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When the President took office the federal government's books were balanced- and, I might add, they had been balanced by a Democrat. While 9/11 certainly had an incredible financial impact on our nation, the President borrowed huge amounts of money for tax cuts. Borrowing the money for prosecution of the Afghanistan War and for the new expenses in shoring up homeland security were ominous enough.

OK you voted for Reagan twice and don't like tax cuts but rather the balanced budget at all costs of Hoover?

My second concern is the encroachment of state's rights through advocacy of banned abortions and gay marriage. My first introduction to this site was through this question, and my family and I were villified as drug-abusing homosexuals given to beastiality, and that all of California would soon look like Ground Zero. To me, this is not a religious argument- it asks the secular question about infringing on the rights of the state and, by induction, the rights of the individual. My position, as stated by Barry Goldwater in 1960, and one that I have carried as my mantra since then, is that any power given up by the state to the federal government reduces my personal freedom.

You are right in that you are a libertarian. Feel free to keep voting for those liberteens.