Have any of you actually read the official Libertarian
Party Platform? Of any who consider themselves to be
conservatives and are really sincere while advocating it,
I doubt it.
Libertarian Party: Platform
http://www.lp.org/issues/platform/ Read it. Now think. Would such policy allow your
nearest neighbor to lean on his legal locked and loaded
50 caliber machine gun (which can pierce lightly armored
houses many miles away) while legally injecting cocaine
into his vein and seducing your, say, 10-year-old child
into his satanic cult while it would be illegal for you
to "kidnap" them back? Do you believe in "separation
of church and state?" ...all kinds of abortion legalized?
Follow the URL address above and read the pertinent
parts of their platform. If you do, then you'll know
why I call them liberaltarians.
The tiny, extraneous parties trying to break
the Republican Party by splitting the vote will remain
so small as to be unnoticed...except for their rantings
on the Net.
Frum's column targeted all who say they are
conservatives while opposing national defense.
Mercer's comments like "...nasty specter of the
American metropole at its most shameful.." and
"American insularity and cultural chauvinism" are
blatantly anti-American, as was her generalized
quotation against any kind of national defense
at the end of her piece.
Mercer's comments were more honestly and openly
anti-American than the insidious seductions of many
others who work so hard to split the Republican vote
by attempting to woo idiots into nearly nonexistant
parties that advocate social anarchy, create vast
conspiracy stories or blame the Jews for American
policies that they disagree with (e.g., Buchanan).
As for Mercer's statements about property rights,
those are an obvious straw man. Conservatives (as
opposed to others who hash the label) are in favor
of property rights.
Conservatism includes its social tenets. We don't
want to dismantle our national defense, legalize
unlimited vice in all places or allow any and all
aliens without any regulation.