I think I heard the globalists say to both parties, as the Pharasees said to Judas, "See thou to that." 
Posted on 11/08/2006 8:08:12 AM PST by Matchett-PI
Speak for yourself.
You are right, Republicans should stop being "stiff-necked stuped". ;-)
There is that idiot lie again.
RKBA. Secure borders. Smaller, more Constitutional government. Private property Rights. Less socialist feel good vote buying schemes. Strong military.
I'm hardly a "one issue" anything and I'm not out of the ordinary either.
Most libertarians I know are Christian
They're ardent enemies of any moral codes
Yea you cant trust them around congressional pages, attractive women at a young republican convention oh wait those were entrenched Republicans.
They despise the church.
Not in my experience
Boy do you have it wrong! Our founding fathers were conservative. Modern day Republicans and Democrats are NOT conservative. Our founding fathers stood for limited government. The Libertarians are the only Party left that actually believes in limited government.
Tactically stupid to give a second thought to the group that -- according to you -- determined yesterday's election results???
How does that make any sense at all?
By what measure do you make this assertion?
Amen, brother. (Unfortunately.) If the Founders read some of the assertions Libertarians make in their name, they would leave the room as if to escape a bad smell.
It's too bad not to have balance—to realize that the people's freedom includes public spaces free from certain kinds of vice for which many people (including some Libertarians) seem to have a weakness.
I learned a lot from Libertarians during the Reagan years and met many great minds among them. They did excellent work on economics, which needed to be justified from the ground up after decades of Great Society hogwash. I heard Walter Williams speak at their New York State convention. He seems to be way more conservative than Libertarian now.
We all need to recognize that there is a certain minimum social order needed in order to make economic freedom possible. Liberals and Libertarians share something important: a lack of appreciation of some of the sources of the comfort and opportunity we all enjoy in the West. Two sources I have in mind include our legal prejudices in favor of normal family life and a military that can kick butt. There's no economic freedom when the Huns (or the Mooselimbs, or ACORN) break down your infrastructure and replace it with disorder.
In full color, too! Thanks! bttt
While I don't doubt that is what the Libertarian Party says, most libertarians aren't in the party. They are independents or Republican, trying to change the party from within. Most support controlling the border as that is a legitimate power of the state. Not every libertarin subscribes to the LP platform. FWIW. ;-)
Small 'l' Goldwater/Reagan type libertarians have no need to be quiet, as the republican party leadership is responsible for failing to include their constitutional philosophy in a Republican platform.
That's merely because it's such a target-rich environment. ;-)
"When your taxes go up, don't complain."
I will not !! I believe in PAYING for what I buy, and not using my children's and grand-children's credit cards to do it like you "Cut Taxes Durng a War" repubs. This country has never cut taxes in the middle of a war until GWB got elected.
You said it perfectly ! In a picture and words !!
DesScorp for Senate Minority Leader! :)
"Conservatives need a slap in the face."
November 02, 2006
The 2006 Choice
By Cal Thomas
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/11/the_2006_choice.html
Conservatives who are upset that Republicans haven't done enough during their 12 years in control of the House and Senate and nearly six years in control of the White House need a slap in the face.
Republicans may have controlled all three branches of government, but conservatives haven't.
If conservatives believe enough has not been done to advance their agenda, let them work to elect more conservatives, not hand control of Congress over to a party controlled by far-left liberals who have no intention of moderating their tone or watering down their beliefs after the election.
One issue should trump all others for conservatives: judges.
As Manuel Miranda of Third Branch writes in Human Events, "If the GOP loses the Senate, precedent shows that more than 60 Bush judicial nominees will never get a Judiciary Committee hearing under the chairmanship of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).
Republicans will be unable to stop a filibuster of a next Supreme Court nominee and countless circuit court picks. This will dwarf Democrats' past six years of obstruction."
Liberals have used the courts for decades to bypass the public will and impose a secular agenda on the country.
If they win control of the Senate, their current leadership will be emboldened to continue that practice.
Any judge who manages to make it onto the bench will most likely be of the judicial philosophy of Anthony Kennedy and David Souter. Republican presidents named both men because they thought it would be easier to win the approval of Senate Democrats. Neither turned out to be conservative, despite the White House sales job to conservative groups.
Then there is the war.
We live in a time when most people do not remember what a real war looks like.
Some are horrified that nearly 3,000 Americans have died in the Iraq War, but ignore that in World War II more than 407,000 Americans died. Sixty-two million were killed on all sides.
Some say this war is taking longer than that war.
That's because this war is different from that war in that it has no home state, unless we abandon Iraq. And the enemy accepts no rules for fighting it.
Democrats speak only of withdrawing American troops and of how our presence inflames the enemy, yet they have no explanation for what inflamed them before the war.
President Bush may have to change tactics, as he has said he is willing to do, but he understands the challenge. This isn't Vietnam.
This is a religious-philosophical war for control of the planet.
Anyone who thinks any objective other than the complete defeat and humiliation of these Islamofascists will deter them from their goal of world domination is self-delusional.
Last week over lunch, I asked Vice President Dick Cheney about conservative angst. He said in previous campaigns, "I would have given a lot to get an economy this good to be able to run on." Noting the recession that occurred right after he and the president took office in 2001, Cheney told me, "We (also) had 9/11. . We had Katrina, a war.
We had to spend a lot of money on the war and homeland security. And so a series of repeated shocks... to the economy and here we are, we've got 4.6 unemployment. We added 6.6 million new jobs in the last three years. Productivity is running at an all-time high. More Americans (are) working than ever before. Inflation is under control. . The stock market has hit all-time records.
What do you want? How much better do we have to make it before people say, 'yes, that's pretty good'?" It's a good question.
Is there anyone who believes government doesn't have enough of our money? Then vote for Democrats.
Is there anyone who thinks withdrawing from Iraq before the country can stand on its own against terrorism means there won't be more terrorism? Then vote for Democrats.
Do you prefer liberal judges reading their prejudices into the Constitution and increasingly depriving us of our right to decide our own future? Then vote for Democrats.
If not, conservatives should vote Republican and then work to continue advancing conservative goals. Those goals are more likely to be reached under Republicans than under Democrats.
That's the choice this year, a choice that will be made whether one votes, or cuts and runs out of a false notion that Republicans need to be punished for not doing more.
As the vice president said, "What do you want?"
bttt
But...but...I thought us LIBERAL-tarian votes only accounted for .00001% of the vote anyway....so why the long face?
I think I heard the globalists say to both parties, as the Pharasees said to Judas, "See thou to that."
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