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To: gcruse
Maybe so, maybe not. Big 'L' Libertarianism has some bad ideas, eg, open borders, anti-Iraqi war. Maybe we small 'l'ers need a different name?

I think we do. I call myself a libertarian for lack of a better term (though the guy in the article did a good job of articulating a position very similiar to mine, and called himself a conservative-libertarian hybrid).

I do think that the Libertarian party has some flaky ideas that I don't agree with, and I do get real sick of people assuming I agree with all of it just because I use the same word (but with a different size L ::grin::) to identify myself. Witness cinFla's comments above re: "you believe in this, you believe in that". No, I don't. But I'm also not a social conservative. So what does that make me?

One term I use instead (and is in my profile) is "South Park Republican". This is a phrase I've heard thrown around to describe people of the fiscal conservative/socially moderate persuasion. Use of that tends to avoid the big/small L issue, but then people think I live in a place called South Park, instead of watching in on TV ::lol::

LQ

50 posted on 05/12/2003 4:53:17 PM PDT by LizardQueen
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To: LizardQueen
I like that. South Park Republican. That's me, too!
53 posted on 05/12/2003 4:57:00 PM PDT by gcruse (Vice is nice, but virtue can hurt you. --Bill Bennett)
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