We consider ourselves junior, junior historians of the modern American conservative movement so these little internecine squabbles make us warm and fuzzy all over.
Check out this post from Patrick Ruffini at Hugh Hewitt’s blog site regarding Ron Paul and the current status of libertarians with regard to the Republican Party. If the post is to be believed, then Ron Paul’s campaign, though itself being unlikely in winning the party nomination, has had a good deal of success in bringing libertarians back under the big tent of the Republican Party.
We think this is good news… you know, the more the merrier but we’ll believe it when we see it.
We’ve always had a soft-spot for libertarianism (Our stances against school prayer, the Flag burning amendment and most English-only laws always got us the cold shoulder at the Social Conservative cookouts so we usually just hung out and did shots and listened to the Vandals down in the basement with the South Park Conservatives who didn’t feel too welcome out on the back patio, either), its their acolytes that have tended to rub us the wrong way over the years.
The “Don’t blame me, I voted Libertarian” bumper stickers we would see from time to time were emblematic of their sanctimonious and self-righteous behavior. Yeah, we get it. Its beneath you to sacrifice your ideals to vote Republican but the third party thing isn’t working…. Why bother voting at all? Please drop the lone wolf routine and engage the debate and thus affect change from within the confines of a legit political entity.
Anyway, post says there is enough common ground for the libertarians and the conservative base in the Party to at least hold hands. That’s something we’ve believed all along and dog-gone, Frank Meyer says so also!
We think this is good news… you know, the more the merrier but we’ll believe it when we see it.
We’ve always had a soft-spot for libertarianism (Our stances against school prayer, the Flag burning amendment and most English-only laws always got us the cold shoulder at the Social Conservative cookouts so we usually just hung out and did shots and listened to the Vandals down in the basement with the South Park Conservatives who didn’t feel too welcome out on the back patio, either), its their acolytes that have tended to rub us the wrong way over the years.
The “Don’t blame me, I voted Libertarian” bumper stickers we would see from time to time were emblematic of their sanctimonious and self-righteous behavior. Yeah, we get it. Its beneath you to sacrifice your ideals to vote Republican but the third party thing isn’t working…. Why bother voting at all? Please drop the lone wolf routine and engage the debate and thus affect change from within the confines of a legit political entity.
Anyway, post says there is enough common ground for the libertarians and the conservative base in the Party to at least hold hands. That’s something we’ve believed all along and dog-gone, Frank Meyer says so also!
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1 comment:
Dean,
I actually have cast a Presidential vote for Ron Paul when he was the Libertarian candidate in 1988, but I agree that anything that gets the Libertarian Party to disband at this point would be good. They have shown such an utter lack of seriousness that they have become a sideshow. As Mrs. Daddy told me, it is time to grow up and become a Republican. However, I have been registered Libertarian since I was eighteen, so I keep putting off the change of registration thing; too emotional.
I also agree with Patrick Ruffini that I cannot and will not support Ron Paul as long as he is blaming America for 9/11 and calling the war in Iraq illegal. (A quick aside, if you please. The war in Iraq was legal, even if we didn't think there were any WMD. This is because it was the Iraqi government's obligation under treaty to comply with requests for inspection. They did not comply. Our invasion merely enforced our right of inspection. One can argue the wisdom of going to war for such a reason, but it is clearly legal.)
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