Dittos! Not sure why some are getting so upset. If the liberterian party can help us get rid of the marxist thug in the WH in 2012..we should welcome them. They are not big enough to have any major affect on any conservative platform..however we would do well to take some of their fiscal platforms to heart. At least they spoke out on Obama sending his goons into the streets to beat up American citizens...where is the GOP?
Ronald Reagan welcomed a coalition to beat back the democrats and so should we imho. It doesn’t mean we change our values to suit theirs..it means we win their support to stop the marxist jugernaut and hopefully win some to our side in the process.
Dittos back!
Yeah. I've been mostly registered L and vote that way, but I'll vote R if circumstances warrant it, never D and never, ever RINO.
If more followed President Reagan's example and stopped throwing libertarians under the bus, who are looking for any reasonable excuse to vote Republican, the party might do better.
Yours is a well thought out response to someone who is completely irrational on the subject of Libertarians. I've watched ansel12 hijack thread after thread posting exactly the same crap about Libertarians, over and over again -- so much so that it could have been pre-programmed by a computer. It's his "shtick" -- being a one-trick, anti-libertarian pony. He's got nothing else relevant to say.
If the Republican Party would have issued that press release, the general public would have written off the accusations as "partisan politics". But when the Libertarians point the finger, it carries more weight because they don't tend to do that kind of thing.
That the Libertarians stood up to Obama is to be commended, not derided. As you stated, the Libertarian Party is no real numerical threat to the Republican Party. The only part of the Libertarian platform that is appealing to the mainstream is their "small government, free citizen" message. What's sad about that is that this "small government, free citizen" message used to be the Republican message, but somewhere along the way, we lost that message in favor of a more statist model.