HAS OUR TIME COME? (Blame CATO/Libertarians for this election result)

CATO Institute by way of Heretical Ideas.com ^ | 10/24/2006 | Tom Traina

[Matchett-PI]

Re: the Senate: After seeing that the Republican in Montana is aproximately 1500 votes behind the DemocRAT and 10,000 votes went to the Libertarian party in that state, I am willing to bet that if we look at all the close races last night, we will find that the Libertarian party candidate got most of the votes that would otherwise have gone to the Republican candidate.

Add in the fact that the DemocRAT base turned out in greater percentages than the Republican base in most of the races, it spelled the disasterous result we saw last night.

[Darkwolf377]

Watch the vocal Libs suddenly become very, very quiet on this site.

[Captain Kirk]

CATO and the Libertarians are here to stay. Get used to it or pack it in. No amount of handwringing will change those facts.

[Matchett-PI]

You said it. bttt

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Watch the vocal Libs suddenly become very, very quiet on this site.

Oh, if only.

[MHGinTN]

Neal Boortz must be smugly proud today that his call to spank the pubbies has been accomplished. One can only hope Neal is not in the area of the coming al qaeda slaughter. He needs the chance to apologize to those dolts he's manipulated and renounce his suicide urges.

[My2Cents]

Yes, but it would be helpful if they learned to compromise and didn't act so snippy when things don't go 100% their way.

[Dead Corpse]

If you want conservative votes, be conservative. I didn't vote for a single Democrat last night. All of my votes went to conservatives, but not all went to Republicans.

I won't vote for a RINO. My vote has to be earned by the candidate NOT being a liberal. That isn't too much to ask.

[Dead Corpse]

Suicide urges like leaving our Borders open while pandering to teh illegal alien lobby?

[Captain Kirk]

Yes, but it would be helpful if they learned to compromise and didn't act so snippy when things don't go 100% their way.

We disagree....but, of course, they won't so the issue is purely academic and no amount of complaining by the GOP will change that.

[Just another Joe]

CATO and the Libertarians are here to stay. Get used to it or pack it in. No amount of handwringing will change those facts.

bump

[jla]

f you want conservative votes, be conservative. I didn't vote for a single Democrat last night. All of my votes went to conservatives, but not all went to Republicans... I won't vote for a RINO. My vote has to be earned by the candidate NOT being a liberal. That isn't too much to ask.

How dare you think independently from the herd.

[MNJohnnie]

Yep. All over the place the margin of victory is smaller then the Libertarian canidates share of the vote.

[Matchett-PI]

Don't change the subject.

[My2Cents]

Libertarians have a genetic inability to see the big picture.

[Dead Corpse]

How dare you think independently from the herd.

Sorry. Bad habit. Comes from actually using the grey matter holding my ears apart.

[ClaireSolt]

I think there was a significant Libertarian vote in the Cantwell race.

[Sloth]

Nonsense, I'm getting tired of this unwarranted finger-pointing. Neither the religious right nor the libertarians were to blame for what happened yesterday. The blame should go to the politicians themselves, for failing to articulate anything to attract independents.

[PjhCPA]

CATO and the Libertarians are here to stay.

God I hope so. Isn't that what FreeRepublic is all about?

[dirtboy]

(Blame CATO/Libertarians for this election result)

Yep, it was the Libertarians who were in bed with Jack Abramoff. It was the Libertarians who funnelled lobbying business to their daughter. It was the Libertarians who stuffed record numbers of earmarks into spending bills while borrowing money to finance the war in Iraq.

It would behoove the GOP to learn a lesson or two from the Libertarians when it comes to fiscal restraint. Might just get the GOP back closer to its roots.