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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ted Cruz isn’t a social “moderate” (see liberal). Boy the wishful thinking of chattering class (and airheadness) is really showing..!
There desperately needs to be a national survey asking a single question:
“How much should the federal government be reduced in size?”
1) 0%
2) 5%
3) 10%
4) 20%
5) More than 20%
I end with “more than 20%” because accomplishing *any* reduction is going to be a Herculean effort. So think of this in terms of “the first round of cuts.”
How much do *you* think?
I canceled my subscription way back in Clinton's first term.
Hey, I’ll take Cruz. Don’t care what anyone wants to call him.
If libertarian on Cruz turns people on. Sure, I’ll take it.
You Reagan zealots crack me up. “I read a book and know ALL about XYZ”. Please. Unless you were part of his ‘inner circle’ you don’t know jack about the man aside from his movies, speeches and deeds.
He was not God, a saint nor a choir boy. He was a President, end of story.
He was SUCH the embodiment of ‘Conservatism’ he signed amnesty and left office with a bigger gov’t than when he entered. He extended the Voting Rights Act and signed in the MLK holiday. He was an EX-Liberal who could or would not stem the Liberal tide during his time in office.