[beezdotcom]

The party is irrelevant. Always has been. The point is, when you push your bad apples off onto another group, you expose yourself to the same nonsense.

But I couldn't disagree more. A party is as relative as its platform. I'm not even sure I know exactly what you meant there, so I should probably wait for clarification before ranting.

One man's bad apple is another man's pie filling. You're accusing Republicans of trying to push a "bad apple" out...what makes him a bad apple to Republicans? (Well, aside from the child porn charges that were later dropped - but we've barely been talking about those.)

Would he be considered a bad apple to Libertarians? To libertarians?

[Protagoras]

Every party has it's rotten apples.
Parties exist to elect people.
Philosophies describe ideas.
If you disagree with someone's ideas, debate the ideas.
If you would like to ask a question about a philosophy, fire away. But try to avoid personal attacks, it didn't work too well for the other poster. I assume you are an honest poster so you can take that as a general comment not aimed at you specifically.