“Unable to address the social issues that divide libertarian and conservative ideologies (because you can’t), you throw a tantrum, hurl an insult and walk away pouting. Typical.”
Because you continue to call him a Libertarian despite his repeated assertions of being a libertarian? What’s left to discuss. This argument that goes on, is about as ignorant as engaging a liberal who uses phrases like “teabagger” and “racist”. Might as well just walk away. You people in thread after thread continue to insist that everyone who even hints at being libertarian-minded as being a card-carrying member of the Libertarian party. No matter how many times the other person says they are not, the idiotic accusations continue.
Like I said I might as well be arguing with a sycophant liberal who says the tea party is racist. You both have about the same level of intellectual curiosity.
No, Matt is right IMO. Why vote Republican when they do nothing to show they are an opposition party.
For decades they always made deals in the middle with Democrats, but all the deals were liberal ones and they always helped slip the nation to the left.
Granted the Democrats have the press, they get money laundered to their party through government unions and have the vote of most all on the dole, so it is a daunting task in an almost one party system to do anything. Still, Republicans don’t even try these days and are just a beltway supportive party to the Democrat party these days.
End them and start again by putting Tea Party types at grass roots levels into both Democrat and Republican races.
“Because you continue to call him a Libertarian despite his repeated assertions of being a libertarian?”
See my #2. I’ve been very careful to distinguish between Libertarian and libertarian and have hurled no insults. Maybe you don’t understand the underlying ideology underpinning both.
You folks continually assert that you believe in personal choices and responsibility yet refuse to address the social implications of your beliefs. Or are you saying you are libertarian when it comes to economics and foreign policy, but want the heavy hand of government regulating social policy vis-a-vis abortion? If so, you make no sense from a libertarian standpoint. If me pointing that out makes you upset, be upset.
“Every time a conservative calls this out, libertarians on this site either pretend that the social stuff is invisible (downplay it), scold conservatives that they really don’t understand libertarian ideology, or become “cafeteria Catholics” and tell us how we must pick and choose our issues.”
I expect to get the “cafeteria Catholic” arguement next.