Instead, attempts will be made to smear the author, and change the subject - liberal tactics to be sure - and by doing so just reinforce Browne's point.
I was right there with Harry up until he started in with the Clinton part. X42 may not have grown the government as much as others, but what he did do was even more irrepairable. Brady. Lewinsky. China.
Republicans no longer have an excuse. If they go back on their promises to reduce the size and scope of government, then they will have been shown to be the liars we suspect they are.
They have two years to make at least SOME meaningful changes, and the clock is ticking.
A little hard to when he cites no empircal evidence of his allegations, which are all phrased in a "When did you stop beating your wife and dog" sort of double-speak.
Browne lost my respect when he began to write more and more of these types of articles, which do nothing to truly articulate the percieved problem, and offer nothing in return. Some of his claims have gone further and further off the deep end in the process.
Add to that the constant foolishness of some LP candidates/representatives (i.e., Mr. Smurf in Montana, and the Spitting Candidate in California), and the LP's credibility begins to sink to near the level of Lyndon LaRouche and his ilk.
While I have no problem supporting some of the issues of true libertarianism (little "l"), the LP is nothing more than a laughing stock as far as I am concerned. And as such, attacks posing as position papers like this one do not serve much more than to reenforce the increasing fringe perception that the LP has earned of late.