Posted on 10/02/2015 1:19:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The libertarian moment in American politics—foretold just last year in the New York Times magazine—is like the horizon; always retreating as we advance upon it.
The political events of 2015 are a brutal reminder about how far this country is from embracing libertarianism and how alien those ideas are even to the purported shock troops of the freedom movement. While libertarianism’s opponents can take heart, its champions are setting their cause back by pretending that all is well.
The collapse of the Rand Paul campaign speaks volumes. In a 15-person field, Paul is the only candidate who looks even remotely libertarian (social tolerance, foreign policy restraint, and limited government). He started the campaign with decent name recognition, a seat in the United States Senate, lavish media attention, a serious will to win, and a battle-tested, national political operation inherited from his father, Ron.
If there were any significant support for Libertarian ideas in the GOP—any at all—Rand Paul would be near the top of an otherwise crowded, fragmented field that is fighting over every non-libertarian voter in the party.
Yet he’s polling at a mere 1 percent among Republican voters nationwide and has a higher unfavorability rating than anyone else in the GOP race....
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And, he’s now an also Rand.
Good one, I guess we can now “bring out the Paul bearers.”
The Libertarian Party HAS had an impact. It has enabled a number of progressive ‘RATS to be elected over constitutional conservative Republicans.
The collapse of Rand Paul and the libertarian moment that never was
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Be careful in discounting the libertarian movement. They are adept in nominating doofuses, splintering the GOP vote and aiding liberals and democrats.
Oh. And they roll a tight joint, too. FWIW.
Rand Paul looked good at a distance.
But the more he opened his mouth, the less he resembled his Dad, who was excellent.
Rand Paul called Trump juvenile names.
Rand Paul showed himself to be a supporter of McConnell, aka McSurrender, who has to be the worst Senate Leader in our lifetimes (unless one is a Dem, in which case McConnell is the best leader).
So what is left to like?
To me at least, Rand Paul showed himself to be just another wannabe GOPe RINO.
And lost my trust and confidence.
Way to go, Jerry! This is the shallowist, least well-thought-out piece of crap I've read in a long time. I think we ought to take this quote and place it in Webster's dictionary under non-sequitur.
HA!!!
the only thing driving that whole movement was pot.
Just shows that neither party is interested in either the Constitution or individual freedom. and that the socialist school system has made sure that voters aren’t either.
Losertarians have been goofing elections for awhile.
Cruz is fairly libertarian, probably more so than he lets on at this time, but I think he just settles now for being a Constitutionalist.
It didn’t help that he came out for FELON VOTING RIGHTS and virtually against Voter ID.
If we want that, we’ll just go with Hillary.
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