So. What does sticking to principles and keeping promises have to do with libertarian priorities?
Another case where the headline and the article do not match.
I think people don't understand that "traditional values" find their foundation in Scripture rather than the "anything goes values" of today which are based on the emotions of the human heart.
“compromise in a bipartisan way to get things done.”
Bipartisanship: When the stupid party and the evil party get together and do something that is both stupid and evil.
The article is poorly formulated and written. ‘Giving the journalist an F on this one. And the idea that Republicans are not driving the abortion issue is pure bogus. Look at our recent victories in Texas and North Dakota. That was the grassroots that pushed that. If anything, we should be driving the anti-infanticide movement into high gear. It’s a winning issue.
If this is meant to imply the GOP is now cozying up to issues like fag-marriage, dope, open-borders, and other such degeneracy... well, it can count me out.
When you try to run as Democrat-Lite, people just wind up voting for the real thing.
“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism” -Ronald Reagan
Embracing libertarian principles everywhere but Washington.
Goldwater was a libertarian Republican.
Reagan was a libertarian Republican.
libertarian populism, with religious liberty as a key component, could propel another 1980 election.
There is a “Libertarian” talk show host in Austin in the PM. He is pro gay, pro abortion, somewhat anti gun rights, nanny state closet liberal. I turn off or mute the radio when he comes on with an ad for a local business during the Mark, Ed and SGT Sam show. Ed is a closet liberal too.
Putting aside this bizarre article ... I will say the basic premise of adding more libertarians to the mix sounds good to me. Given where we are ... a healthy addition of “let me the hell alone” couldn’t hurt.
Cruz / Paul 2016
i admit I have become more libertarian on social issues (for pot legalization now etc.), but I still am fairly socially conservative and definitely economically so.
Which presumably means that 59 percent say it is. So try again.
Asked about abortion, about one-third said it is one of the top three issues they care about;
And if one out of every three people you meet on the street told you they wanted to burn your house to the ground, would you listen? Only in the Republican Party would they not. And they're about to lose their house.
Moral of the story: polls can be made to say whatever you want them to say. The core of the Republican Party remains evangelicals and evangelical Christians. When they leave, the Republican Party dies. Simple as that.
A truly surreal thread.
Assuming that the powers that be don’t get us all incinerated in the coming months, we should have plenty of time to discuss the respective merits of libertarian versus conservative utopias as we’re marched off to Camp Napolitano.
(/sarcasm and scorn)
I’m not sure very many actually read the article you posted.
What I took from the article is that more Republicans agree with the libertarian view of the role of government.
People want to be left alone. They don’t want to be spied on, they don’t want to have universal health insurance requirements dictated by the government, they don’t want a government “safety net” of free cell phones, never-ending unemployment, etc that is destroying our economy while running up the debt, they don’t want to be felt up by TSA agents.....and the list goes on and on and on......
On top of all that, they want the Constitution to be upheld...things like the second amendment, the fourth, etc.
Libertarian ideology and Republican ideology are not all that different on a lot of the issues that are front and center today.
No I am not. They lost me at pro-choice.