Yawnnnnnnn....losertarians don't listen to anything other than the radio beams broadcasted into their heads. Trust me...insults work better than reason with these nut jobs.
Posted on 04/06/2008 10:57:13 AM PDT by FocusNexus
From the Phillies 2008 campaign:
Libertarian Presidential candidate George Phillies today condemned claims that the Libertarian Party is a right-wing conservative Party. "Libertarians are not conservatives," Phillies said. "It is an act of fraud, a violation of our party's statement of principles, to lure conservatives to join by lying to them. Claiming our party is 'true conservative' is dishonest, and will wreck our party.
"Yes," Phillies continued, "there are issues where we agree with conservatives. There are also issues where we agree with progressive liberals. For voters: If you agree with us on issues you care about, please vote for us. If you think you trust our candidate, please vote for him. No matter if you're liberal or conservative or populist, we'd love to have your vote. But I'm not going to lie, just to get your vote."
"We real libertarians have a challenge," Phillies said. "Some conservatives pretend to be Libertarians. Fifty years ago, conservatives claimed states had a right to keep persons of color from voting. Conservatives were wrong. Now, conservatives claim states have a right to keep women from having abortions. That claim is the same old racist Jim-Crow states' rights doctrine. It's still wrong. Our Constitution's 14th Amendment makes things crystal clear. If Congress isn't allowed to do it, neither are individual states.
Phillies urged fellow Libertarians to be prepared. "Yes, we have challenges. But we're up against the Bush Republican War Party, and that's a huge advantage. Just don't let conservatives take over our party. America already has two conservative parties, Republican and Constitution. We shouldn't become the third."
Well DUH!!
I have no intention of voting for the libers, but...
If you think you trust our candidate, please vote for him. No matter if you're liberal or conservative or populist, we'd love to have your vote.
But I'm not going to lie, just to get your vote.”
I agree with that statement 100%.
If all politicians were of like mind, the country would be fine.
Sadly, they are not. far from it.
Waiting for some conservatives to start insulting libertarians as dope smokers and the like... Reasonable people should be able to figure out that you might not want to insult someone whose vote you want. Of course that won’t stop the true believers.
Life is such that you aren’t going to get 100% of what you want. It is rational to make common cause with others to get more of what you want than you would otherwise. You want to give people reasons to change their minds, then that might work, but without respect, it’s never going to happen.
Flame on.
Phillies suck!!!
Mets in 2008!!!!
Better to vote for a libertarian who believe in smaller Gov’t than a Fabianist.
More is the pity. Most little “l” libertarians could live with that better than big government RINOs in charge as is now the case.
For me, it's the Supreme Court that matters, and because of that Obama/Hillary must lose.
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has been quoted that he is a libertarian:
“Sure. I am a libertarian. I’ve taken the libertarian exam and scored perfect on it. There’s this 10 question quiz that the Libertarian Party puts out. They give you 30, 20, or 10 points depending on how you answer the questions. I’ve gotten all 30’s.”
— Reason Magazine April 1999, page 44.
“How could those buildings fall at the speed of gravity - if you put a stopwatch on them both of those World Trade Center buildings were on the ground in ten seconds - how can that be?” asked Ventura. “Never before in the annals of history has a fire caused a steel structure building to fall to the ground like these two did.”
— Jesse Ventura, April 2008, Alex Jones Show
Excellent post! It’s ashame there aren’t more here who think like that.
That is the hopeful position. Then of course Bush Sr. gave us Souter.
Yea, DUH!!!!
They are not conservatives, but they are whack jobs.....
Same approach can work with some reasonable Democrats too. Like Reagan did. Demonstrate why policies are in their own enlightened self interest and you might gain some allies. Not all to be sure. Hopefully enough.
That’s going to convince a lot of libertarians to support us. Yeah, insulting people you disagree with is going to help. The RATs that is.
Yawnnnnnnn....losertarians don't listen to anything other than the radio beams broadcasted into their heads. Trust me...insults work better than reason with these nut jobs.
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