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Libertarians Emerge as a Force (Losertarians deep-six the GOP)
The Economist ^
| November 8, 2006
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Posted on 11/08/2006 2:27:12 PM PST by quidnunc
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To: quidnunc
Yes, obviously this is all the fault of libertarians and certainly has nothing to do with the GOP's behavior.
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posted on
11/08/2006 2:56:47 PM PST
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: quidnunc
And a conservative third-party candidate running on a pro-trains platform cost Allen the election in VA. Willie Green???
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posted on
11/08/2006 2:57:36 PM PST
by
narby
To: quidnunc
Libertarians running as third-party candidates have no chance of being elected to any national office.Big L Libertarians are not the same as small l libertarians. Big L is a Party, small l typically means economically conservative, usually more so than Republicans.
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posted on
11/08/2006 2:57:54 PM PST
by
rivercat
(The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare)
To: Sir Gawain
A blowout by the same definition the media uses to describe the GOP losses.
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posted on
11/08/2006 2:59:08 PM PST
by
eleni121
("Show me just what Mohammed brought:: evil and inhumanity")
To: NittanyLion
Sorry. Actually what you wrote makes more sense than most of the mindless tripe of the whiners blaming the Libertarians for the crappy candidates the GOP ran. Burns was/is a corrupt jerk, I've heard him speak, I know more about him than the MSM tells the sheeple and he is a dirtbag. A dirtbag with an (R) by their name is still a dirtbag.
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posted on
11/08/2006 2:59:21 PM PST
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
To: PhiKapMom
Will someone tell me why conservatives would vote for a libertarian since they are for open borders? Especially considering you can vote GOP and get same thing.
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posted on
11/08/2006 2:59:54 PM PST
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: Gondring
LOL -- FR today is worse than DU for goofball attempts to shift blame for a political fiasco. What next; dark murmurings about Diebold?
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posted on
11/08/2006 2:59:59 PM PST
by
steve-b
(It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
To: L98Fiero
I jealous that I did not think of it first!
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:01:09 PM PST
by
kenn5
To: NittanyLion
We can only be certain of three things as it relates to Libertarians:
1. They're too insignificant to have an impact on anything
2. They're more closely aligned with the Democrats anyway (that's why they're called "liberaltarians")
3. They stole enough votes from GOP candidates to impact the election ROFL -- quidnunc and Echo Talon remind me of the lawyer who advanced the following defense for a client sued for damaging a rental car:
1. My client never touched this car.
2. This car was already damaged when my client drove it off the lot.
3. This car was in perfect condition when my client returned it.
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:02:45 PM PST
by
steve-b
(It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
To: Sir Gawain
Yep. It's all about pot.
Minimum wage? Nah, too much trouble. It's all about pot.
Of course, Libertarians can't even be bothered to fight for the right to smoke tobacco.
Too much trouble.
Libertarians would put us all in chains as long as we were given an occasional doobie.
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:02:46 PM PST
by
AmishDude
(Libertarians didn't lose it for us. They're losers who work against what they claim to want.)
To: SmoothTalker
Personally I hold libertarian tendencies and don't see anything wrong with a protest vote in a safe seat. What I do have a problem with are the idiots who know an election could come down to a wire but who go out and vote third party anyway. The GOP hasn't exactly done a good job with Congress If the GOP was not chastised during this election they would only have continued their monstrous growth of government.
Tolerating bad manner only makes them grow worse.
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:03:43 PM PST
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: steve-b
LOL...that's a good one. Have to remember that.
To: AdamSelene235
I hope you can afford to protect yourself -- after the tax increases and minimum wage hikes -- when the dirty bomb hits.
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:04:17 PM PST
by
AmishDude
(Libertarians didn't lose it for us. They're losers who work against what they claim to want.)
To: Lancey Howard
paid spoiler whores that is all the libertarians are.
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:05:22 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: quidnunc
The only thing can they can do is act as spoilers for the GOP. Yes, they can spoil the GOP's attempts to move to the left.
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:05:37 PM PST
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: quidnunc
The libertarians are long on ideology, short on pragmaticism.
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:11:05 PM PST
by
My2Cents
To: quidnunc
Maybe we need to offer rides to the polls for libertarians and as many bong hits as they can take while in transit...
To: AmishDude
I hope you can afford to protect yourself -- after the tax increases and minimum wage hikes -- when the dirty bomb hits. I certainly can.
Reducing taxes is pointless in the absence of finanacial restraint. The Republican Congress and Presidency have massively increased the unfunded obligations of this nation which is just as bad as a tax hike.
If you knew anything about basic physics you wouldn't worry too much about a dirty bomb. In fact, given the data on radiation hormesis, it might actually reduce the incidence of cancer and lead to greater public acceptance of nuclear power.
If you think a dirty bomb boogy-man is going to scare me into supporting speech crime CFR legislation, expanded medicare, massive increases in social spending, further federalization of publik skewls, the Dept. of Homeland Security, TSA, free drugs for Africa, etc, etc then you deserve to dwell in the dustbin of politics.
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:15:15 PM PST
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: Vicomte13
You hit it right on the head. Bravo!
To: Vicomte13
Either way, it is pathetic of us to spend one moment whining, crying, mewling and puking about people who are A DIFFERENT PARTY "stabbing us in the back". they didn't stab us in the back; they stabbed us in the chest, in a sword fight, which they had the RIGHT to fight, because they're NOT Republicans and they owe us NOTHING. Well said!
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posted on
11/08/2006 3:16:34 PM PST
by
MamaTexan
(I am not a ~legal entity~, not am I a 'person' as created by law.)
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