Posted on 09/30/2013 9:24:47 AM PDT by shego
During his Ironman 21-hour speech, Sen. Ted Cruz read excerpts from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, name-dropped "libertarians" at least six times, and yielded to Sen. Rand Paul, who invoked Frederic Bastiat's "What is Seen and Unseen," a favorite among libertarians.
Ted Cruz, who retained remarkable composure over the long night, seems in all things deliberate. Political leaders seem to have become more comfortable talking about libertarians, even identifying themselves as such. Libertarians may have reached a tipping point within the Republican Party.
Last week, a FreedomWorks study on public opinion found that libertarian views within the Republican Party are at the highest point in a decade, today representing 41 percent of Republican voters....
We define libertarians as those who favor "smaller government" and think government should not promote "traditional values." Using this method, FreedomWorks data show that 41 percent of Republicans and Republican leaning independents are libertarian today.
Two separate data sources, Gallup and ANES, show the same trend: that libertarian views are at the highest point in a decade....
Of course, as I've have noted previously, not all these libertarians self-identify as such and many don't know the word. But even that seems to be changing, and it's not just Ted Cruz.
Sen. Rand Paul calls himself a "libertarian-leaning Republican." Glenn Beck now considers himself libertarian, saying "I'm a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel." Matt Drudge recently tweeted his frustration with Republicans on Syria, saying it's now "authoritarian vs. libertarian." According to FreedomWorks' poll, only 10 percent of Republicans "don't know" the word libertarian, compared to 27 percent nationally.
The data confirm that libertarian views may well have reached a tipping point in the Republican Party.
(Excerpt) Read more at cato.org ...
Reagan was no libertarian, that shouldn’t be news to you.
He also disagreed with you and the libertarian position on homosexualizing the military and gay marriage.
Bullcrap. If you think the ship of state can be righted by supporting a queer-loving, anti-gun abortion-supporter, you're delusional.....or worse, amoral.
Well, that’s your take on it. Personally I don’t care about the drugs themselves. It’s the “war” that is being waged on every american by every level of government in the name of fighting drugs. You might like the police state, but some of us could do without it. And as I’ve tried to tell people for a long time...the government is just sharping it’s claws on the pot heads. When they’re done practicing, their attention will turn to gun confiscation or raiding homeschoolers or some other group you may have some affinity for.
LOL, are you so out of touch that you don’t know what “traditional American values” are as you promote a liberatrian/leftist social agenda?
You support this left wing agenda? Count how many your fellow travelers have already succeeded at during the last 50 years, and then ponder the result, it moves us farther to the left and makes conservative economics impossible.
Here is the leftists agenda hidden behind the Libertarian Party curtain.
Throw open the borders completely; only a rare individual (terrorist, disease carrier etc.) can be kept from freedom of movement through “political boundaries”.
Homosexuals; total freedom in the military, gay marriage, adoption, child custody and everything else.
Abortion; zero restrictions or impediments.
Pornography; no restraint, no restrictions.
Drugs; Meth, Heroin, Crack, and anything new that science can come up with, zero restrictions.
Advertising those drugs, prostitution, and pornography; zero restrictions.
Military Strength; minimal capabilities.
I am an unapologetic social conservative, and I will remain that way regardless of whether the Republican Party is controlled by liberals or libertarians. If you want my vote, you have to earn it. It won’t be given away. You can’t have my vote without respecting my values.
Fence sitters. Not taking a stand is not a conservative platform.
We are on the same side. This is why the founders hated parties. Its a time for learning and growing for us all.
In other words drugs are the most important thing to Libertarians, to be dwelt upon ad nauseum even in the face of looming national crisis.
The bad news is that the argument is with the deluded little man in your head.
I’m a libertarian before Republican, don’t give a hoot about drugs (except that non-druggies like you and me would suffer a less intrusive and costly police state if we got feds out of the drug enforcement industry), oppose abortion and support the right of state voters to defend innocent unborn life, and believe that drugs and abortion are irrelevant if the government leviathan continues its unsustainable course.
Now, do you want me on your side, or do you want to pi$$ off those who truly understand the principles of liberty?
“Abortion is irrelevant”
Really?
All you need to do on this board is say the word “libertarian” to set some folks hair on fire!
(shrug) Not for me. But pushing a pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-queer racebaiter for governor of my state? Or saying that "abortion is irrelevant", no matter how you qualify it?
Oh, yeah. That will get me started. I would think any other conservative would feel the same, right?
Then why does your candidate for VA governor, Robert Sarvis, want to push his leftwing social views on the state?
He wants to make people take drugs, marry somebody of the same sex, etc? News to me....
So it seems. It's like trying to explain to leftists that you can't keep spending more than you take in.
There are still people here who would like to use your rifle.
BINGO.
You nailed it with your parade analogy...
Barf Alert indeed.
This is not the first article - nor will it be the last - to attempt to insult Cruz in this fashion.
I see you’re still trolling FR with your liberal lies and BS.
Now, do you want me on your side, or do you want to pi$$ off those who truly understand the principles of liberty?
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Well, since you DID ask...
PISS OFF!
(see tagline ya newbie troll)
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