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?
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.
Agree with a lot of it (especially) if she stay true to her conservative individual self (not big-government Republican-AKA the “insiders” which is Party leadership). Don’t agree with his opposition to “social conservtism”. Libertarian and Social Conservative aren’t mutually exclusive (especially for those who understand the US Constitution and know the court prescedent).
Love her even more !!
I'm pretty sure they already have...
THIS libertarian is a proud barracuda-head!