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To: CedarDave
Cuccinelli would have won if the so-called Libertarian (maybe a Rat plant)

He wasn't the "so-called" libertarian, he was the libertarian, representing the libertarians.

38 posted on 11/05/2013 9:40:43 PM PST by ansel12 ( Democrats-"a party that since antebellum times has been bent on the dishonoring of humanity.)
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To: ansel12

Umm, no. He was a dem plant bankrolled by the democrats. FACT.


45 posted on 11/05/2013 9:48:12 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: ansel12
He wasn't the "so-called" libertarian, he was the libertarian, representing the libertarians.

The guy was a liberal.

Sarvis ran on the Libertarian ticket, but he was no libertarian. Libertarians despise government regulation and taxes. National Review on what this guy really believes:

the better-informed voters in Virginia have been somewhat perplexed by Robert Sarvis, for in recent weeks he appears to have been doing his level best to give the impression that his party label is incidental. In a recent Reason interview, Sarvis explained that he was “not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics,” preferring “more mainstream economics” instead. The candidate expanded on this during an oddly defensive interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, in which he seemed put off not so much by “strongly libertarian economics” as by libertarian economics per se. As governor, Sarvis told Todd, he would be hesitant to cut taxes, unsure as to how he might “reduce spending,” and open to indulging the largest piece of federal social policy since 1965 by expanding Virginia’s Medicaid program. I am generally a critic of the tendency of small-government types to try to purge their ranks of those deemed sufficiently impure, but I must confess that this interview left even me wondering whether Sarvis is in need of a dictionary.

Worse yet was Sarviss rambling interview with the Virginia Prosperity Project, in which the candidate expressed his enthusiasm for increasing gas levies, and for establishing a “vehicle-miles-driven tax.” It strikes me that it is almost impossible to square such a measure with any remotely coherent “libertarian” position on that most sacred of rights: privacy. Virginias mooted VMT plan requires the installation of government GPS systems in private cars — an astonishingly invasive proposal. Even if this isn’t what Sarvis has in mind, the fact remains that there is simply no way of determining how far an individual has driven without the government’s checking.


50 posted on 11/05/2013 9:51:17 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: ansel12

Sarvis was a Dem plant and sadly the fools in VA fell for it, probably thought they were going to get their free drugs, prostitution, no sex age law, open borders and homosexual agenda


180 posted on 11/06/2013 6:20:59 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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