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]

The primary races are for choosing the conservative candidates. Not enough votes to do it? Too bad - gotta go with the one the voters chose, and hope you can get a conservative nominated in the next primary. There are only two viable political parties.

[AmishDude]

It's a vote, it's a participation in the distribution of sovereign power.

If you want to exercise moral rectitude, go to church.

[zbigreddogz]

I agree that the L candidate lost us Montana, but CATO isn't the same thing as the libertarian party.

[Teacher317]

Libertarians have a genetic inability to see the big picture.

How ironic that you can't see that the GOP's failure to adhere to its small-government principles is what led to the Libertarian Party's very existence, and hence to the GOP's defeat last night.

Or is that not part of the "Big Picture"?

[AmishDude]

Too small and too unreliable. As I said, the Libertarians will split with a coalition on the flavor of the bagels at the mid-morning break. (In fact, knowing some Libertarians, having bagels at all would be too neo-con for them.)

[Dead Corpse]

It's a vote, it's a participation in the distribution of sovereign power.

It's an authorization for the use of force. You just authorized yourself to assault me.

Don't go there. Seriously. There are some Rights no majority was ever to deprive us of.

[FreedomProtector]

bookmarking

[Dead Corpse]

Spending on domestic concerns, adding Departments, amount of pork added to the budget without so much as a twitch of the Veto pen, ect...

If you want charts, I can get them for you.

[murdoog]

I'm like you. As far as our liberties are concerned, the GOP is very bad and the Democrats are much much worse. I'm not willing to let the much worse party get elected.

[AmishDude]

Sorry, neither the R nor the D party expects very much at all. It's a coalition.

Tell you what, want to run for office as an R? Go to the local board of elections and run for your local statehouse office as a Republican. It's not hard, and nobody will stop you.

Party identification is not a barrier, it's a way that the candidates let the people know on which side of the fence they (generally) stand. It says that you'd rather stand with Pelosi than with Hastert.

I am always amazed at the wholesale ignorance that Libertarians have for how politics works.

It's the L party that's a rigid, top-down, toe-the-line organization.

[kevao]

Too small and too unreliable.

IOW, they're too small to make a difference AND are responsible for handing yesterday's election to the Democrats?

[pjd]

Conservatives resist cultural change and personal liberation

That's just plain wrong. Conservative means conservative powers for government, liberal powers for citizens. Liberal means liberal powers for government conservative power for citizens.

Conservatives resist government liberation.

[AmishDude]

It's an authorization for the use of force. You just authorized yourself to assault me.

Do you want to explain this? I'm sorry. I don't speak crazy.

[Dead Corpse]

I don't speak crazy.

No. You don't have a clue in general so anyone speaking sense seems "crazy" to you.

[AmishDude]

They're too small and unreliable to help you win. It's like holding slime, they'll slip away no matter what you do. Better to go after the mushy middle than the couple of Libertarians.

But I never claimed that the L's lost the Montana race. Maybe they did, but what it would have taken to bring them on board would have either reduced Burns' total to 10% or not been sufficient for their unappeasability.

[AmishDude]

You don't have a clue in general so anyone speaking sense seems "crazy" to you.

I see you can't translate crazy either. Fair enough.

[DesScorp]

I don't care who posted it. A "libertarian republican" is like a "social democrat"....only the first word really applies when describing them. "Libertarian Republicans" are a cancer on the party. And you can either let cancer consume you, or you can cut it out.

[Dead Corpse]

When you understand what the Constitution is and does, come back and try and have a cogent discussion. Until then, it'd be like me trying to explain particle physics to a 3 year old.

[Blackirish]

Yep the big government social right has done a great job of running things,...now they should take your advise and

"I recommend that we Republicans cease and desist courting the loosertarian'

Did you see the results of last nites election or just wake up from a 20 hour nap?

[jjm2111]

not around here, they didn't.