Posted on 05/12/2009 12:40:50 PM PDT by AmericanHunter
The Republican Party's libertarian wing is criticizing the conviction of a Mountain Home GOP official who defied a police order to stay away from Idaho Gov. Butch Otter's office.
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
GOP in the headline....no surprise.
Pentico is acting as a gadfly. This is far from helpful to his causes and the Party. He would be wise to heed the old axiom, ‘You get better results with honey than with vinegar.’
The Republican Party’s libertarian wing ...
Huh?
“Pentico is acting as a gadfly. This is far from helpful to his causes and the Party. He would be wise to heed the old axiom, ‘You get better results with honey than with vinegar.’”
That may well be but several other lawmakers are siding with Pentico.
What do you all think of this part:
“Swain found Pentico guilty April 21, but said the application of the trespassing law to public buildings raises “troubling questions.”
Seems troubling to me too.
“The Republican Party’s libertarian wing ...
Huh?”
I know. Everyone knows that the republicans don’t want libertarian minded people in their party.
What’s your take on this political spat?
It sounds like this guy kept going into the governor’s office and bringing up the same request over and over over a long period. However it seems very odd for the police to forbid somebody from entering a public building. That’s why we have judges.
I don't know if they do or they don't in every case, but the libertarians have their own established political party.
By definition, that precludes any other party from categorizing or including them as a “wing.”
Kind of like talking about the American Nazi wing of the Democrat party.
“I don’t know if they do or they don’t in every case, but the libertarians have their own established political party.”
That’s a fair enough observation. I do think that the republican party has abandoned some of the platforms that were shared with the libertarian party in the past though. Small federal government, fiscal responsibility, etc. At least in practice, if not rhetoric.
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