Posted on 02/08/2008 3:56:23 AM PST by LowCountryJoe
Washington, D.C. - Following a solid McCain victory in the Super Tuesday primaries, the Libertarian Party has sent Republican headquarters a funeral wreath marking the death of limited-government values within the Republican Party. The wreath was hand-delivered to the D.C. offices of the Republican National Committee. "We simply felt the need to express our heartfelt sympathy for the Republican Party as they undergo this tough time within their party," says Libertarian Party National Media Coordinator Andrew Davis, who delivered the wreath.
"Given that it has become readily apparent that Senator McCain will soon be the presidential nominee for the Republican Party," reads a card that accompanied the wreath addressed to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, "we, the staff of the Libertarian National Committee, send our condolences to you upon the death of small-government principles within the GOP."
The note continues:
Libertarians encourage competition within both the free-market and politics. Unfortunately, with the rise of John McCain and the big-spending practices of the Bush administration, the two-party system has emerged as representing only one philosophy - big-government liberalism.
With your loss, the Libertarian Party will continue to move forward to represent those American patriots who still believe in smaller government, lower taxes and more individual freedom.
"McCain's Super Tuesday win marks the death of limited government values within the Republican Party, which had struggled with its principles throughout the Bush administration," says Shane Cory, executive director of the Libertarian Party. "It is a day of mourning for the few remaining small-government Republicans."
For pictures of the wreath and its delivery to the RNC headquarters see below. For more information and interview requests, please call Andrew Davis at (202) 333-0008 during normal business hours, or at (202) 731-0002 during any other time.
The Libertarian Party is America's third largest political party, founded in 1971 as an alternative to the two main political parties. You can find more information on the Libertarian Party by visiting www.lp.org. The Libertarian Party proudly stands for smaller government, lower taxes and more freedom.
I'm not advocating going to the LP, but I am saying that perhaps we should start adopting some of their liberty principles. And if we absolutely must want our agendas addressed by legislation, better to take care of it a the most local level of government possible rather than instinctively fill the desire to adopt things nationally.
Rant over.
Funny, the only time anyone pays attention to the libertarians is when they do silly stunts like this, or when they run as Republicans.
If only they could get a single Libertarian elected to any office, they might be in the position to gloat.
Bernie Saunders did it for the Socialists in VT. Can't the Libertarians pull it off somewhere in the West?
It's funny because the Libertarians can't do any actually governing themselves, but prefer to whine and moan about the Republicans instead. Why don't they go bother the Democrats?
Appropriate.
Will also help to prepare the RNC for all the condolence wreaths they’re going to be swamped with in November.
awesome!!
thats just funny.
Priceless,,, simply priceless
I was almost interested for a second or two. Then I realized they don’t have a potus candidate, and they want us to pull out of the WOT.
“Funny, the only time anyone pays attention to the libertarians is when they do silly stunts like this, or when they run as Republicans.”
Not true, there are many influential Libertarians. Many more have core Libertarian values, but have other party affiliations.
My only problem with the Libertarian Party platform is its stance on Iraq and the WoT. The Republican party had looked like a reasonable alternative, but the expansion of government and free spending policies have been a joke. McCain, if nothing else, looks like more of the same in that department. In at least this one very important area this election shows the failings of the two party system.
More people need to wake up and realize that freedom really is not free, and that right now there’s no effective check on government growing ever more intrusive, onerous, and expensive. Meanwhile, American business is hamstrung and large numbers of companies operate offshore, hurting our economy and making us dependent on foreign countries for even critical military components. Not to mention the massive debt that’s piling up...
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Ben Franklin
“From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” - Thomas Jefferson
Headstone to follow the November election.
That wreath arrived about 8 years too late.
Good analysis. The GOP has lost a lot of its respect and value for individual liberty
Funny thing from the LP. Although the LP has good ideas...their support for open borders and illegal aliens is anathema to American liberty...I think the Constitution Party probably addresses better individual liberty without loss of soverignty
The libertarians, like so many other organizations, have been infiltrated by the Marxists.
The libertarian’s idiotic stance against going after the terrorists after 9-11 was straight out of the appeasement platform of the Marxist party.
One of the primary tenets of the libertarian party, or at least it was until the Chamberlains took over, was self defense. You get attacked, you go kick ass. Period. No debate needed, other than how hard to kick butt and how many butts.
Back in 2002 when so-called libertarians started running screeds from various Marxists, including that bozo America-hating linguist from Yale (can’t think of his name), I knew the libertarian party was cooked.
Good analysis. The GOP has lost a lot of its respect and value for individual liberty
Funny thing from the LP. Although the LP has good ideas...although their support for open borders and illegal aliens is anathema to American liberty...I think the Constitution Party probably addresses better individual liberty without loss of soverignty
I’m in agreement with the LP on many issues, and I also agree with their assessment that the Republicans and Democrats merely represent slightly different flavors of Big Government philosophy, but seriously, they should grow up.
Back in 2002 when so-called libertarians started running screeds from various Marxists, including that bozo America-hating linguist from Yale (can’t think of his name), I knew the libertarian party was cooked.
Holy cow, if it was Chomsky.....the LP really jumped the fence over to the Marxist side. Ouch. Double Ouch
There needs to be a viable third party to rise from the ashes that is now th GOP (perhaps the Constitution Party)...but it is NOT going to be the Libertatian Party.
Every party is going to have some of those, and I doubt they are even in the majority in the Libertarian Party, but the party is going to need a higher percentage of rational people before it will get taken seriously.
Maybe that will happen since the Republican Party keeps failing what used to be its base over and over again.
VERY FITTING!
They don't get elected because they don't pander to the constituency that wants hard-working Americans to underwrite the sloth and slough that has become a large majority of the electorate.
And that's the age-old problem. Let's face it, the GOP has fallen under the reality of needing to buy votes in order to survive. George Bush has been teaching them how. It's a short jump from buying votes to believing leftist-liberal policies are "good for the country," when the real translation of that is, "good for my incumbency."
Feh.
Embrace liberty? Hell, we're running away from liberty and freedom and towards full blown Socialism at a break-neck pace at every available opportunity.....and have been for some time now.....
I'm not sure when it happened, most likely it began in the late 1960's, but the average Joe in this country does not love liberty at all. The average Joe, and ALL DemocRats couldn't define liberty if they tried. That is and has been clearly evident in every election cycle since at least 1988. They vote for who is going to "give" them the most or the ones that claim to offer the most "security".
Personal responsibility, self reliance and the love of liberty and freedom are all but dead in the USA.
If the party had the support of true conservatives, patriots, Constitutionalists and those who remember the principles Reagan exuded, they'd get more than a few people elected.
Didn’t the Liberteens have a candidate running for president? Oh, what’s his name? It’s on the tip of my tongue...
If McCain does not pick a VP candidate who I can accept, I probably WILL vote Libertarian for the first time in my life. The reason the Libertarians have had such difficulty getting candidates elected is that the GOP stood in many respects for the same things they did. With McCain, however, I think that is no longer true.
Sending a wreath and a note of condolence about the death of small government principles in the Republican party is not "gloating."
Thank LBJ, another Texan, for the Great Society programs and the War on Poverty efforts. Can someone finally declare victory in that one?
How many senators hail from the Libertarian Party?
I detect schadenfreude by the LP, but it’s well deserved. The GOP is, in fact, a moderate wing of the DNC. We all know what happens to moderates.
I used to support the Constitution party. However, they want to pull out of Iraq as well. There is also a strong push in the CP to recruit Ron Paul.
I'm not going to get everything I want, but their position on Iraq is a deal breaker.
They are right on that, but they have a surrender monkey as their leader so they're no better off. Nice try though.
Scarborough on PMSNBC this morning said GOPers have told him they expect a ‘disaster of epic proportions’ this fall. I hate to say it, but the only thing that can save us is some kind of crisis between now and then. Maybe if we have war with Iran, that will turn the wishy washy voters back to national security matters. Or maybe President Bush could suspend the election. Maybe the military needs to step in, I can’t believe they would accept Hilary or Osama Obama as commainder in chief.
The problem is that with the vast majority of people, it's much easier to "sell them" on the idea of giving them other peoples' stuff, saying that the government is like their parents (remember pony-tail boy at that Bill Clinton campaign stop?) than it is to tell them, "I'm going to give you the opportunity to rise to your highest potential." Most people simply don't want to "give it their best shot" in life. They would much rather be secure than taking a chance that they might fail.
Mark
I think that you might be thinking of Noam Chomsky, from MIT. But I don't think that he's ever declared himself a libertarian, either big or small 'L.' Of course, I could be wrong here. One thing is for certain, he certainly is an "America Hater," but he's grown quite rich working as a contractor for the military and intelligence agencies that he hates so much.
Mark
“If only they could get a single Libertarian elected to any office, they might be in the position to gloat.”
I think the city government of Leadville, Colorado was or is mostly Libertarian.
And another problem is with LINOs (Libertarians in name only) like Bill Mahr. These are people who are actually big government leftists, who just happen to latch on to the anti-WOD stance of the LP.
I do wish that the LP would "get over" making the WOD their #1 issue. I'm against the WOD, simply because I hate what it's done to the Bill of Rights. But there are bigger fish to fry right now. And I have LOTS of trouble supporting the LP's policies on open borders and the WOT, which is what I consider to be the #1 issues today. I would say that I support about 80% of the LP's platform, and I consider myself something of a "small 'l' libertarian," but those 2 issues keep me voting 'R.' Or it did until now.
Mark
The Republicans have been in death spiral mode for decades.
It is about time someone noticed.
Just one thread from the near recent future-link below...
Best regards, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/790212/posts?page=91#91
WOW!!!!! /sarc
There is and will be no victory in the so-called "war on poverty" because winning is not the objective, so no victory is sought. The so-called "war on poverty" is a vote generating scheme designed to last eternally.
Boortz nails it when he says poverty is a mental disease. Rich folks, by and large, get and stay rich by repeating the behavior that makes them rich. Poor folks, by and large, get and stay poor by repeating the behavior that makes them poor. There is, and always will be, about 10% of any population that simply refuses to do for themselves. Thus, our welfare system has been extended from those who can't to those who won't. This was and is a key source of votes for the Dims and Johnson and his cronies knew that when they made up this phony "war on poverty" nonsense.
Forget victory in the "war on poverty". I'd settle for an exit strategy......with a set time table for an orderly retreat......
Prezactly.
So you'd consider Nixon a "surrender monkey" too?
They owe me a new monitor. Hehhe... They may just get another $25 out of me yet...
I'm not dead yet.....
The Libertarian Party has long recognized the importance of allowing free and open immigration, understanding that this leads to a growing and more prosperous America. We condemn the xenophobic immigrant bashing that would build a wall around the United States. At the same time, we recognize that the right to enter the United States does not include the right to economic entitlements such as welfare. The freedom to immigrate is a freedom of opportunity, not a guarantee of a handout.
End entitlements and handouts, the only ones coming here are the ones we WANT here. Repeal all the crap infringing our RKBA and "sudden jihad syndrome" and attacks like 9/11 become impossible.
Government isn't the solution to those issues. Government CAUSED those issues. The LP has it right on these.
Not a fan of the LP’s foreign policy or a few of their other kookier planks, but this is funny.
My position too. AND that inclues free daycare otherwise known as public school.
Because the Dems are a lost cause. Republicans, however, are supposed to know better!
This removes the "indoctrination center" effect and increases quality of education.
Like I tried to state in 44, but left out a crucial word, if you end all the freebies, the only people who would want to come here are the exact same types of folks who are a benefit to us. Like my Russian immigrant Father and his family. My Grandfather shoveled coal on the Soo Line in MLPS and my Grandmother sorted paper for recycling. My Dad went to school, learned the language, joined the Army, and became a Sheriffs deputy.
The American dream in a nut shell and done without one dime of welfare. If you are willing to work, and the government doesn't prevent you via regulation and taxation, you can achieve here. However, the government makes it harder to do with every Session of Congress.
This must change or this Country is through as a "free Republic". It may already be too late now that the Election is coming down to be between two "Bigger Government" Nationalists.
“With your loss, the Libertarian Party will continue to move forward to represent those American patriots who still believe in smaller government, lower taxes and more individual freedom.”
If the LP were anti-drug, pro-closed borders and strong on national security and pro-life, I’d vote for them.
How much stronger on National Security do you need to be when one of your party planks is the Second Amendment expressed in a way that the GOP ignores? An armed civilian population is one of the best deterrents to both crime and terror.
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