Comments on: Mike Huckabee’s War Against Libertarian Republicans

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:58:17 +0000

You know, a friend of mine had the greatest bumper sticker ever on this topic:

“Jesus, please protect me from your followers.”

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:12:34 +0000

I hate to say it, but that’s pretty much the strategy of the entire Republican Party these days. Go beyond free-market policies to actual “crony capitalism” policies, focus on “values” issues, etc. I’m actually thankful that one of them is finally willing to acknowledge something which I think has become increasingly clear for years: libertarians have no place in the Republican Party any more.

At least not unless we’re willing to accept torture, deficit spending, the WO(s)D, coercive foreign policy and empire-building, abeyance to puritanical social policy, and almost unlimited executive power.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:35:35 +0000

I thought Huckabee’s policy when it came to taxes was to raise them?

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:52:16 +0000

If by “new majority party” he’s referring to the Dems, then he’s right. The chirpy Jesus freaks (by which I mean the people who think freedom of religion means they have a right to force their religion on others) are a hell of a lot fewer than their idiot leaders think they are. That particular GOP schism happened here in Kansas (moderates vs. religious right) and it’s led to the libertarians and moderates jumping from the Republicans to the Dems. That’s why our last election gave us a Democratic governor, a Democratic AG, and a couple of new Democratic congressmen in a state that’s been solidly Republican since well before I was born.

Even the tax breaks won’t save the Republicans if Huckabee gets his way because, when it comes down to it, religious fanatics generally aren’t capable of governing competently and most people don’t want to live in a theocracy.