The Club For Growth material is 100% true, therefore it’s worth including in any evaluation of Biden’s record.

But I wouldn’t say I’m giving up, either (after all, I am still a Barr supporter)- I’m not asking that anyone ignore their flaws in these areas.

Instead, I’m more pointing out that as bad as Obama/Biden may seem on economic issues, the fact is that they’re looking to replace possibly the most anti-liberty administration in history, or at least since FDR. And that administration is a Republican administration. In essence, I am challenging the somewhat long-held assumption that the Republican Party is, in the long run, less offensive to libertarian instincts than the Dem Party. They both have plenty of bad points, and the most ideological groups in each party even have some good points (though too often the parties themselves refuse to advance policy on these good points), but neither party is inherently better or less bad for liberty than the other party. My suspicion is that, for at least the short-term and possibly the intermediate term, the Dem Party will be marginally less bad for liberty than the Republican Party and its increasing bellicosity. As I’ve said elsewhere, I also think, at this point, that libertarians have much more in common with ideological liberals (as opposed to mainstream Democrats) than with modern ideological conservatives.

I’d rather someone who is going to waste a boatload of money on ill-conceived entitlements here at home than someone who is going to waste an equal boatload of money on ill-conceived invasions of foreign countries that make the unintended consequences of entitlement spending look mild by comparison.

That basically strikes me as giving up.

I can’t support McCain for reasons I’ve made clear, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to ignore the fact that Obama/Biden are wrong on most economic issues, wrong on international trade, and, in some cases, just plain wrong.

All of which is to say that I’d rather someone who is going to waste a boatload of money on ill-conceived entitlements here at home than someone who is going to waste an equal boatload of money on ill-conceived invasions of foreign countries that make the unintended consequences of entitlement spending look mild by comparison.

Of course, I’d far prefer a certain third party candidate to either. But as long as the Republican nominee insists on hemoragging money at a rate equal to or greater than the Dem nominee, I don’t see a lick of difference between the two on most economic issues (the one exception being that McCain’s health care proposal is definitely preferable to Obama’s, which was itself preferable to most Dem proposals).