November 08, 2006

Good News for Libertarian Republicans (UPDATED)

UPDATE: Bad news about Libertarians: they may have cost the Republicans the elections.

Good news about the two-party system: when one of the major parties feels threatened by a third party, they may begin the process of co-optation. This means they take the most popular ideas of the insurgent third party and make it their own.

Could the Republicans take the best ideas from the Libertarians and make them their own? I hope so. I'd start with the legalization of whorehouses, but that's just me.
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Libertarian candidate comes in second in Indiana Senate race. It's a start. Maybe I'll move to Indiana.

I've long advocated a two party system. I just wish those two parties were the Republicans and Libertarians. Only then could I finally find myself in the center.

Hey, even I want to believe I'm a moderate.

R-Lugar 1,149,186 87%
L-Osborn 168,921 13%

Posted by: Rusty at 10:51 AM | Comments (24) | Add Comment
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1 Libertarian Republicans?
That's a new one on me.

Posted by: Greg at November 08, 2006 11:57 AM (v7DMp)

2 >Libertarian Republicans?

>That's a new one on me.

Shouldn't be.
Do small government, personal responsibility, property rights etc ring a bell?
Conservative Republicans really should be Libertarians.
(Maybe they could help rid the party of the freakish crypto-Greens who are only interested in legal dope.)

Posted by: BC at November 08, 2006 12:19 PM (/UAJE)

3 A good start for libertarians was the American Revolution...too bad
this country has since been divided between socialists and fascists...

Posted by: Roy at November 08, 2006 12:20 PM (9WAJi)

4 Furthermore, if you really care about the 1st, 2nd, or 4th amendments, you should be  Libertarian.


Posted by: BC at November 08, 2006 12:24 PM (/UAJE)

5 I am a Libertarian. Please don't lump good Libertarians in with the Republicans.

Posted by: Greg at November 08, 2006 12:54 PM (v7DMp)

6 Ok, I'll ask again. Can someone please explain to me how the Military Commissions Act is less government? While we're at it, can someone tell me how anit-gay marriage legislation amounts to less government? Can someone tell me how a war of choice is less government? Is No Child Left Behind less government too?
 
Is there anything about the current Republican regime that is about less government?
 
 

Posted by: Professor von Nostrand at November 08, 2006 01:10 PM (Bwpq7)

7 hogwash

Posted by: Greyrooster at November 08, 2006 01:10 PM (dk0ga)

8 Rumsfeld has resigned. Some ex CIA chief will take over. The democrats winning pretty much convinced. And Dennis Haystert has been booted out. Now who knows whether Karl Rove will quit.
 
 
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061108/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rumsfeld_resigns

Posted by: George Ramos at November 08, 2006 01:14 PM (wkRws)

9 I mean convinced him.

Posted by: George Ramos at November 08, 2006 01:14 PM (wkRws)

10 Republicans are obviously Not for less government...

Posted by: Roy at November 08, 2006 01:19 PM (9WAJi)

11 too bad
this country has since been divided between socialists and fascists

What a fucking retard. You show you don't know shit about fascism. If
all you idiots that have been saying we are a fascist, totalitarian
theocracy were correct there would be no real elections and the Repubs
in power would stay in power forever. Are you really this dense.

FYI-The creator of fascism, Mussolini, had nationalized around 80% of
Italy's industry by the end of the war. That is socialistic.



Greg-Libertarians lean both left and right. Some, like me, are little l libertarians, while some are more party Libertarians.

Posted by: Randman at November 08, 2006 01:35 PM (Sal3J)

12 This government is not Fascist, but the Rep. Party is.  It is the
constitution that allows us to have elections and elect different
people. Bush is a fascist, though he can't do everything he wants
because of the way our country is set up.  The Patriot Act is a
fascist act of gov't, as is the stealing of private property by the
gov't to sell to other private interests. 

Posted by: Roy at November 08, 2006 01:49 PM (9WAJi)

13 Maybe they are just little f Fascists.

Posted by: Roy at November 08, 2006 01:51 PM (9WAJi)

14  Yeah...I thought you couldn't come up with an answer Roy.

Posted by: Randman at November 08, 2006 01:53 PM (Sal3J)

15 I dont recall a question actually...

Posted by: Roy at November 08, 2006 01:53 PM (9WAJi)

16 I lived in Indiana most of my life. It's a good, conservative state.



Posted by: rightwingprof at November 08, 2006 02:16 PM (o7KrD)

17 Political parties should be outlawed. They are the source of all major corruption and gridlock in politics, American and foreign.

Republicans have only one redeeming quality: Not wanting to submit to islam.

Doctrinaire Libertarians like Roy are bat-shit insane.

Democrats are worthless in every regard.

Every politician should represent the people as a fucking individual. Any jackass who thinks otherwise is promoting the freak show we've had in place since day one.

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at November 08, 2006 02:44 PM (bLPT+)

18 Perfesser Von Nonsense:

Ok, I'll ask again. Can someone please explain to me how the Military Commissions Act is more government? While we're at it, can someone tell me how protecting Marriage from activists who want to co-opt it is less government? Can someone tell me how trying to contravene the Costitution and the power of Congress over the President is less government? Is allowing schools to operate independantly of the federal government less government too?   Is there anything about the current Democrat regime Congress that is about less government?

Real Republicans oppose big government. That's why they stayed home this election cycle, dildo.

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at November 08, 2006 02:53 PM (bLPT+)

19 I think Rusty is correct. I hate Dems a lot, Repubs a little, and actually like Libertarians.

Greg and I do not agree on much that I can see, but as was ponted out, Libertarians can lean to either side of the aisle. In Montana, most lean to the right, which is why they tend to steal votes from Rebublicans.

Bush seems to be the 'Anti-Republican' but a lot of the expenditures he has had to support have to do with the war, and Katrina. He did manage to resist tax increases, and the economy shows it. So far ...

USA all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at November 08, 2006 03:03 PM (2OHpj)

20 Guess what Minnesota just elected to the House?  It's starting already....

Posted by: TXCrawDaddy at November 08, 2006 03:19 PM (CPOWk)

21 I would describe myself as being part of a Libertarian arm of Republican party, but I'll never go along w/the legalization of drugs and that sort of thing.  Not quite Lib, but not quite all Rep.  Sadly, Lugar was probably unopposed by a Democrat because he has done their bidding on tv time and time again.  He pretty much is one of them.  Wish the Libertarian would have won that race.

Posted by: RepJ at November 08, 2006 03:47 PM (T3Wz2)

22 NO Dem in the race.  They couldn't find anyone to run against Lugar.  Had they, the Lib would have been third.

Posted by: SMT at November 09, 2006 11:03 AM (PCCn+)

23 Oh, and I should add:  Hoosiers are very unhappy with the Republican Governor, red and blue Hoosiers alike.  He has ignored public opinion and leased th4e toll road to a foreign corporation over what was clearly a large majority of citizens opposed.  He told people all over  the state he would support putting the whole state on the Central time Zone, with Daylight Savings time, and then let his idiot businessmen buddies in Indianapolis stay in the Eastern Time zone, and the result was even more fragmentation of time zones across the state.  He put another arrogant fool in charge at the BMV, and that guy aggravated citizens across the state by closing a majority of local license branches (costly, perhaps, inefficient perhaps, but very convenient for citizens, especially the elderly and the poor, who dont' have the means to travel long distances to a branch, and don't have computers to do their business).  Simultaneously he made a major changeover of software at the BMV, and virtually the entire system was down for weeks.  People were actually jailed here and in other states because they couldn't prove they were properly licensed, even though they were.   And to top it all off, that idiot announced that there would be NO mercy on late registration fees, even though the entire damn system was down and it was literally impossible for many to comply with the deadlines.  (At least the Governor overruled him on that one.)

So major anti-Republican backlash across this state is entirely the fault of Governor Mitch Daniels.  And don't think I am happy about it; I voted for the @$$hole.

Posted by: SMT at November 09, 2006 11:16 AM (PCCn+)

24 I always thought of myself as a Wig..

but then I realized I was a WINO, Wig In Name Only..

Dave

Posted by: The Other Dave at November 09, 2006 10:36 PM (59lCX)

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