Posted on 09/13/2013 8:06:03 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
Sen. Ted Cruz and his libertarian-leaning comrades in the Republican Party seem to be gaining support with the American people, according to a recent survey conducted by the polling company, inc.
The economic conservatism paired with a socially moderate outlook that characterizes the libertarian wing of the Republican Party may be signifying a sift in the party’s politics in the years to come.
“The perfect storm is being created between the NSA, the IRS, the implementation of Obamacare and now Syria,” said Republican pollster Kellyanna Conway who ran the poll, according to Politico.
“People are looking at the government more suspiciously. They’re looking with deeper scrutiny and reasonable suspicion.”
The top two issues that members of the survey reported as the “most important for elected officials in Washington to address right now” were the economy (35%), and healthcare/Obamacare (24%).
The push to repeal Obamacare has been the platform Cruz has used to raise his profile in the national spotlight, leading the way as one of the healthcare bill’s most outspoken opponents.
“President Obama’s strategy is very simple. He wants to get as many Americans as possible addicted to the subsidies, addicted to the sugar,” said Cruz in an interview with Rush Limbaugh. “He knows that in modern times, no major entitlement has ever been implemented and then unwound.”
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When you have the headline and the first sentence of the article in complete opposition to reality - it makes it real easy to dismiss this as horsehit and stop reading.
Ted Cruz - a libertarian???
Ha ha ha ha ha ha. (Whew!) Ha ha ha ha ha....
Between Cruz and my particular congressman, they are about the only ones I would support.
Time for the GOP to eat their own. They pose a risk to control of the party and control of the party must be maintained by the RINOs uber alles!
“When you have the headline and the first sentence of the article in complete opposition to reality”
This is his hometown newspaper.
It’s a well known fact that Cruz is a libertarian, as was Reagan. You’ll find the quotes with 1 minute of research.
The welfare state may not have been unwound (whatever that means), but true Republicans forced Clinton to reduced it and limited the benefits back in 1994. Plus, they required "work for welfare". Obama has unwound that effort.
Unfortunately, one of the worst drugs is Social Security.
I didn't get hooked on the dole, I've been paying for it for nearly four decades.
I estimate that I'd have about $800,000 now, and about twice that at normal retirement age. That's using actual long-term Treasury bond rates, and not some average rate of return for stocks or bonds.
I can't afford to walk away from that, especially since I'll be paying taxes on my IRA withdrawals to partially fund it.
Freudian slip?
Seriously, I would just as soon have liberals at the helm as libertarians. The ship would arrive at the same destination.
Insofar as we can make any inroads with Millennials, it will be with a Libertarian platform. They’ve been Pavlov-trained to equate Reagan Conservatism with the Bubonic Plague.
You are lying, Reagan was not a libertarian, and as far as I know, Cruz is a conservative, not a gay marriage, homosexualing the military, open borders, pro-abortion, etc, etc, libertarian.
You are FOS. I know you were on this thread the other day
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3065603/posts
when idiots were claiming Reagan was a lib. And - once again - we conservatives proved that claim was a LIE.
And now you want to believe Cruz is pro-dope, pro-porn, open borders, fag friendly and worse???
FOS. You know what that means.
Like most true conservatives they have libertarian ideas and leanings in the areas of smaller government, and less regulation and interference with business.
Here endeth the libertarian leanings..........thankfully..........
When you show us all the speeches and writings of Reagan telling us he was a libertarian, save us some time and skip that little quote from his interview with a libertarian audience when he was campaigning in 1975.
The quote where he establishes economic common ground and then proceeds to explain how he was a social conservative wanting laws on gambling and prostitution for instance and strong on national defense, and he said all that to the libertarians themselves.
Cruz Libertarian? I think the definition of “what is a Libertarian” eludes this study.
In any event, when they get to the polls (few in number) studies have shown that a Libertarian is just as likely to finally decide to vote for the Dim. Libertarianism is anarchy and as bad as the Democrats brand of Socialism, just in a different way.
Well I’ll tell you my FRiend, sooner or later it is going to happen.
Entitlements cannot continue without revenue. How much can we borrow from the future until the lenders say “no mas” (I’d say that in Chinese, but I don’t know the language...)?
How much longer until they’ve squeezed the incentive to even get out of bed and go to work from the last taxpayer?
Either the entitlements end the easy way or the very hard way, but something has got to give one way or the other.
Reagan a libertarian? With his pro-military, anti-homosexuality, anti-drug, muscular foreign-policy positions?
No... not libertarian by a long shot.
This is a lot like the journalists that claim Ron Paul and libertarians started the Tea Parties — ill-educated journalists.
We don’t need to have a libertarian versus conservative fight to figure out the sense of the article — more conservative/libertarian leaning Republicans are gaining ground in their own party which includes a lot a me-too Rino’s who are office seekers only and principled folks last.
We can’t seem to put out good educational threads about what the leftist progressives are for those that browse here but we can get a libertarian versus conservative fight going at the drop of a hat.
While a youngster, I flirted with the Libertarian party in the 70s when they begun, I am a plain old conservative. That does not mean that I can’t work with a non-ideological small “L” libertarian for small government and to get rid of the leftists. They are my brothers in that fight.
I think what they mean to say is “small government”. The press is stupid; they don’t understand what libertarians stand for.
Wanting smaller government, less regulation, a return to true market forces, no crony capitalism, and a foreign policy based on tested and agreed upon national interests without nation building is what Republicans should be for. We are not neocons. We are not free dopers. While we don’t think homosexuals should be rounded up and shot, we do not believe they should get special rights over any others, and that Americans have the RIGHT to defend themselves, the right to freely associate, and are extremely distressed with a culture that does not see that killing a baby in the womb should be as bad as after it is born.
This doesn’t make us Bible-thumpers, either. Many people believe all the above without even getting into the religious aspects of it.
We need to make the RINOs in Congress stand up for the principles above.
The Democrats are downright evil. Maybe they really intend to help people, but their programs end up enslaving vast numbers. The dole, for example, is dehumanizing. It destroys the human potential. It creates dependency.
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