Libertarians, Please GO AWAY

Vanity ^ | 11-08-06 | Me

[Mad Dawgg]

"Bush is spending more then Clinton ever did and we're supposed to be grateful."

OK that does it, if I hear one more FR poster who starts in on Presidents spending I am gonna post pelosi picks 24/7. As per the Constitution PRESIDENTS DON"T SPEND!!!!

They just sign bills or Veto them!

Congress Spends!

[steve-b]

I call them liberal-tarians.

Other FReepers call you "jackass".

[Arkinsaw]

What about me, a conservatarian, Am I no longer welcome???

I guess we gotta vote for somebody else next time since our votes aren't welcome.

[meandog]

I note your tagline compares President Bush unfavorably to President Reagan, whom I also admired and supported. Please note that President Reagan lost nine Senate seats in 1986 and the Senate majority to the Democrats; he never had a majority in the House. That wasn't all RR's fault, but as I recall he didn't campaign much at all in 1986; not nearly as much as GWB this year, and RR wasn't fighting a hot war at the time. My purpose is not to demean RR at all, but to suggest that we ought to appreciate what leadership we have now a lot more than some do.

IMHO, it proves Reagan could have governed effectively with opposition because he was a leader and could go directly to the people. Bush hasn't ever figured that out. Reagan also kicked puny dictators aside like so much confetti--just ask Qadaffi, Ortega, or dig up the old Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini. Further more, Reagan would have figured out someway to have Sadaam fighting the Taliban, while that little dog-eating Kim Jung Il and the Iranian jew-hating pig were destroying each other's nuke plants while he was selling all of them weapons and using the money from the sales to oust Castro and Chavez!

[Perdogg]

says who???

[Constitution Day]

How childish.

[FreeInWV]

If you are looking for someone to blame for all of this, I wouldn't look to the libertarians. If you were to add their votes into the GOP totals, it still would have made no difference.

Personally, I think they deserve a hearty "thank you" for not running aggressive campaigns this year. It would have been a good strategy for them this election. Had they, it would have been a whole lot uglier.

[RockinRight]

I am the same. I still feel welcome.

[elkfersupper]

Will you libertarians please go somewhere like Lucianne.com, where you can laugh and smile about how you put the Republicans out of power, and leave Free Republic to the conservatives.

Uh, no.

It's going to be up to the libertarians to save the so-called conservatives from themselves and save this nation in the process.

[The_Victor]

If Republicans want the votes of Libertarians, then Republicans need to give the Libertarians something to vote FOR.

[NRA1995]

One of the big things that lost this election for the Republicans was the "doing the jobs America won't do" mentality from President Bush on down....we were flat out IGNORED on doing something about illegal aliens and it isn't about to get better any time soon.!

[Seven Minute Maniac]

I have many libertarian ideals, but I plugged my nose and did. I voted straight R. But many Republicans are straying from the "liberaltarian" ideals that brought them into power in the first place. THe libertarian party keeps the republicans in check.

[Barney Gumble]

Blame the Libertarians?

Please name one lost race where the Republican vote + Libertarian vote > Democrat vote.

If you focus on blaming the Libertarians, you delude yourself as to the real reasons. why the Republicans lost. (See here for reasons: http://purveyors-of-truth.blogspot.com/)

[ssaftler]

Boo FUKKING Hoo! The Republicrats in Congress and the Senate did this to themselves, pure and simple.

If you have to resort to whining, scapegoating and the like, might I suggest www.democraticunderground.com? They LOVE to turn on the Waaambulance whenever the slightest thing doesn't go their way.

Let's grow up, dust ourselves off, and MOVE AMERICA FORWARD!

[tacticalogic]

Over a hundred replies to the thread, most of them to you and you haven't responded to a single one of them.

Anybody here not know how to recognize a bored troll looking to stir up a flame war?

[Ace of Spades]

Fair enough, so your challenge is to name one, just ONE spending bill Bush has vetoed.

And the clock starts... now.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Here's an article in today's Economist with some relevance:

Libertarians emerge as a force

"GLUM Republicans might turn their attention to the Libertarian Party to vent their anger. Libertarians are a generally Republican-leaning constituency, but over the last few years, their discontent has grown plain. It isn't just the war, which some libertarians supported, but the corruption and insider dealing, and particularly the massive expansion of spending. Mr Bush's much-vaunted prescription drug benefit for seniors, they fume, has opened up another gaping hole in America's fiscal situation, while the only issue that really seemed to energise congress was passing special laws to keep a brain-damaged woman on life support."

[DesScorp]

"conversative democrat...conversative libertarian"

There's no such thing as those mythical beasts.

[Wombat101]

steve, we forgot a very simple priciple with regards to the American electorate (the vast majority of whom simply go through life oblivious --- a testament to western civilization -- people can now survive and prosper without having to engage their intellect sometimes!); truth does not often matter, but perception ALWAYS does. Couple a negative truth with a negative perception and you're toast.

The perception was that Republicans were certainly not up to the task of managing a war, protecting the borders, handling a disaster and certainly not worthy of guarding the treasury.

What was that old comic strip saying? "We have met the enemy, and they is us".

[Wormwood]

And the clock starts... now.

LOL! It's gonna be a looooooong wait.