Posted on 12/12/2006 7:37:39 AM PST by Small-L
Wow. I didn't know that libertarians were for:
bigger, more intrusive government
gun-control
affirmative action
expansive government "healthcare"
abortion funding
activist courts and judges
embryonic stem cell research funding
government monopoly schools
Nanny-state control over environmental issues (and everything else)
Social Security
invasive use of eminent domain
etc., etc., etc....
jw
I'm afraid you misread my post.
Whole lotta hand ringing over a whole lot of nobodies.
Yea. Give us the suitcases. Good luck getting the House, or the Senate for that matter, after the divorce.
L
Newt wrote a platform and shamed republicans into supporting it. It was enormously successful politically. Republicans threw Newt and his platform into the garbage. Americans threw Republicans into the garbage.
That fictional person wouldn't be a Libertarian.
L
Thank you for making my point.
Care to discuss the GOP's departure from Reagan's or Newt's philosophies of government? Perhaps a discussion of why the Republican Party campaigned on and even had planks calling for the elimination of the Departments of Commerce, Education, and Housing and Urban Development while the current GOP expanded them by 82%, 101% and 59% respectively. Or maybe you can explain the conservative principles behind the Medicare Drug program, NCLB, or the 29,000+ earmarks.
Guess what Scooter, we did.
How do you like us now?
Enjoy the minority Johnieboy.
Get used to it.
L
"Yea. Give us the suitcases. Good luck getting the House, or the Senate for that matter, after the divorce."
As well as those Senate seats the LP caused us too.
Good job that the LP did bringing us all together, huh?
Well written Wary. I think you and I can agree on the role of government vs. the role of the church.
The entire thought process of liberaltarianism is warped. Less taxation, tax and legalize drugs. Govt is meant to only protect the people, open borders for all. Right to life, kill the unborn at will. Right to bear arms, I am sure there is some bullet tax there. Then when you disagree with them it is all lies and that we are all kool-aid drinkers. Frankly I have come to find out that libertarians fal into three different groups.
A. Liberals who feel taxes are too high
B. Conservatives who got caught doing an illegal act and were convicted, ie dopesmokers, cocaine users etc.
C. Anarchists who want the destruction of most forms of centralized authority.
You're the ones who keep telling us about that "big tent".
Next time try bringing the walls and the ceiling. Maybe we'll be able to find it.
L
What part of RR do you feel was warped? Or his platform in '84 and '88? Or Newt's Contract for America?
Judging by a lot of posts on this thread, it goes a lot farther than that, they're not just saying "it's your fault," they're saying "get lost and stay lost." Maybe they'll get their wish.
The fact that so many freepers consider individual freedom, personal liberty and limited government to be "liberal" constructs goes a long way toward explaining why libertarians might think twice about voting Republican.
Wow, I just love these sweeping generalizations. And the insults. Those are especially fun. I wonder why it might be that you say that the libertarians can't be be relied upon for votes for the republican candidates? It wouldn't possibly be the sweeping generalizations, the easy dismissal, or the insults, would it? Nahhhh.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Mark
"I'm afraid you misread my post."
OK, sorry if I did. I'll have to reread them.
... keep up the puritan-mercantilist-militarist nonsense and they bloody-well will. see what a few dozen thousand of them can do to electoral results nationwide? stop trying to make the G.O.P. party into the G.O.D. party whose symbol is a cross made out of missiles painted with dollar signs and wrapped in the star of David.
>>Good, all Loserdopians get out and stop pretending to be conservatives<<
Ultimately, they are all just labels. Nobody fits any of them perfectly.
I think the libertarian position on gay marriage is that marriage is a religious institution and government has no business sanctioning any variety of it.
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