I don’t think libertarians are necessarily a conservative vote. The “liber” part of their name is not accidentally reminiscent of “liberalism”.
They are pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-drugs, and anti-foreign defense footprint.
Just looking at that list makes me wonder why folks think the everyday liberatarian would vote for a conservative.
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I find the Libertarian social issues AND military stance -particularly re. Iran- utterly revolting... not at all what I’D call conservative, either
If republicans wish to win one day they might consider the skills needed to form a coalition. As long as they disparage and belittle those who don't think exactly as they do good luck with those close elections.
Nah, that’s not true. If anything, Libertarians are more reminiscent of original ‘true conservatives’.
The semantics have become confused and conflated with all sorts of nonsense over time. Philosophically speaking, the US was founded as a Liberal nation—in the sense of what is now known as ‘Classical Liberalism’ or Libertarianism in the context of US politics. What happened was that the Progressives/Socialists essentially stole the word ‘Liberal’ for themselves, and so those who desired to stay true to America’s (Classical) Liberal foundations generally became the Conservatives.
"Libertarian" is derived from the word "liberty".
So why would a pro-drug Libertarian vote for a Conservative?
Libertarians too often confuse liberty with license.
Most of them I know are also pro-Open borders.
small l libertarians are just as if not more conservative than most so called conservatives..
we believe in a literal interpretation of the constitution..
we do not want to be ruled over by the federal government, regardless of which side of the political spectrum the feds are ruling by....
revert to the constitution and most if not all our nations problems will just go away, THAT is what we believe in..
which would you rather have, a party that has a cool platform that gets discarded once in power, or a platform that you can 80% agree with, can work to change, and know that once elected will stick with the platform?
In other words, do you like being deceived or not?
Yeah... That’s it. It waasn’t your pro-gay, pro-choice, anti-gun, bigger government RINO...
It was a fringe 1% Party.
Some of you idiots will never learn.
Bill Maher says he’s a Libertarian, ‘nuff said.
I once heard Michael Savage say that Liberatarians are nothing more than confused liberals.
“They are pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-drugs, and anti-foreign defense footprint.”
They are neither “pro-abortion” nor “anti-abortion” and I have found Libertarians with personal views on both sides, with the exception of the law, where they are pro-Liberty and pro-personal responsibility, as opposed to pro-government.
The same holds true for “gay” and “drug” issues. They don’t just mouth Conservative small government, limited government precepts, they believe in them, in matters of law, above and beyond their own moral choces they might make.
their excessive foreign policy isolationism is another matter
>> They are pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-drugs, and anti-foreign defense footprint.
This generalization is getting old.