Posted on 10/17/2012 9:20:50 AM PDT by GraceG
The one that that stood out for me was the fact that even in the RNC primary we had at least 1 or 2 Libertarian questions a debate from the "peanut gallery". We never even got ONE question like:
"What do you think the role of the Federal Government should be?"
"What percentage of taxes on ANYONE is too much?"
"If the question in tax policy is fairness, and the same percentage of a tax being mathmatically fair, why isn't a FLAT TAX an option in your opinion?"
"We talk about the war on terror, what about the war on drugs and it's failure?"
"At what point if the government telling us what to eat going to far?"
Nothing, of cource "Candy Cruller" did nothing but pick questions that were left leaning...
Granted I am a small L libertarian conservative, but no good questions about the PHILOSOPHY of government, of course someone put it in good contaxt today that all the "undecided" voters at the debate were nothing more than mere liberals that were pissed off Obana didn't go far enough LEFT in his first term....
I don’t think we would have liked the answers from either candidate.
But where was the question to Obama on how he is different to Carter?
LMAO
Candy Crugger
A rigged debate is a much bigger scandal than the TWENTY-ONE game show scandal in the 1950s ever was.
There are no “liberarian qiuestions”. Whether one of your or any issue was addressed last night or not, it would fall into a conservative or liberal side anyway.
EXACTLY.
“Candy Cruller”
LMAO
Well, all i see are Kit-Kat Bars and Doughnuts, at least both are vegetarian...
[ I don’t think we would have liked the answers from either candidate. ]
Which is exactly the point!
A rigged debate is a much bigger scandal than the TWENTY-ONE game show scandal in the 1950s ever was.
YUP, the debate questions need to be put into a damned drum and spun around and picked randomly with only the dupicate questions tossed....
Anything else is biased.
A Town Hall “Lottery” debate would be far better...
Since only a tiny percentage of the people consider themselves “Libertarian” it is of no concern that there were no such questions. Why should there be? There were no questions from midgets either.
It also would have pointed out the "me too"-ism from both Romney and Obama.
It'd be nice to have a real contrast in these debates. You know, someone who gives more than just lip service to the Constitution and the principles of real freedom.
Randomly selecting questions would not have helped. In order for that to work, you have to randomly select the questioners, and then from a more varied pool than Long Island.
Or different from Bush, really. Obama's continued all of Bush's bad policies, and expanded on most of them.
I have seen no evidence that Libertarians understand the Constitution at all.
There is a huge difference in these candidates.
Simple, because the questions, format, and moderator were obviously chosen to favor the liberal candidate. Asking questions from liberty minded voters, like the kind who consider themselves libertarians, or conservatives, or even just a few Tea Party members, would have helped show how bad a choice President Obama would be for America.
Why would anyone ask a Rebublican and a democrat, a “libertarian” question?
“Since only a tiny percentage of the people consider themselves “Libertarian” it is of no concern that there were no such questions. Why should there be? There were no questions from midgets either.”
intellectual honesty perhaps?
May I suggest reading some books on the subject, books by Rothbard, Hayek or Thomas Sowell might be a good starting point.
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