Sunday, April 20, 2008

FUCK THE GOP

Matt Welch from Reason magazine has an interesting article here on how the GOP has alienated libertarians and fiscal conservatives. The coalition that Reagan built is now over.

I liked this line from Welch:

. . .I wonder how responsible it is to add libertarian votes to a shrinking coalition whose dominant rhetoric and political standard-bearer stand in increasingly explicit opposition to the party’s libertarian strand.

The simple fact is here before us. The Republican Party stands in opposition to libertarianism. Giving support to the GOP is foolish. I like what Ron Paul did, but at the end of the day, a libertarian running as a Republican doesn't do much for libertarianism.

I am glad that Ron Paul stirred up the movement that he did, but it has nowhere to go. This is why I have decided to stop supporting the GOP completely and vote Libertarian. If Ron Paul supporters threw their support behind the LP candidate for President, it would be significant. We can't win, but it would be a big boost for the party.

The GOP is fucked. It is the party of big government. McCain will only extend this big government. The best I can hope for from McCain is significant tax cuts, but I can tell you we will remain in Iraq and still suffer for it. That guy is an economic illiterate.

The best way to go for libertarians is the Libertarian Party. The problem with supporting the GOP is that libertarians can only take the blame for the sins of the GOP. This is not good. There is nothing wrong with our platform. Tax cuts work along with reductions in spending and withdrawal from foreign interventions like Iraq. Libertarianism is a package deal. The GOP got libertarian support because they believed in tax reduction and government reduction. The GOP does not believe in this anymore. They are a joke.

It may surprise people, but major parties do die. Remember the Whigs and the Federalists? It is time for the GOP to die and be replaced with the LP. I support the Libertarian Party.

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