Posted on 02/01/2008 8:00:29 PM PST by PHLSyndicate
I just got a phone call from a relative in West Virginia, a long time, hardcore libertarian who relayed to me the wildest story. He's totally a straight shooting guy and its not like he lays crazy rumors on me all the time, so whatever he said he heard he heard. And apparently there's a rumor going around that Huckabee is set to drop out of the presidential race and give a go towards the nomination with the Libertarian Party. Along with him, his staff, and his money would apparently come his constituency. And it would be all because of his call to abolish the IRS that would be the bait.
Man, that presents a great big WTF!!
On one hand, its totally whacked, because the Libertarian Party I know (of the mid-1990s) is so not going to get into bed with a southern baptist minister. On the other hand, things have really changed after 911 and, from what I've been told, "a bunch of Texas Republicans" have taken over the Libertarian Party. Much of the original, purist platform has been watered down (including the non-initiation of violence pledge membership card) and replaced with a Republican Lite Agenda (as told to me by an ex-candidate for PA governor). So maybe things are different enough, since I've been heavily involved, to make this thing a reality.
I mean, we've got Democrats and Republicans. The Republicans, in many ways at one point, represented the rhetoric of small, decentralized government. Bush has given away the store to the Chinese (and where's bin Laden?), expaned government like he was doing an LBJ impression, tapped our phones, set up a network of gulags, and instituted massive new entitlements to further enslave my progeny. I guess the deaths of millions of service men in the fight of international communism was for nothing since everything we fought against, and defeated, still seems to keep coming at us at home. And now our military is exhausted, stretched thin and unable to defend our borders. We go hat in hand to the communist chinese to obtain loans to run this collapsing government and cartel dominated fiat banking system. And the Republican Party has morphed into... the Democratic Party. We've got a multilateralist internationalist war-mongering welfare state party vs. a unilaterialist internationalist war-mongering welfare state. Isn't democracy wonderful?
I'll post more if I find out more.
Hillary gets her “Ross Perot” ?
Oh boy.
No way.
I’m more of a Libertarian than Huck, and I’m no Libertarian.
This is idiotic.
Ain’t gonna happen. His pimp McCain won’t allow it.
They shouldn't worry because it seems to me that Huckabee left the ministry a long time ago. It's not much more than a personal bumper sticker now.
The Huckster must first figure out which end of his body houses his mouth.
Bravo Sierra.
My phone has been TAPPED!!!!!!!??????
he is not a libertarian
lol
I’m sorry, I’m just laughing my ass off here. Huckabee is about as libertarian as Nancy Pelosi is.
Huckabee is a total misfit when it comes to Libertarians, the whole thing would be a joke.....
The Personal Ego Party would be more appropriate.
Huckabee’s no libertarian. He’s a liberal.
And about as conservative, too!
Ron Paul I’d believe.
He’s been taking “populist” lessons from Ron Paul.
How many states will prohibit him from being on the ballot due to the fact that he already ran in a primary and lost? Texas has a sore loser law, so unless he removes himself from the Republican primary in Texas on March 4, he will not be allowed to be on the ballot in the general election for any other party or as an independent.
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