[andyk]

When your platform is “Smoke Free Dope”, you naturally get the youth vote...

And there's the problem with the GOP. They have no concept of individual liberty.

[Responsibility2nd]

When your platform is “Smoke Free Dope”, you naturally get the youth vote...

And there's the problem with the GOP. They have no concept of individual liberty.

 

You think individual liberty grows and is enhanced by smoking free dope? How very libertarian of you.

[Finny]

Old Sarge imagines: When your platform is “Smoke Free Dope”, you naturally get the youth vote...

Is that the platform of the libertarian wing of the GOP? For the government -- meaning we the taxpayers -- to pay for pot given away to "the masses"? REALLY? Prove it. You won't, FRiend, because you can't, because it's a hysterical and false accusation.

The small-l libertarian, such as THOMAS SOWELL and Milton Friedman -- people who actually understood and grasped real libertarian principle, would know then that such "libertarians" were along the lines of people wearing roller skates claiming to be ice skating: totally PHONY.

TRUE libertarian principle would exclude the Federal government from either PROVIDING "free dope" or from throwing people in prison for smoking a friggin' weed that will grow wild in a vacant lot.

Big-L Libertarian, as in the official party, has apparently been seized by people who confuse "libertarian" with "liberal," as in "free for all." TRUE libertarians, understand, as did Ronald Reagan, that libertarian principle is the foundation of conservatism -- that is, if you define "conservatism" as "using government sparingly."

Sounds to me like you might be someone who defines "conservatism" as "using government liberally to enforce socially 'conservative' mores because Americans are like little children who need the government to serve as their shepherds."

There's nothing wrong with libertarian principle. There is A LOT WRONG with idiot ignorant pig-headed "conservatives" who 1) are obsessed with a plant (though have no problem with legal alcohol that's a critical factor in the death and injury of THOUSANDS every year) and 2) who want to use government as a Nanny every bit as much as Democrats do.

[old3030]

Amen, andyk. You have hit on the main reason I rarely bother to post on FR any more. I’m a conservative Christian, yet every time I support a libertarian principle or policy, I get accused of being a drunk, dope-smoking, homosexual child-molester.

I hate Democrat policies because they are big government. I hate Republican policies that support and encourage big government. How does being against unnecessary, intrusive government make me an anarchist?