Did You Know This?? The SD Libertarian candidate dropped out 3 weeks ago...

AP ^ | 11-6-02 | Chet Brokaw

[Protagoras]

I give you credit for at least addressing the question. You are misguided in supporting these lying scum, but at least it's understandable. It takes courage to at least address it, unlike the cowards who have cut and run. I commend you for it.

[donozark]

So do you favor NRST? A TRUE Flat-tax?

[Protagoras]

I don't favor theft in any form. But some forms are less intrusive and give the government less power.

The NSRT is less intrusive, by far.

[donozark]

Hope you are in an area where you can listen to RUSH. Roger Hedgecock has been discussing Libertarianism vs. Republicans. I'll get back in a minute with a couple of Q's.

[donozark]

Curious to know if Democrats have made a sincere effort to reach out to Libertarians as the Republicans have via the Liberty Caucus? RLC.org. Ron Paul, the most famous Libertarian in America (and now a Republican) is past Chairman of this org.

[Protagoras]

Curious to know if Democrats have made a sincere effort to reach out to Libertarians

Not to my knowledge.

[BranMakMorn]

And if the feckless, childish libertarians want to continue with their "all or nothing" pouts and tantrums, they can't expect anything but the more or most liberal candidate to win in close elections.

Actually, the person who makes a personal decision to vote for the candidate he feels represents his values is the adult. It's the person who blindly votes for a party instead of a person who is the child.

And please spare us the tired old argument that the Republicans are simply 'Libertarian-lite', and that we should just trust them to implement essentially what the Libertartians propose anyway. Unless you know of some as-yet unannounced legislative campaign by the Republican party in power to eliminate the Dept's of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, HHS, HUD, Interior, Labor, and Transportation, all of which are all unconstitutional?

Funny - the logo for the Free Republic web site has as it's motto "Defending Our Constitution". Yet when people who have actually read the Constitution try to vote for people who actually respect it (as opposed to the vast number of politicians who give it lip service), they get attacked. Go figure.

[Kevin Curry]

Libertarians don't defend spit. They are mental political masturbators. The incremental rise of libertarianism--small though it has been--resulted in a Democrat controlled Senate and has taken us further down the road toward nanny state entitlements for druggies.

Talk is cheap; ideas are free. Libertarian have big mouths and cramped intelligence. Responsible conservatives vote and work hard to to keep the greater evil at bay. Libertarians do not. They are moral cowards of the first magnitude.

[BranMakMorn]

Libertarians don't defend spit. They are mental political masturbators. The incremental rise of libertarianism--small though it has been--resulted in a Democrat controlled Senate and has taken us further down the road toward nanny state entitlements for druggies.

Talk is cheap; ideas are free. Libertarian have big mouths and cramped intelligence. Responsible conservatives vote and work hard to to keep the greater evil at bay. Libertarians do not. They are moral cowards of the first magnitude.

Ok, sorry, I didn't know that you wore a tin foil hat. Nevermind - it's pointless to try to argue with someone with as warped an agenda as yours.

[WOSG]

you represent the lunatic fringe Takes one to know one I guess.

"ThomasJefferson": You dont seem interested in Libertarian ideas AT ALL ... all you do is bash Republicans, and your bashing is eerily similar to what a left-wing socialist would say to bash republicans. the 'david duke' lie, the "thugs" reference, now the "taliban" bash.

[WOSG]

They stand in the way of power. Not at all, no more than a gnat stand in the way of a Mack truck on I-40. Socialist Democrats have gotten elected and ignored profreedom voters who vote for minor parties.

Power before principle. Republican before American. another pointless slander - it is quite arrogant to assume that others dont love America just because they disagree with you on either the strategy or tactics or even vision of how to make America better.

[Protagoras]

Uh, in case you were confused, THIS is a libertarian bashing thread. One of scores that show up here every week now. I bash back. The stuff I say to these goofs is a parody on what they say on thread after thread. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were ignorant about that.

Anytime you or anyone else wants to elevate this site out of the chat room status to which it has sunk and actually discuss IDEAS, all you have to do is take the cadre of libertarian bashers to task. I will happily resume normal conversation.

But it ain't gonna happen, because your type not only tolerates it, but eggs them on.

Management has seen fit to allow them to slowly ruin the site, and hey, it's their site, so it's their decision.

So now you can take your self rightous bs and put it where the sun don't shine until you are ready to demand the same of those who started all the messy bs in the first place.