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Libertarian or Libertarian?
realclearpolitics.com ^ | December 19, 2006 | Bruce Bartlett

Posted on 12/20/2006 3:27:19 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 12/20/2006 3:27:21 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Liberterrarian.


2 posted on 12/20/2006 3:28:28 PM PST by agooga (Let the Wookie win!!!)
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To: neverdem

Bob Barr will be debating in NYC in January on guess what topic? Medical marijuana.


3 posted on 12/20/2006 3:30:19 PM PST by firebrand
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To: neverdem

This should be interesting.


4 posted on 12/20/2006 3:30:55 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: neverdem
I had a run in with a Libertarian the other day. He was more Liberal than the Liberals. Then he said, we Conservatives weren't Conservative. I smiled and thought, wow,and we thought Liberals were dangerous!
5 posted on 12/20/2006 3:31:10 PM PST by Paige ("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington)
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To: traviskicks

Ping


6 posted on 12/20/2006 3:33:48 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: firebrand
Bob Barr will be debating in NYC in January on guess what topic? Medical marijuana.

Who's he debating?

7 posted on 12/20/2006 3:34:11 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: neverdem
The basic problem with the Libertarian Party is the same problem faced by all third parties: It cannot win.

It can make a major party lose however.
8 posted on 12/20/2006 3:34:24 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: Paige

I'm a libertarian and I'm no steenking liberal-- beware of Bill Maher types masquerading as "libertarians" to impress their friends and co-workers with their maverick political philosophy.


9 posted on 12/20/2006 3:34:25 PM PST by agooga (Let the Wookie win!!!)
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To: agooga

The author explicitly distinguishes between libertarian philosphy and the platform of the Libertarian Party, ie libertarians from Libertarians. It's going to be interesting to see if it's possible to have a discussion in that context.


10 posted on 12/20/2006 3:41:34 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: neverdem
"In place of the party, there should arise a new libertarian interest group organized like the National Rifle Association or the various pro- and anti-abortion groups."

As soon as this party starts to gain a significant following, the Republican Party will adopt the same platform. You don't think they're going to just sit back and lose.

Now, that's good for us, but spells doom for the third party. Once they're gone, the Republican Party goes back to what they were doing before.

11 posted on 12/20/2006 3:42:05 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: tacticalogic
This should be interesting.

Communitarian vs libertarian always is.

Majority rule is a socialistic political disease that infects all factions of all parties.

12 posted on 12/20/2006 3:45:11 PM PST by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: kinoxi
It can make a major party lose however.

This is incorrect. It's the policies of major parties and their leaders which cause them to lose elections.

Witness the loss of GHW Bush in 1992.

Then witness the loss of Dole in 1996.

Obviously the GOP didn't learn anything between these two elections, yet the party faithful will always blame Perot.

Witness the loss of the GOP this year. Which third party caused them to lose? None. The policies of the party and it's leaders caused this.

But then, the GOP has always found it easier to blame the Libertarians rather than take resposibility for their own actions.

13 posted on 12/20/2006 3:52:48 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (Karen Ryan reporting...)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

You bring up 1992 to contradict my point?


14 posted on 12/20/2006 3:55:16 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: robertpaulsen

So? Isn't that the point - to get libertarian principles established? What difference does it make which party does it?
I'm not into vendettas against current politicians or hero worship of any of them. I'd vote for anyone who supports my principles.


15 posted on 12/20/2006 3:56:05 PM PST by speekinout
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To: neverdem

The only advantage to officially belonging to a party is participating in the "primary process." Otherwise it is pointless.



Even after a voter changes official party designation or claims independent status, the original party still probably bombards the voter with spam, begging for cash.

Independent and off the radar is the best bet.


16 posted on 12/20/2006 4:01:31 PM PST by WhiteGuy (GOP Congress - 16,000 earmarks costing US $50 billion in 2006)
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To: neverdem

Republicans keep making the same false assumption about the liberal-tarians. They keep thinking these people are on our side and groan every time we lose a close race by less than the votes a liberal-tarian gets. This is a waste of time. These people aren't our voters. The rat is the one who should moan when WE win a close race like that. liberal-tarians are just democrats who don't like hearing that they are out loud. Barr is a jerk. He was and may still be on the board of the aclu. You do the math.


17 posted on 12/20/2006 4:01:41 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Millions of Democrat babies aborted in 1988 or earlier did not vote this year.)
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To: speekinout
Well said, but your point will be lost on communitarian's, those here who believe only in the 'principle' of majority rule..
18 posted on 12/20/2006 4:02:40 PM PST by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: firebrand
Bob Barr will be debating in NYC in January on guess what topic? Medical marijuana.

I hope he's boned up for the topic.

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19 posted on 12/20/2006 4:03:29 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

The problem is, the Republicans haven't given people who don't agree with the religious right, pork-barrel spending, or general incompetence much of an alternative.


20 posted on 12/20/2006 4:04:29 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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