Not just an orgy, an orgy with hookers. Dammit, don’t you ever forget the hookers again.

Nick

Mr. Dondero isn’t one of them there readin’ libertarians… He’s not interested in ideas.

Unless you can get Hayek to an orgy in a room full of pot smoke, I don’t think Eric’s going to pay any attention to him. And I don’t think it’s worth digging up Friedrich just to impress him.

Libertarians are like whinny little brats. They know that they’re basically “Republicans who like to smoke pot and have sex”, but they just can’t admit it to themselves. They know deep down that they’re part of the broader Conservative/Republican coalition.

So that’s what you think libertarians are ? Do you realize that you’re just buying into what conservatives and liberals say about us ?

Of course, if that’s what you consider libertarians to be, and you consider yourself a libertarian under that definition, then you and I clearly don’t share a philosophy in common.

I suggest that you pick up Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty and read an essay called “Why I am Not A Conservative.” It could be eyeopening.

If you’d bother to actually read anything I’ve written on this site, you’d know that I was critical of the whole idea of an alliance between libertarians and Democrats to begin with.

That said, the past six years have also shown me that the Republican Party is hardly a home for me either at the moment. Oh there are some bright spots here and there — John Shaddegg comes to mind, as does Ron Paul, and Jeff Flake — but they are a minority in their own party right now.

If by some miracle the GOP was to regain control of Congress in 2008, the leadership would largely consist of the same old group that led the party to ruin in 2006, especially in the Senate.The only saving grace is that Bush would not be President so maybe, just maybe, the Republicans in Congress wouldn’t be tainted by his ineffective leadership and lack of committment to the principles of limited government.

I’m with tkc. If I’m left with a choice in November 2008 between Hillary or Obama on one side and McCain or Giuliani on the other, I will either stay home or leave the Presidential part of the ballot blank.

So, no, I am not back in the Republican Party. And I may never come back except to vote for individual candidates I support. I see no reason to believe that furthering the growth of the GOP will in any way help the advance of human freedom.

With the leading candidates now, if there is no change before ’08 elections, I’ll be staying home… again.

The top four people I am not going to vote for are McCain, Guiliani, Clinton, and Obama.

Let’s go back to October, Nov. and Dec. of last year shall we.

Remember Daily Kos’s Mark Moulitas open appeal to Libertarians to join their “Democrat coalition?”

Remember Dave Boaz and the guys at Cato responding with the whole “Liberaltarian” thing?

Remember all the posts on boards like this from Libertarian Party people saying that perhaps our “natural allies were the Dems”?

Now all of a suddent, we’re in April of 2006, and you’re not seeing any of that any more. It’s all magically dissappeared.

Libertarians are like whinny little brats. They know that they’re basically “Republicans who like to smoke pot and have sex”, but they just can’t admit it to themselves. They know deep down that they’re part of the broader Conservative/Republican coalition.

But they gotta kick and scream about it. Thus, the whole “Liberaltarian” BS late last year.

It appears now Libertarians, even the Great Cynic Doug Mataconis, are now returning to the fold.

Don’t worry, we Libertarian Republicans aren’t going to make you say Uncle or apologize or anything.

We’re just glad to have you back.

Nick

Nick

That doesn’t mean I’m going to sit back and say nothing when the Democrats start returning to their old ways.

Let them start identifying which domestic spending programs they are willing to cut, and maybe I’ll start taking them seriously.

Truly amazing…