horning’s Facebook page last night)

Well over twice as many Hoosiers voted for me today than ever before. In fact, after years and years of running, if I were to plot this on a graph, it’d look like my vote total just shot up like the national debt. It’s hard to be real crabby about that; though I will try.

After all, We The People capitulated once again to the status quo.

But…

I’d be the worst sort of ingrate and short-sighted and selfish lout if I didn’t see that the leap in the number of out-of-the-box voters isn’t something I should be both grateful and hopeful about.
Thank you, my liberty-loving friends, new and old.

Thank you very, very much.

U.S. Senate debate with Republican Richard Mourdock, Democrat Joe Donnelly and Libertarian Andrew Horning from New Albany, IN.

U.S. Senate debate with Republican Richard Mourdock, Democrat Joe Donnelly and Libertarian Andrew Horning live from the WFYI Public Media studio.

(Released via Facebook. The views expressed are those of Andy Horning, and do not reflect the views of all Libertarians.)

I should probably just shut up about Mourdock’s Moment and let votes come my way without standing in the way. I have nothing to gain and at least a little to lose by speaking my mind.

But I’d be a lousy man and I wouldn’t sleep tonight if I were to withhold my thoughts on this. So, I must defend Mr. Mourdock, at least in this one little way. You probably don’t know how hard it is to stand up before cameras in this tense situation and try to say what you mean, and not say anything stupid. To do this with a clock ticking, and only a minute to be specific, clear and intelligible, is apparently impossible.
All of us slipped now and then.

God Knows that I certainly said things I wish I could retract, and didn’t say much of what I’d meant to. In a minute, I could only formulate a thought and start to articulate it before the timekeeper’s red STOP sign came up.

I want people to vote for me, of course. But I sure don’t want anybody to vote for me based upon Mourdock’s supposed gaffe for at least a couple of reasons:

1. That sort of hair-trigger reactive politics is a fair-sized chunk of flaw in human behavior that makes politics so inevitable, ugly and dangerous.
2. I understand what he meant, and…well…

I personally know women who’d been raped, and had abortions. While I don’t personally know any women who’d been raped and bore the child, I’ve certainly heard plenty of stories of such women. And the only regrets I’ve heard are from the former group. I know many women who didn’t have abortions were blessed beyond their hopes by their beautiful child – a child who was, after all, innocent of the brutality of her or his conception.

Everybody who knows me knows that my core philosophy of anti-aggression flows into a pro-life stance as well. While I insist upon constitutionality in my politics, and understand that most of the abortion debate should properly be argued at the state level, my personal feelings are far more like… Mr. Mourdock’s.

While I would not unconstitutionally craft federal policy in this matter, I do agree with Mr. Mourdock that, if you have any notion of a deity at all, then God’s Mercy could be seen in the birth of a child. No matter what else may have happened up to that point.

I’m sorry if that offends people who might have come my way by way of Mourdock’s words. But I don’t want anybody to vote for me under false premises or hasty judgments.

I’ve got to stand on my principles; which means I’ve got to defend my principles all the time. No matter how those chips may fall.

Please share with your friends and family.

PRESS CONFERENCE: 10am October 1 2012 at the Convention Center Plaza, Indianapolis, IN

Contact:Andrew Horning
(812) 585 0504cell
andy@horningforsenate.com

Andrew Horning, Candidate for Indiana US Senate”

“I will be at the Convention Center Plaza, 50 South Capital Avenue at 10:00 am and will take questions from the press and public after a short statement.”

Writing for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Gary North suggested the following two-point bill to restore financial health to the United States of America:

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and all subsequent amendments to that act are hereby revoked.

The gold that belongs to the United States government, and which is kept on deposit with the Federal Reserve System, is hereby transferred to account of the United States Treasury.

I agree, and would submit such a bill should voters choose to make that possible.

In the meantime, we mean to assemble at the Convention Center where Ben Bernanke will be speaking in the afternoon. We have more than two points to make about what the Federal Reserve Bank is, and what it has done to us.