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The Libertarian Democrat: This Year's Jackalope
Reason ^ | June 16, 2006 | David Weigel

Posted on 06/20/2006 1:19:37 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 06/20/2006 1:19:41 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Oh,,please raise my taxes Mr. libertarian demoncat.!!


2 posted on 06/20/2006 1:22:02 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Somebody important make The Call.....pitchforks and lanterns.!)
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To: neverdem
Yeah do nothing EVER as an agenda is really going to win elections. More lunatic loser fringed nonsense.
3 posted on 06/20/2006 1:24:32 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (The Democrat Party! For people who prefer slogans over solutions!)
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To: neverdem

Any real libertarian would recoil in horror at the candidate's answer. Terri Schiavo was an example of a libertarian's worst nightmare, a citizen being deprived of the most basic liberty - the right to life - under the full glare of national attention, and nobody acted to stop it.


4 posted on 06/20/2006 1:28:03 PM PDT by thoughtomator (A thread without a comment on immigration is not complete)
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To: neverdem

a democrat by any other name is still.. a democrat!


5 posted on 06/20/2006 1:31:04 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: neverdem

This is only the final stage of the left-wing infiltration into the Libertarian party that's been going on for years.


6 posted on 06/20/2006 1:37:47 PM PDT by aynrandfreak (The Left hates America)
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To: neverdem
I remember reading somewhere that Noam Chomsky considers himself a "libertarian" ...

Sorry fellas ... putting libertarian lipstick on a socialist pig isn't going to change the fact that it's still a socialist pig.

7 posted on 06/20/2006 1:38:57 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: neverdem

Libertarians---The loser party.

Actually I have affinity for Libertarian thought, but it's not like they will ever win an election for dog catcher..


8 posted on 06/20/2006 1:41:49 PM PDT by Pondman88
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To: aynrandfreak
This is only the final stage of the left-wing infiltration into the Libertarian party that's been going on for years.

The LP has been going downhill since 9/11, when the anti-war crowd became the loudest voices in the party. In 2004, they even ran a poll in their monthly paper as to whether talk show host Neil Boortz, who had previously been asked to speak at the LP national convention, should be 'disinvited' because of his pro-war stance!

I used to think that the LP had the potential to become a force to be reckoned with -- unfortunately that's no longer the case.

9 posted on 06/20/2006 1:45:53 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: Cinnamon

A Democrat is either a moron or a traitor. Perhaps both sometimes.


10 posted on 06/20/2006 1:48:34 PM PDT by pleikumud
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To: pleikumud

Excellent. This is my new tagline.


11 posted on 06/20/2006 1:49:57 PM PDT by LongsforReagan (A Democrat is either a moron or a traitor. Perhaps both sometimes.)
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To: bassmaner
Noam could consider himself a potato. It doesn't make it true.

Anyone acting in accordance with the Non-initation of force, fraud, theft principle is a libertarian by definition. Democrats CANNOT, nor will they ever, meet this standard. That Republicans can't either isn't much of an issue.

Neither party has the respect for individual Rights that it should. Then again, the current LP is chock full of anti-war lunatics that couldn't find their own arses with a map and a flashlight.

12 posted on 06/20/2006 1:54:57 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.- Aeschylus)
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To: neverdem

Libertarians who think Republicans were wrong on the Iraq War and who accuse the government of marching into their bedrooms are S.O.L.

Libertarians have no home in the Democrat Party. If they don't want to vote for Republicans, they should become survivalists and live in the woods in a National Park somewhere.


13 posted on 06/20/2006 1:55:12 PM PDT by TSchmereL ("Rust but terrify.")
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To: bassmaner

Maybe there could be a right-leaning third party that would acknowledge that the left is the main threat, and that if it looked like the Dem was leading in three way polls, the new party would agree to tell their people to vote Republican at the last minute.


14 posted on 06/20/2006 1:57:35 PM PDT by aynrandfreak (The Left hates America)
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To: neverdem

Here we go again with the Libertarian bashing, never mind that they and liberals are opposite sides of the coin.


15 posted on 06/20/2006 2:00:09 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: neverdem

"It might be in libertarians' best interest to ally with Democrats for this election."

What nonsense!

It might be in libertarians' best interest to plant I.E.D. in their own driveways, but I doubt it.

It might be in libertarians' best interest to chop their noses off if they don't like their own faces.

Was it in the "Libertarians' best interest" to ally themselves with Saddam Hussein?

Who is this guy?


16 posted on 06/20/2006 2:07:38 PM PDT by TSchmereL ("Rust but terrify.")
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To: neverdem
Pictures required for threads talking about Ann Coulter, FR female mods and jackalopes:


17 posted on 06/20/2006 2:10:22 PM PDT by CedarDave (When a soldier dies, a protester gloats, a family cries, an Iraqi votes)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Libertarians and 'conservatives' (and Neo Cons) have one important thing in common- a belief in personal accountability; that is why they are so often 'fellow travelers' even though on issues such as the enforcement of state defined morality and the efficacy of foreign intervention they are so at odds.


18 posted on 06/20/2006 2:11:16 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA.)
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To: RedStateRocker

This article is from Reason Magazine.

The editor, Nick Gillespie, argues that the spread of pornography is a victory for free expression and that heroin should not only be legalized, but using it occasionally is just fine.

In my opinion, even if you agree that pornography is a victory for free expression and that heroin should be legalized, you make an ass out of yourself by making a point of supporting it.

I generally like Libertarians, but they are extremely childish.

The only thing Libertarians and Democrats have in common is childishness.


19 posted on 06/20/2006 2:18:36 PM PDT by TSchmereL ("Rust but terrify.")
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To: neverdem
A Libertarian-Democrat: A pot-smoking porn-addict who believes that sex addiction therapy should be covered under Medicare.

Doesn't sound like that much of a stretch to me...
20 posted on 06/20/2006 2:21:58 PM PDT by Antoninus (I don't vote for liberals -- regardless of party.)
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