Posted on 09/30/2013 9:24:47 AM PDT by shego
During his Ironman 21-hour speech, Sen. Ted Cruz read excerpts from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, name-dropped "libertarians" at least six times, and yielded to Sen. Rand Paul, who invoked Frederic Bastiat's "What is Seen and Unseen," a favorite among libertarians.
Ted Cruz, who retained remarkable composure over the long night, seems in all things deliberate. Political leaders seem to have become more comfortable talking about libertarians, even identifying themselves as such. Libertarians may have reached a tipping point within the Republican Party.
Last week, a FreedomWorks study on public opinion found that libertarian views within the Republican Party are at the highest point in a decade, today representing 41 percent of Republican voters....
We define libertarians as those who favor "smaller government" and think government should not promote "traditional values." Using this method, FreedomWorks data show that 41 percent of Republicans and Republican leaning independents are libertarian today.
Two separate data sources, Gallup and ANES, show the same trend: that libertarian views are at the highest point in a decade....
Of course, as I've have noted previously, not all these libertarians self-identify as such and many don't know the word. But even that seems to be changing, and it's not just Ted Cruz.
Sen. Rand Paul calls himself a "libertarian-leaning Republican." Glenn Beck now considers himself libertarian, saying "I'm a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel." Matt Drudge recently tweeted his frustration with Republicans on Syria, saying it's now "authoritarian vs. libertarian." According to FreedomWorks' poll, only 10 percent of Republicans "don't know" the word libertarian, compared to 27 percent nationally.
The data confirm that libertarian views may well have reached a tipping point in the Republican Party.
(Excerpt) Read more at cato.org ...
It's simply the biggest target and the longest running excuse for the government to infringe on our privacy and freedoms. Don't worry...if that mistake in governing is corrected we'll move on to opposing they next threat to freedom. Probably abolishing the department t of homeland security and taking away the department of education's SWAT teams.
every week you post this crap, WHY???
Is it because you’re a Ron Paul supporter who wants to infiltrate the GOP?
this poster posts this crap every week, he or she is obviously a troll.
just said the same.
he or she posts this crap every week and obviously has an agenda is a troll.
10% of republicans “don’t know the word libertarian”? That means there are 10% who don’t know what day it is and love everyone who has a “R” after their name. I know there are at least that many democrats who “don’t know the word liberal”.
The progressive, leftist social views of libertarians is undoubtedly growingly accepted among the young, we all know that.
Conservatives have been facing a two front war against the left’s/libertarian social liberalism for quite some time.
Their real gains this year have been in homosexualizing the military and the acceptance of equality for gay marriage at the federal level in employment and immigration, and of course, the military.
The fewer statists we make common cause with the better.
Yep.
Thinks we need to drop social issues, too.
True, though the "War on Terror" is catching up (and is showing the Keystone Kop incompetence of the government in even sharper relief -- they spy on everything and can't find people they were specifically warned about).
Obviously, when the ship of state is headed toward a fiscal iceberg, the rearrangement of deck chairs and polishing of band instruments need to be put aside for the duration.
LOL, a quote from the beginning of a 1975 interview for a small libertarian audience while he was campaigning.
Reagan then proceeded to explain how he wasn’t a libertarian because of he was a conservative and disagreed with them on social issues and national defense.
You are being dishonest when you post that, but you certainly don’t seem to care for honesty, even when it comes to Reagan.
Here we are dealing with homosexualizing the military and gay marriage, and you want to pretend that Reagan supported that libertarian agenda, which he didn’t, he was even against gambling.
ping
Reagan wanted to have federal Gambling Police? News to me....
this is good news very good news!
Thank you for making my point.
Federally endorsed perversion is a poor substitute for choom-on-demand. It’s all about the choom.
So they like conservative ideas on government and economics, but the left's social agenda, that isn't good news.
Aside from the obvious, it also makes conservative economics impossible, it is a contradiction.
Are exactly the same.
Libertarians did not create their party to be in contradiction with themselves and libertarian ideals and it isn't.
The reason libertarians tell that lie is because they want to keep their agenda vague, not defined.
running to Uncle Sam everytime we feel like something has been wronged isn't healthy for a society. In the end G-d will judge a nation's transgressions.
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