Posted on 03/17/2013 5:30:34 PM PDT by drewh
Edited on 03/17/2013 5:36:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Ayn Rand - Jewish
Robert Nozick - Jewish
Murray Rothbard - Jewish
Ludwig von Mises - Jewish
Milton Friedman - Jewish
Not only are there Jewish intellectual leaders among libertarians, they kept the philosophy active when it was far less popular than now.
Young people understand Wall Street capitalism is BS, and big gov Dems is BS. Rand Paul represents the third way. Small gov, liberty and suspicious eye on the evil schemers of Wall Street. America has more problems internally that needs to be solved and the bankrupt mentality of empire America must be put away and never to be pursued again. God gave us two big oceans, plenty of resources, freedom and innovation. Use it, stay home and we will prosper. Our enemies have too many neighbors to deal with before their armies can cross two oceans to occupy us.
The problem with "libertarian" is one might think it does not value the Constitution. But the Constitution is an anti-government document, creating a strictly limited government - "individual freedom" is what the Constitution is all about. The Constitution was created to protect freedom by instituting an expressed and intended limited federal government. If I had to qualify my being a libertarian, I would call myself a Constitutional libertarian.
Not as nuts as the follows of the current (p)resident.
“If I had to qualify my being a libertarian, I would call myself a Constitutional libertarian.”
That is more-or-less what I believe. Barry Goldwater used to say “If the Constitution doesn’t explicitly state that Congress can do X, then we don’t do it. Case closed.”
It is a pity that those of us on FR who do believe in limited government and following the Constitution are turned into monsters with horns who want legalized drugs and random sex in public.
He has SOME Conservative issues in his corner, but the far-out-in-left-field of his Father permeates his positions.
I'm with you....wacko fringe ala Ross Perot on a LOT of issues.
” Rand Paul is the best out there right now. His dad gets fruity on some issues, but Rand fits the bill. He’s leading the party right now away from the complete disaster than the DC elite are going.”
True enough.
I don’t have to like everything he stands for to be glad that he’s standing for something.
The GOP elite is all too happy to make a big show of opposing Obama and then rolling over. I’m glad we have at least one Senator who won’t play that game.
Yeah; ANYONE who is for free drug use and sex deviancy promotion is a vote-getter to young people.
ANYONE who wants to reign in the out-of-control societal stench of immorality is a no-go.
As long as drug legalization is supported, they'd vote for Lucifer himself.
Rand already has basically in hand a winning coalition of conservatives and honest liberals that are absolutely won over with his “simple and creative” policies on fiscal issues and civil liberties. What he needs to do to win is basically to stay as far away as possible from ideologically pure declarations about non-issues when he is clueless and tongue-tied about the real-world effects of implementing such proposals.
“Rand already has basically in hand a winning coalition of conservatives and honest liberals that are absolutely won over with his “simple and creative” policies on fiscal issues and civil liberties. What he needs to do to win is basically to stay as far away as possible from ideologically pure declarations about non-issues when he is clueless and tongue-tied about the real-world effects of implementing such proposals.”
I agree; he needs to work on some things. Sometimes you must sacrifice ideology to practical reality.
And incidentally, I’m starting to suspect that some of the people in here like this guy traditional1 are actually DNC moles posting here to make conservatives look stupid.
So?
You want them to vote for O2 next time?
Sorry I took these out of sequence to your listing. Some I was not sure about. Not a single practicing Jew in the bunch. Jewish by birth and family, but not by religion.
http://solohq.org/Articles/Parille/Ayn_Rand,_Objectivism,_and_Religion_(Part_1_of_4).shtml
“Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905 to secular Jewish parents.”
“Ayn Rand is noteworthy for her atheism and uncompromising opposition to religion.”
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http://www.cwporter.com/pert1.htm
“Murray Rothbard, Mises’ student, was born in the Bronx in 1926, to immigrants from the Jewish leftist sub-culture of Poland. “I grew up in a Communist culture,” he recalled.”
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http://www.myspace.com/rnozick
Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002)
“He was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from Russia. He was married to the American poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg.”
Religion: Atheist
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance23.html
Ludwig von Mises
“Although one of his grandfathers had been a rabbi, Mises was not a synagogue attendee. He was an agnostic”
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An Exchange: My Correspondence With Milton Friedman About God, Economics, Evolution And “Values”
http://archive.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=736
Do you believe in God? And what, if anything, does God have to do with economics? He replied, in a handwritten note on my original letter:
“I am an agnostic. I do not ‘believe in’ God, but I am not an atheist, because I believe the statement, ‘There is a god’ does not admit of being either confirmed or rejected. I do not believe God has anything to do with economics. But values do.”
Can I assume you are against a TOTAL war on drugs as well?
Where would YOU draw the line?
Gotta agree here.
We'd rather be Praised into Hell;
than Rebuked into Heaven.
No. We most definitely should not legalize drugs.
Ron Paul wasn’t even involved this year and their shooting at him? LOL! (And I don’t even like RuPaul)
That said, I will NEVER vote for a RINO, or Whack-o, regardless of the Party they supposedly represent.
ANYONE who decides it's okay to ignore Criminal Acts, to pander for their votes, is no better than the garbage we have in Congress and the White Hut right now.
YOU are spot-on.
Well, a religious Jew, almost by definition, could not be a libertarian!
No one I’ve ever met, in their personal life, meets someone identified as a Jew and doesn’t consider them a Jew unless they ‘practice’. Karl Marx, born, raised and probably died a Lutheran, is ubiquitously identified as a Jew.
There are many atheist and agnostic Jews around who take offense when someone says they are not a ‘real Jew’.
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