[speekinout]

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.

[tpaine]

Well said, but your point will be lost on communitarian's, those here who believe only in the 'principle' of majority rule..

[Eric Blair 2084]

The parliamentary system in the US might at first glance seem to be radically different than the ones used in Western Europe or Israel. Over there, it seems like you have to have 4,769 different parties together in order to form a governing "coalition".

NEWS FLASH: It's the same here in the good old USA. It's just not as transparent yet. Within both the Republican and Democratic parties there is a huge rift. What else would you expect? Anytime you try to fit 160,000,000 voting age Americans under one of two umbrellas, you are bound to get soaked with millions of competing ideas and philosophies.

LIBERTARIANS MATTER. Don't let them fool you.

But golly gee willikers, this idea of attaching yourself to the looney left and their Big Government social engineering programs in the name of progress and the "common good"?

I'll say the same thing to fellow Libertarians (Milton Friedman was my idol and I'm only a quasi-Libertarian) that I say to the Evangelicals: