Posted on 11/07/2013 4:59:55 AM PST by Kaslin
On the one hand they believe the libertarians owe their votes to republicrats like McRomney. Then the proceed to call libertarians every name in the book, insult libertarians, and prepare to blame us for the loss of the next McRomney, Krispy Creampuff.
Winning hearts and minds with insults won't work.
With people like you it is no wonder we are becoming the minority party. Come back when your party wins
I'm so glad you asked.
It also means and promoting baby-killers and the P/M child molesters (who want smaller government)
The moral decay in America is caused by childish narcissism. The size of government is only a symptom of the me me me-ness that saturates our culture.
We’ve become a nation of overaged boys and little girls.
I very much think a lot of us on the Right are going to remember this the next time they tell us “but you HAVE to vote GOP - do you want the Democrats to win ???”
Well, to quote Her Thighness:
“At this point, what difference does it make ??”
Yep, damned idiots. It’s brought MUCH shame on CATO (even tho this was not a CATO pac) - and on Crane himself. Inside the beltway, it will soil his legacy forever.
And what is this “socially intoleratn” bullshit? Cooch is not that. Never used his political office as such.
Also, being a social conservative does not preclude one from being a libertarian. I think they are the same philosophy - individual freedom and individual responsibility.
I hear you, but you have to admit: Some folks who call themselves libertarian are dumb as a box of rocks. Not all, of course, but some.
As the article says, many claim the label now that have no understanding of what it means to be libertarian. Neal Boortz did a lot to confuse people, claiming he was one, when he clearly was not consistently libertarian by any stretch.
His anti religious rants, his joining of the smoking nazi craze, and his pro regulation stances proved it over and over…..
I became disgusted with libertarians when I was active with the Young Americans for Freedom in the 1970’s. They were mostly interested in removing all restrictions on abortion, gambling, prostitution, pornography and especially narcotics, and they were always trying to get YAF to go on record in support of these causes. They would proclaim over and over that “we are NOT conservatives; We are libertarians,” yet they kept trying to take over YAF—they even tried to revise YAF’s founding document, the Sharon Statement, which defines the organization as conservative when it states, “we as young conservatives...” However, within YAF, they never amounted to more than a small but noisy minority.
One Who Knows
Bad Joe
Libertarians have a lot to offer and they have clarity on a lot of issues, but I share your disdain. In fact, I think the mentality is just another variety of immaturity that we see at the basis of many white liberals.
Consider the possibility that people are against your nanny state war on drugs, not to get high but because the war on drugs destroyed the 4th amendment, militarized the police and ultimately made cheaper, more potent and more readily available drugs by empowering huge criminal enterprises.
Win some more hearts and minds with insults. Lose some more elections by alienating 80% allies. Then feel good because your failed drug war well, makes you feel good.
Savris is not a libertarian. He was purposely implanted by the Obama machine so Cuccinelli would lose.
Boortz is a baby-killing packerphile. (by his own words)
69 months of driving the unclean from their temple and then 3 months of begging for their vote. And shock at the results.
same here. Take legalizing drugs out of the equation and they’re democrats masquerading.
One of the main reasons they are so stupid is the federal leviathan. That includes Head Start, the service economy forcing women into work, "special" ed, drugs for kids, waste and inefficiency from federal mandates cutting into actual education and the general elimination of family and local control.
Wrong.
The impulse behind the tea party is Constitutionalism, period. Any attempts to conflate the tea party to Libertarianism is only found in those of the Libertarian party to hang on for the ride. This latest debacle shows this especially when you listen to the Texas Libertarian group leader who sent $150K to McCauliff. At the end of every question answered by him came the expected issue of legalization of all drugs for whatever use; the idiot who believes in such is obviously on.
If he wants to wander around in la-la land, great, just lock himself up so he does not infringed on my rights of LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness because he is too stupid to realize his actions affect anyone around him in a willing capacity or not.
He said he was once a Republican but he never said in any way he was a Constitutionalist. He just found a convenient horse to ride to advance his agenda, to his ultimate detriment, along with the rest of us he is dragging into the morass.
Their issue was legalization of drugs, not smaller and extremely limited government, unless legalization of drugs is attached to it.
As for the GOP establishment, it is nothing more than shades of grey when considering Constitutionalism. We see all these hearings from them on all of the countless Obama scandals and even with obvious perjury committed daily in those high and might halls, nobody is being held accountable. The reason is the GOP just cannot wait until they might, for some unknown reason, think they will ever get control of the wheel again to use just as it was used against them.
I supported Rubio mightily but will not do so going forward. It is not that he lied to us about immigration, he lied to us from his heart, not a prepared written speech by some staffer. He didn’t have flunky staffers when he was campaigning before he won the primary, because of the tea party support.
A pox on all their houses. There are the exceptional few, but as long as Carl Rove and his acolytes control the GOP, nothing will change, except for the letter in parentheses next to the leaders names when making public recorded appearances.
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