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Phillies: "Libertarians are not conservatives"
Third Party Watch ^ | April 6, 2008 | Unattributed

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."


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2obvious4words; abortion; calling; captainobvious; conservatives; elections; liberal; libertarian; thirdparty
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To: zeestephen

Exactly.


41 posted on 04/06/2008 12:23:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: RKV

No flames from me.


42 posted on 04/06/2008 1:03:33 PM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: itsahoot

Strawman argument in this case.


43 posted on 04/06/2008 1:09:44 PM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: FocusNexus
"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.

He is having a delusion. When have conservatives ever been lured into the libertarian party? It's the other way around. Libertarians tend to vote conservative - or at least they have tended to do so between wars.

44 posted on 04/06/2008 1:14:56 PM PDT by BitBucket
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To: itsahoot
This forum is over run with them, pretending to be Conservative. Ayn Rand is quoted here more often than Jesus.

She wasn't a Libertarian. She despised Libertarians - mainly because most of the people she lured into her objectivist movement soon left and moved on to the libertarianism.

45 posted on 04/06/2008 1:19:56 PM PDT by BitBucket
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To: FocusNexus

Are you a Phillies Phanatic?

46 posted on 04/06/2008 1:23:25 PM PDT by x
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To: arderkrag
Anyone who wants to legislate on social issues, be they socially conservative or liberal, is a socialist and should be kept out of office.

Should rape be legal?

47 posted on 04/06/2008 1:33:27 PM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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To: FocusNexus

Phillies is correct. If the Bill of Rights doesnt apply to the states then the 2nd Amendment doesnt either. And theres only two or three state constitutions where the RKBA is considered an individual right.


48 posted on 04/06/2008 1:33:34 PM PDT by OmegaMan
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To: FocusNexus
"Libertarians are not conservatives"

Libertarians are more conservative than the current crop of Republicans.
49 posted on 04/06/2008 1:36:23 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: arderkrag

“I consider anyone who is conservative economically a true conservative. Anyone who wants to legislate on social issues, be they socially conservative or liberal, is a socialist and should be kept out of office.”


This is from the FR mission statement.

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Here is a thread that you should take a look at (again, posted by FR’s founder).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821435/posts?q=1&;page=1#1


50 posted on 04/06/2008 1:38:52 PM PDT by ansel12 (If your profit margin relies on criminality to suppress wages, then you deserve to be out.)
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To: xjcsa

Rape infringes on civil rights. It is therefore not a moral issue but a legal one. Nice try, though.


51 posted on 04/06/2008 1:45:49 PM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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To: arderkrag
Rape infringes on civil rights. It is therefore not a moral issue but a legal one. Nice try, though.

How is abortion different?

52 posted on 04/06/2008 1:46:26 PM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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To: xjcsa

Umm...I never said abortion was. You sure you’re talking to the right person?


53 posted on 04/06/2008 1:59:39 PM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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To: arderkrag
Precisely. I consider anyone who is conservative economically a true conservative. Anyone who wants to legislate on social issues, be they socially conservative or liberal, is a socialist and should be kept out of office.

If that's that definition of a libertarian then I must be one too.

54 posted on 04/06/2008 2:00:45 PM PDT by Nipfan
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To: xjcsa

Should rape be legal?

Of course not. And no rational interpretation of Libertarian concepts would suggest that any Libertarian principle would ever support such a conclusion.

For a good primer on libertarian concepts I suggest reading the works of the founding fathers of our country. That should provide a clear answer to your question.

55 posted on 04/06/2008 2:02:18 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: FocusNexus; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:

Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of interest.

The LP is a profoundly hedonistic, self-centered group. It is always about self and sensuality. Legalize abortion, drug use, prostitution, sexual license of any kind including sex with children (they hide that one well, but the believe that childhood ends at the point you are economically self-sufficient) - a total license for self-gratification without regards to others aside from violence.

56 posted on 04/06/2008 2:05:41 PM PDT by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: Nipfan
Honestly, that's pretty much what it boils down to. There may be disagreements here and there over whether something is a "social" issue or not (the most recent being abortion), but on the whole, that's what we think. A good illustration is the political compass chart, which places libertarians in the economically conservative but socially apathetic categories. Not that we individually are socially apathetic, but we don't think it's government's job to dictate morality.
57 posted on 04/06/2008 2:06:14 PM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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To: arderkrag
Umm...I never said abortion was. You sure you’re talking to the right person?

Quite possibly not, although abortion laws are usually categorized as "social issues" legislation, which you criticized. If your statement wasn't meant to include abortion laws, then I'm afraid we don't really disagree ;)

58 posted on 04/06/2008 2:45:14 PM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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To: freeandfreezing
Of course not. And no rational interpretation of Libertarian concepts would suggest that any Libertarian principle would ever support such a conclusion.

Yet the guy quoted in this article claims that libertarianism forces us to allow abortion. Is he wrong, or is abortion somehow different from rape?

59 posted on 04/06/2008 2:47:07 PM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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To: Drango
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.

What do you think of Bob Barr?
What did you used to think to think of him?

60 posted on 04/06/2008 2:47:12 PM PDT by carenot (Proud member of The Flying Skillet Brigade)
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