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mrstickball said:
Machina said:
badgenome said:
mrstickball said:

For Republicans? There is almost no base of economic/social liberals.

Think he means economic liberals as in free marketeers, not leftists.


Yeah I do.

Ah, yes. You do. Ron Paul (Congressman, TX), his son Rand Paul (Senator, KY), Gary Johnson (former Governor, New Mexico). There are probably a few more, but those are the names I know that get out.

Additionally, you have the Tea Party which is an economically liberal platform that is, for the most part, socially agnostic. I worry many are co-opted by socially conservatives, but in general, they've stuck with just the economy, and there are a lot of people involved in that - about ~50 congressmen and senators from the Republican party. They were essentially the ones refusing to vote on Bohner's debt deal, and were the ones that passed the 'Cap, Cut & Balance' act in Congress.

Yeah... could of been more socially agnostic had not the right and left both bltized them with fake racism charges.

They were supporting a lot of democrats early going and there was plenty of room for Libretarian and Clinton style democrats to jump on.