""One thing though, I have noticed about libertarians I have known personally is that very few seem to want to talk about much beyond making "medicinal" ""
I am one libertarian Republican who held his nose and voted straight ticket Republican, only because, as bad as the GOP has been lately, the Dems will be worse.
At this juncture, I don't know if I am madder at the Republicans for blowing a(n) historic opportunity to shrink government to Constitutional limits, or the voters for failing to see how bad the Dems will be.
I have worked for Republican candidates, and ran as one myself, getting no support from our local, or state, GOP. I'm done. If this is the best the GOP can do, and if this is what the voters want, good luck. I'm no longer optimistic about America's future.
Rush has often asked Dems why they love Clinton, when he lost them control of Congress. Perhaps they can ask us the same question about Bush. I was always suspicious about why he had to qualify his conservatism by calling it "compassionate." In my mind, conservatism, or at least the Reaganite version, is, by its nature, compassionate.
Bush signed on to the Kennedy version of the education bill, which was stripped of school choice, without which any education reform is just more big government. Bush signed on to the medicare extension, which will cost us massive amounts of money. He must bear a large part of the responsibility for Tuesday's disaster. He's still our President, and I will support him, and, with what the Dems will be putting him through, he will need all of our support, but, he did nothing in either term, except for the tax cuts, to stave off the disaster.
Under the Bush Presidency, and Republican control of Congress, the government has gotten bigger, more expensive, and more intrusive.
Even in his vaunted war on terror, we have been fighting a war, just like Korea and Vietnam, in a limited theater of operations, while the enemy is fighting us worldwide. Now the Dems will make it all worse.
I'm beginning to believe that our electoral system is broken, and another civil war would not surprise me.