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Here's a quick recap of news which might be of interest to libertarians:
Movement loses a presidential hopeful but gains a poet
It looks like the GOP presidential possible who was beginning to rack up a lot of libertarian support has lost pretty much all of his traction. While he's under heavy fire from conservatives, liberals and libertarians, SC Governor Mark Sanford says that he won't resign his office. My female libertarian friends don't think all is lost, as he writes "really romantic" poetry:
I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificently gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curves of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of night’s light...
No hypocrisy from Stossel
Michelle Malkin and I had made suggestions that ABC News allow John Stossel to participate in their White House special with President Obama regarding the proposed government takeover of the health care industry. While ABC didn't heed our sage advice, they did schedule Stossel on the next 20/20 to cover the health care debate.
When Stossel's health care piece was bumped because some famous singer and alleged child molester died, he wasn't overly critical of ABC, though.
"Yes, I am sick of the coverage of Michael Jackson," wrote Stossel. "I hate it that ABC didn’t run my piece. Free markets sometimes encourage pandering to the masses. I still say, bless the market. The good outweighs the bad."
More on health care
I don't agree with much Michael Kinsley might have to say on health care issues, however, he popped one out of the park with this quote in the Washington Post: "If the patient were the president, would he get it? If he'd get it and you wouldn't, it's rationing."
Republicans and Democrats switching sides on gay rights?
It's no big surprise that the Libertarian Party spent some time slapping President Obama around regarding his recent stands on gay rights issues:
Representatives from America’s third-largest party greeted Democrats protesting the Obama administration’s legal arguments defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) outside a Thursday Democratic National Committee fundraiser aimed at gay and lesbian donors, and shared with them information on the Libertarian Party’s advocacy for marriage equality.
“The Obama administration extends their hand for donations from the LGBT community, and then slaps us in the face with the other hand with the defense of DOMA,” said Catherine Sumner, Libertarian National Committee Gay and Lesbian Policy Adviser.
It's indeed interesting that Meghan McCain is telling the GOP to "Go Gay" while they are writing that "Other People's Marriages Are Our Business"over at the Huffington Post.
I never thought I'd see this, though. Here's what Allahpundit has to say on the topic over at HotAir:
I give The One credit here for actually having the elephantine stones to say that the government needs the best possible talent at its disposal while it’s still busy expelling military translators for being gay, and for calling for DOMA’s repeal when he could effectively achieve that on his own by refusing to defend legal challenges to the statute. On the other hand, given the identity politics at stake, there’s no reason for him to grant gays any concession at all. Voting Democrat is what any “authentic” gay person should do, regardless of whether they get anything from it. Just ask a minority voter.
Gubernatorial marijuana bust
Former Alabama Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate Loretta Nall busted out current Alabama gubernatorial candidate (and Congressman) Artur Davis. From the AP:
Legalizing marijuana turned out to be the top single vote-getter when U.S Rep. Artur Davis used his gubernatorial campaign Web site to solicit ideas for moving Alabama forward.
It didn't rate that high with the candidate, however, and he didn't even mention it when thanking contributors after the Web vote was taken down Friday. [...]
When the campaign took the ideas off the campaign Web site, it posted a video of Davis thanking more than 2,300 people for voting for 80 ideas. Davis, who opposes legalizing marijuana, mentioned several of the ideas in his video, but not marijuana.
Additionally, the blow-up pig Nall introduced to Alabama politics just keeps on giving.
The L-Generation
Over at DailyKos, diarists are debating about whether or not President Obama should bring Libertarian Party leaders to the table. Jimdotz writes:
What I am suggesting is that you actively elevate third parties, in general, and Libertarians, in particular, so that conservatives will begin to flow away from the GOP even if they don't come all the way to us Democrats.
Defeat the GOP by cracking their base in two: Let the GOP keep their fundamentalists, but help their libertarians bolt to a newly revived and more potent Libertarian Party.
Of course, this argument could be seen as a bit self serving. However, this response sounds more like one might find on a libertarian blog than a liberal one:
Let libertarians be libertarians. Their outlook is unique and interesting and a constructive part of our country's dialogue. It would be a shame to see the term rendered meaningless through overuse.
In the meantime, more and more people are identifying with general libertarian beliefs. Garry Reed reports:
A recent Libertarian Party of Texas news release began, "Three highly-regarded national polls have confirmed a growing Libertarian trend in U.S. politics."
The Pew Research Center annual report on political values and trends concluded, "these independents are more likely to be economically conservative and socially tolerant."
In simple lay terms, that defines libertarians.
The Washington Post/ABC poll reported, "87% of Americans are concerned by the growing federal deficit, and 53% were not confident in the government's ability to cut wasteful spending in the President's economic recovery package."
Which is another way of saying that a majority of Americans take the libertarian view on these issues.
A Rasmussen Reports poll discovered that "Fifty-nine percent (59%) of politically independent Americans viewed 'big government' as the greatest threat" to the country in the future, as opposed to big business or big labor.
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