[af_vet_rr]

If your views were always that Program A is bad, you were conservative because you were against expanding government to it and now you are libertarian because you want to cut it.

This is kind of how I'm seeing things now. You're right - a Republican used to be against expanding government, or wanting to scale it back. Now that Republicans in general support bigger government (and proved this under George W. Bush and the Republican-led Congress, and with all of the compromising they are doing with Obama and the Senate these days), they've decided that the small government types must be libertarians.

Doesn't matter to me though, I'm no longer a Republican, I'm simply a Conservative. Some day the Republican Party might include me if it stops moving left, and instead goes back to the right, but in the meantime, it can piss off.

[donmeaker]

Odd, I was a Libertarian back when Reagan was president, and became a Republican after that.

I was pleased at some point that I moved into Ron Paul’s district. Then I figured out that he had a number of neo-rebs that supported him, which was a disappointment. I looked closely at his voting record, and he would trade votes, voting against bills with his set asides that were sure to pass and voting measures where his vote was needed, and getting his set asides later for his sell out today.

At some time I realized that if you can’t take over half on one major political party you can not run the government or even have much influence on the country.