Posted on 09/11/2008 3:03:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This guy seems to have swallowed the drive-by media’s talking points whole.
He’s right. Should they hold out for perfect?
Why should any person who uses reason care anything about what the right wing, irrational hippies of "Reason Magazine" say?
Geez, I thought it said “Librarians.” Wonder where my mind is....
It's a philosophy that's skeptical of government, instead of what Repubilcans stand for now, which is to embrace government, so long as Republicans are running it.
WOT to one side, that pretty much sums up the Bush years.
If the Libertarians like the ticket because of Palin, I'll take their votes and be happy about it. If Palin can get McCain to remember some of the Conservative core principles of less government and reduced spending, I'll be happy with that too.
They’re not going to like her neoconish foreign policy...
For crying out loud. We’re going to be lectured by a Libertarian about the importance of picking a candidate with a wealth of political experience? When is the last time the Libertarians did that?
My problem with the Libertarian Party (well, one of my problems), has always been their arrogance in going for the Presidency without first establishing any type of record in terms of running a city or state.
Show me what you can do on a lower governmental level and maybe I’ll take a look at you for higher office. But I’m not going to hand the nuclear arsenal to a party that’s never run even a city.
As opposed to, say, Barry Obama's and Plugs Biden's votes (plural) for the same pork barrel project.
My comment is that if Palin is a traditional small government, pro-privacy, pro-individual rights conservative - and not the more recent variety of so-called conservative that merely replaces liberal spending decisions with something a bit less unpalatable, and which also says "screw individual rights, esp. the RKBA" - well, then, Sarah will be fine. We're not going to go from where we are now back to a miniscule government in 4, 8 or 20 years. It took generations to get here, and it'll take generations to get back.
But I'll be THRILLED if Sarah will lead the charge to repeal various gun laws like the Lautenberg Law and Section 922(o) and some of the more onerous provisions of the '68 GCA. THAT is when you know your government trusts you, when they let you buy guns: "The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. Van Vogt in "The Weapons Shops of Isher"
Who cares what loosertarians think?
Well, thanks for the insult, but I've never, ever (and know lots of other Libertarians who haven't) used a single illegal drug in my/their lives; more than I can say for the Ms. Palin. (Damn...those simplistic, knee-jerk generalizations are a bitch, ain't they?.....)
..and I know lots of Libertarians, including myself, who are supporting the McCain/Palin ticket (in some cases, admittedly, just to piss of the libs/media.....but still), so give it a rest...
Notice one of the things the liberaltarians like about Alaska:
“the de facto decriminalization of marijuana.”
And how many times on FR threads have we seen the liberaltarians deny they are dopeheads?
Here in Alaska we have quite a number of hippies from the left coast, who have escaped to the “last frontier,” not carrying on the pioneer fronteirsman tradition as the writer of this article infers, but they are here so they can practice their degenerate hippy lifestyle in the bush.
These left coast derelicts aren’t content to corrupt their neighboring western states, they have come here and are corrupting the Alaskan last frontier too. They are a plague here...and in the other neighboring states (Idaho, Montana, etc.). Politically, almost to a man, these hippy dopeheads are liberaltarians.
they may have started out as libertarians but once they have political experience, they don’t end up as libertarians.
I consider myself a libertarian, and I think the Libertarian Party is completely wrong in its opposition to the Iraq war. There's nothing about being a libertarian that says the government should not defend the citizenry from our hostile enemies, and I think the War in Iraq was a legitimate expression of that just power of government.
Also, I think the Libertarian Party is out to lunch on its open borders position, since 1) it is well within the scope of legitimate government power to protect the nation's borders; and 2) there is no such thing as a human right to live in the United States.
“Who cares what loosertarians think?”
Well, I’m not sure what a “loosertarian” is, but Ronald Reagan gave a damn about what “Libertarians” thought:
“Libertarianism is the heart and soul of conservatism” - Ronald Reagan.
Go ahead and google the quote, that is if your Nanny State Masters will allow you the freedom to do it.
Not one of the three idiots you mentioned would hold up in a vetting process.
There are plenty of decent Libertarians -- true. But not the elites of your group. Reason magazine is supposed to be the moderate voice of Libertarians and they spout utter nonsense and a good portion of their readership is anti-Semitic.
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