Posted on 09/18/2006 11:50:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
MESSAGE TO THE TERRORISTS: "Hang on a little longer! If you can last another 10 months, we will give the country over to you! We'll be outta there like we were outta Saigon, and then Katy bar the door!"
Although I would agree with Libertarians on a lot of domestic issues, I find their foreign policy is superbly naive. I probably would be more in line with the paleocons, but the Libertarians have pretty much jumped on board with the Left as far as the war and as far as a lot of foreign policy is concerned---although CATO INSTITUTE is quite sane (as compared with Libertarian Party USA)
What would the libertarian response have been to the 911 murder?
And this is one of the main reasons the official platform of the Libertarian party goes nowhere.
Yes, people like myself are unhappy with Republicans. They'd consider an alternative.
But I am NOT a Liberal on the war. And I do NOT support Murtha foreign policy.
Second, give me credit for well earned cynicism. All political parties and their candidates care about is getting elected to obtain power. With a few exceptions...
That being the case, a Libertarian majority party would be as much of a disappointment as any majority political party proves to be.
Well, I haven't heard anything about libertarians in general calling for us to leave Afghanistan.
Attack Afghanistan.
Libertarians are WORSE than liberals...They actually believe they are "principled" when they vote for third party nutcases, and thus hand some offices to democrats.
He's right about one thing.. I do wish some LIbertarian was elected somewhere that would shake up the political spectrum. As much as I despise the democrats there not much to be pitching a tent about right now on the Republican side, and I have a mostly libertarian philosophy anyway.. not totally.
I would not, however, waste my vote on alibertarian if it just ended up going to help elect a democrat.
And that is the libertarian's real problem... most people who share their philosophy are too busy trying their damdest to prevent democrats getting elected to bother voting libertarian. I would if I could.
Just out curiousity, what would you call a Neo-Wilsonian nation building effort to convert the rabid Islamist hordes to liberal democracy?
Another example of why the Libertarians will never be anything but a fringe 1% of the vote.
Just more political petulance from the 100%er club. Just learn this chant and repeat it endlessly and you can be a Losetarian too. "Whaa you can ONLY do 100% of ONLY what I want. Whaaa!"
IDIOTIC (wilsonian nation building, not you)------I know I know. Thought out libertarian policy and paleocon as well states what you just said--but I think the Libertarian Party USA really didn't explain itself very well and just came off as anti war as any leftist. The difference is in the rationale which I think is very important.
Then the Republicans need to get more libertarian
I thought libertarians did not believe in supporting a military?? Did the belief morph into something else?
And the Libertarians need to get a brain
Libertarians don't want to get elected and actually be held accountable. They like to live in an abstract world where they can constantly complain about those who actually take the responsibility of governing.
"They actually believe they are "principled" when they vote for third party nutcases, and thus hand some offices to democrats"
What makes you think they owe republicans a vote in the first place?
You OWE your country to NOT allow democrats to control all branches of government so that they can STACK courts, and draw districts which will assure them absolute powers, making it impossible for your candidates, or republicans, to win in numbers to gain majorities...NEVER forget, that without majorities, all your principled ideas will have NO effect in law...You guys don't think past your noses, which are pointed upward as you claim "principled" superiority.
Sounds like a list of reason why we have TOO much government. Government that we cannot trust the GOP or the DNC with.
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