Posted on 10/02/2009 1:12:54 PM PDT by presidio9
That was 13 minutes ago. Better set a new deadline. Remember: 5% of the vote!
As Jim has another FReepathon underway... and as I always do, I call on him to make a public statement either for or against FR Libertarians and what they post here on his website.
If he would only post a definitive statement either way, I would send $100 to the Freepathon.
He never does, and so I never do.
I suspect Jim cannot afford to pi$$ off the Libs who contribute here.
So nothing is ever officially said.
That was 13 minutes ago. Better set a new deadline. Remember: 5% of the vote!
Noble ideals, but you've still grouped yourself in with a confused lot with collectively limited intelligence.
Noble ideals, but you've still grouped yourself in with a confused lot with collectively limited intelligence.
Honestly, I haven’t, most of the time. Since this is realistically a 2 party system, I have voted Republican most of the time. I tried going with Perot, and we got Clinton because of it. I voted for Bush, twice. I saw no hope of beating Obama in Kentucky, so I voted Libertarian in the last election. In 2010, and in 2012, I’ll probably vote Republican again, in the hope that people will be so sick of O by then, that they’ll vote the other way. I have my personal wishes and ideals, but I’m a realist.
That statement is quite true. The size of government GREW under Reagan...& don't blame the Dim Congress that The Gipper had to deal w/, 'cuz (& to answer your question, GeronL), Reagan had the constitutional authority to veto bills by Congress but DIDN'T for the most part. The simple fact that he signed those bills into law proves he was no friend to the Constitution or limited government.
I'll double that, if he also says something about anti-catholic bigotry on this website, and gives us a more detailed accounting of where these "donations" are going. I can name 20 people who would get in line right behind me.
4:20 is like beer-thirty for dopers
When are so-called "conservatives" going to get serious about electing candidates who are sincere about cutting the size of government...& stop insulting the few Members of Congress who are working night & day to do just that?
Aren’t any of y’all capable of distinguishing between libertarianism and the Libertarian party?
“Libertarian Party throws Reagan under the bus.”
That’s just not possible.
President Ronald Reagan was too great of man to be thrown under ANY bus.
That was true then, it is true now and it will forever be true.
I forgot to add that my experience has told me that the typical incentive for a person becoming a libertarian is that his or her own life would be less complicated if marijuana was legalized. The rest of the window dressing is there only to lend credibility to the argument. Sure, there are some confused idealists out there and here on FR. But when 99% of the libertarians I’ve come across (and it numbers in the thousands at this point) are honest, it started with pot, and it went from there. Nice legacy.
Hey, I’m half libertarian. The half the doesn’t go along with liberalism.
Thanks for saying what may others think.
How is it that Libertarians who post on FR call it boogie man thinking to be concerned abut Ahmadinejad and his nuclear weapons, that Israel is the problem, that Obama is better than an 80% conservative.
Their talking points can be seen at DU, KOS and FR
“Thrown under the bus.” Is a sports term. I roughly translates to “stabbed him in the back.” But the essential thing is that it can only be done to a member of your own team, one who rides the bus with you.
Ronald Reagan was many things in his life, but the only one we put on a pedastel was the President. As president, he actively opposed liberatarian ideas and ideals. In other words, he was never on their “team,” so they can’t throw him under the bus.
The LIBERALtarian Party will never amount to anything.
No one is going to vote for a party that is open borders, pro-illegal alien, weak on national security, and so ate-up on Free Trade that they praise Chairman Mao over George Washington.
Blaming Reagan for Big Government can be added now to that list. Great work, LIBS
We will drink no wine before it’s time....it’s time!
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