I was wondering because I think it has the makings of an up and coming third party a la the successful Whigs and the Bull Moose. A Republican myself, I think that we should have not let you guys slip from us-we both like small gov't, family values, etc. I hope that the L's would come back into the GOP fray one day.
I've been a registered Libertarian for a long time.
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where do they stand on majour policies?
Rocket: how would u respond to my other sentences/hopes?
| PS360ForTheWin said: where do they stand on majour policies? |
http://www.lp.org/issues/current-issues
Well, I know you addressed the USA. But I'll answer, going by their slogan, I disagree with smaller government and lower taxes, however I agree on the more freedoms.
| halogamer1989 said: Rocket: how would u respond to my other sentences/hopes? |
When the Republicans ditch the Religious Right, stop spending money like Democrats, and actually start preserving personal freedoms instead of taking them away (abortion, the Patriot Act, censorship, etc.), I have the feeling the Libertarian Party will cease to exist as people go back to being a traditional Republican.
Until then, no dice. The GOP can go fuck themselves.
Or check out my new webcomic: http://selfcentent.com/
Libertarians are MILES better than Republicans, but I would have to see some of my problems with the Libertarian platform ironed before I would ever consider myself one.
I am a proponent of socialized health care for instance. We are the only one of the top 25 industrialized nations without a universal health care system, and we are also in the bottom half of those 25 nations in terms of the quality of health care we provide to our citizens.
But I will concede that we are probably too stingy of a country to adequately fund public health care. Overall costs would be lower though, as we would eliminate the bureaucracy that is health insurance.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92136549#share
We spend a higher percentage of our GDP on health care than almost any country (and it is only going to get higher...), yet our health care ranks as relatively poor proportional to our country's wealth.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
rocketpig said:
When the Republicans ditch the Religious Right, stop spending money like Democrats, and actually start preserving personal freedoms instead of taking them away (abortion, the Patriot Act, censorship, etc.), I have the feeling the Libertarian Party will cease to exist as people go back to being a traditional Republican. Until then, no dice. The GOP can go fuck themselves.
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I have a feeling that many of the members of the GOP that you hate are RINOs. Is this correct? What part of the censorship are you refering to btw?
Anyone who thinks McCain is a libertarian is sadly mistaken. He's too supportive of the religious right, the biggest leech on our country. He is closer to a libertarian than most Republicans though, which is a good thing.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
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