Libertarian Votes GOP For the First Time
Monday, November 3, 2008 at 07:35PM Now here is a well written and thought out article by Vin Suprynowicz that pretty much drives home why I, a self avowed McCain hating GOPer is going to punch the screen for.... Palin tomorrow. Take it away Vin:
I'm viscerally angry at the way the shrill and vicious Democrat redistributionists and their puppets in the press have savaged Sarah Palin, a woman about whom they'd be making TV movies-of-the-week if her politics leaned "correctly" to the left.
and I love the way he goes on the crush Hussein's inexperience:
Oh, please. Though bright and talented, John Kennedy was underqualified for the presidency in 1960. He did so miserably against Khrushchev at their meetings in Vienna that the Russian premier was emboldened to test the obviously inexperienced young president with what became the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Yet John Kennedy was a seasoned pro by Barack Obama standards. Kennedy had been in combat, performing heroically after his boat went down. Kennedy served 14 years in the House and Senate (Barack Obama has yet to serve four) and ran on a pledge to cut taxes -- which he actually did! Next to the experience of John F. Kennedy -- whose inexperience rendered him a not terribly effective president -- Obama is a mere short-pants schoolchild.
That's the real issue here.... maybe folks who only give a rip about the dream of government handouts, and how everything will be free for them can sleep at night, but I am not that way. I grew up reading history and wary of our National Security. Tell ya what, the last eight years I haven't worried with George W. Bush at the helm.... The worrying was left to our enemies... North Korea, Libya, Iraq, Iran, etc.
As our first President George Washington said:
The best way to secure the peace is to be prepared to fight (a war).
I respect this libertarian for not throwing his vote away, in what is going to be a tight race, some other should get the hint, and quit their whining and bellyaching.
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Reader Comments (13)
Let the GOP nominate a candidate who actually believes in individual liberty and free markets, and I'll vote for them.
John McCain is not that man.
And Sarah Palin is not qualified for the job she's running for.
More importantly, the Republican Party stands likely to get it's collective ass kicked tomorrow, and they've got nobody to blame for it but themselves. Eight years in the White House, six of which included control of Congress, and there's absolutely nothing to show for it except for a Federal Government that grew at a rate faster than it did when LBJ was President.
If that's what the GOP has to offer, then I'm not buying.
Bob Barr is the one!
Please vote for Bob Barr.
Only Bob Barr is conservative enough and moral enough to save our country.
I'm voting for Bob Barr.
Rhain,
So am I, and so should anyone who believes in free markets and individual liberty.
Me too... John McCain simply doesn't deserve my vote. Bob Barr does.
Glad to know you where you stand.....
Sarah Palin is a true Conservative, period. Sad to watch the bunch of you parrot the Liberal Main Stream Media attacks.....
You of so great intelect. Can't you think of something a tad bit more entertaining to babble in your reasoning?
Maybe you're right that Sarah Palin is a conservative.
I'm a libertarian, so that's not a good enough reason for me to vote for her.
Besides, her ideology is irrelevant. Her importance to me is that she is evidence of John McCain's appallingly bad decision making.
She's bringing out the Conservative base, something that apparently galls the living crap out of you.... doesn't it?
I'm starting to think that you are from the Ayn Rand wing of the Libertarian Party. Might that be the case?
Well, the Republican Party doesn't win elections if all it does is "bring out the conservative base," so I'm not sure what value she's actually been to the ticket.
And, oh yeah, I like to consider myself as being from the Barry Goldwater wing of the Republican Party.
You remember Barry ? He's the guy who said he'd like to give Jerry Falwell a good swift kick in the ass over his opposition to Sandra Day O'Connor's nomination to the Supreme Court.
Of course, the "conservative base" such as it is today wouldn't much like Barry these days considering his position on issues like gay rights.
Whatever, there's another 'Barry' who is seeking to take us, with a Democrat majority in Congress into government run health care, probably going to cut our military budget, and begin doing Carteresque type things like giving away the Panama Canal.
He'll wreck the economy by raising taxes, and turn our nation into something resembling France....
And John McCain will do......what ?
Do you honestly believe he'd be able to get even 1/2 his campaign promises through a Democratic Congress ?
No, he wouldn't
Instead, he'd "reach across the aisle" and join Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in screwing us over.
More importantly, if McCain wins the chances of the GOP recovering from the intellectual stupor it has been in since about 1998 are pretty much non-existent.
I don't disagree with you Doug, but remember when 'W' tried to drag whats her name into the supreme court pick, and Conservatives pressured her out?
With Hussein in there, what chance do we have accomplishing at least that?
The Harriet Meirs debacle happened when the GOP had control of the Senate. That would not be the case with McCain.
of course not Doug... because Hussein's first pick for the Supreme Court will be Hillary to get her out of the way...
Your vote today helped enable that.... Good Job Buddy!