Posted on 11/14/2006 6:25:58 PM PST by Purple GOPer
If you're an informed voter you shouldn't have to be told.
A truly uninformed opinion.
Whatever burr he's got under his saddle, I could care less. He's trying to stir up a flame war, and I'm not going to help him by getting sucked in. He can rot.
It's as if anyone taking a stand for the Constitution, and the individual freedoms and liberties associated with it, are their sworn enemy. And then their argument nearly always digresses to the issues of slavery and/or abortion to support their beliefs in strict federal control over individual freedoms.
It seems to be ego and job security.
I post complaining that good conservatives lost and you post the above non-sequitur BS?
Are you that big a dope?
tacticalogic:
I find that career federal bureaucrats seem to be statistically way over-represented among the virulent anti-libertarians.
takenoprisoner:
It's as if anyone taking a stand for the Constitution, and the individual freedoms and liberties associated with it, are their sworn enemy. And then their argument nearly always digresses to the issues of slavery and/or abortion to support their beliefs in strict federal control over individual freedoms.
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And they avoid admitting that strict federal/state control over individual freedoms includes their belief in a power to prohibit guns. -- Or most anything else.
I'm a charter member of the St. Dismas Infirmary for the Icurably Informed. It's the prime reason why I vote "conservative" instead of straight "Republican". Especially since the idiots in the GOP are now trying to co-opt the Democrat agenda.
I'm a charter member of the St. Dismas Infirmary for the Incurably Informed. It's the prime reason why I vote "conservative" instead of straight "Republican". Especially since the idiots in the GOP are now trying to co-opt the Democrat agenda.
Yes. Good conservatives lost. I know, I voted for some of them. And? Assuming you have any further point of course...
I hate it when I do that... mea culpa...
The causal relationsip is between something that failed to occur and something that failed to occur. The two things that failed to occur were Republicans getting elected, and a bunch of them failing to get up off their ass and vote.
You mean like the recent ban by congress on internet gambling? Meantime, I can spend thousands on lottery tickets and scratch offs, travel to casinos all over the nation dropping untold thousands, and congress could care less. But now I am prohibited from playing texas holdem on the internet.
Both Republicans on the ticket here in Montana were Conservative. Stan "Blueboy" Jones, a libertarian, was and still is, a conspiracy loon, and he was co-opting the Democrat agenda.
Those casino's you can still go to were the big backers of that bill.
"What leftists love about libertarian voters is that they elect democrats....."
"That is generally not the case."
When and where it is "generally not the case" it is only so because the GOP candidate or the Dim candidate win by margins that far exceed the votes of the Libers; not because the Libers failed to mount a candidate and not because the die hard Libers voted for the GOP.
But the fact is that there are a growing number of Libertarian minded conservatives in the GOP, particularly from western states, who, would be able to advance Libertarian ideas with greater ability if more Libertarians went to the mat fighting for position in the GOP (beginning in the local party orgs) for a place, as the social conservative values voters did for over 20 years. The fact is that many Libertarian's would sometimes find allies for their positions in the GOP, among other-minded conservatives and "moderates" at times. Outside the GOP, they are not in government and have no one to make policy alliances with.
The Libers and some other "purist" conservatives hate the glass half empty of a big, diverse GOP (in which you do get allies to vote with you some of the time) and prefer the glass totally empty outside of government. Thus, they never get the ability to demonstrate their ideas in practice. Thus, they cannot attract large non-activist members.
You've gotta think these things through a bit more before you shoot yourself in the foot that way.
Oh, I do, believe me. You're still an uninformed voter still supporting a party that co-opt's a left-winged agenda.
Yeah... like limited, smaller, more Constitutional government. Real pro-2A. Private Property Rights. Getting government out of the medical care industry before they turn us into Europe. Ending the trend of public schools becoming liberalized indoctrination centers. Over turning Roe V Wade...
You mean THOSE "left wing" agenda items? You are laughable...
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