[The Iron Duke]

The Libertarian Party has been saying what you wrote about shaping the debate since I was a libertarian some 25 years ago. During this period they have remained mired at around 3% of the vote nationwide and have had almost no discernible impact on the nation's ongoing political debate.

As one who likes to see my ideas yield results, I wouldn't call that acting on rational principle. I'd call that being unable to cope with the give and take of the political arena and being more interested in winning sophomoric word games than being held responsible for the logical consequences of one's electoral behavior.

I have come to conclude that the Liberatrian Party is nothing but a collection of the pseudo intellectual utopian wierdoes of the right. Like the socialists who are the bane of the Democrat Party, Libertarians are famously inflexible, they jeer at the intellectual capacity of those who dare disagree with them and they are convinced that if only the rest of the fools in the world would turn power over to them, they could build what would be be close to an earthly paradise.

And that is why I finally grew up and became a Republican.

[nopardons]

Senate goes to Talent ! GOP HAS WON CONTROL OF THE SENATE , OWNS THE HOUSE AND HAS NOT LOST THAT MANY GOVERNORSHIPS ! This from Bret, on FNC. :-)

[yoswif]

I vote Libertarian because I've never seen a Republican with the courage or compassion to question the morality of the federal governments plan to impose an 82% lifetime federal tax rate on every child in America. If Republicans are content with condemning their own children to a lifetime of slavery to the federal government, why should I trust them to protect my freedom?