| Mr Khan said: The libertarian wing is going to eviscerate itself due to the Tea Party in 2012, this i declare. There's too much anger there for the movement to work properly, and we're going to see a Republican convention similar to the Democrats in 68 (though not nearly as extreme), because you've got a moderate wing and an angry wing espousing violence and secessionism
The proper libertarians need to ditch the Republican party, let alone the tea party. If it is really time for their ideas to be heard, they shouldn't be drowned out by the single-issue screams from the Moral Majority and the militants. |
I dunno, reports by sources like Politico seem to indicate that the "anger" is really overstated by the media.
That's not really the issue.
The issue is the Republicans are kinda destroying it from the inside because after these groups started up, they created "The tea party express" and generally packaged a group of it's politicians to try and take advantage of the movement, despite the fact that it's not even all Republicans.
In general, the real problem is Sarah Palin... the actual individual founders are trying to distance themselves from people like Palin who are trying to "change" who they are... but it's not working because of Her and the other republicans "Star power". Libretarians don't have a Palin or a Glenn beck or whatever...
Just Ron Paul... who is all well and good, but he doesn't have broad appeal.
Well that and the fact that Democratic groups are organizing people to go into the Tea parties and pretend to be fringe lunatics.
The Tea Parties are really showing one thing... a third party really could upset the balance, and Republicans and Democrats are both scared shitless about it.
