{"id":8382,"date":"2013-11-06T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T10:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/06\/libertarian-losertarian-party-strikes-again\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T10:23:22","slug":"libertarian-losertarian-party-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/06\/libertarian-losertarian-party-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian (‘Losertarian’) Party Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ken Cuccinelli could have won in Virginia had the Libertarian candidate not siphoned off votes.  Libertarianism<\/em> is a healthy, if extreme, counterbalance to the the hard leftism that controls the Democrat Party, and the soft leftism of the RINOs.  But the Libertarian Party<\/em> is not only unnecessary, but destructive.  Libertarians should follow the lead of Ron and Rand Paul, join the Republican Party, and push it in a libertarian direction, at least with respect to economic and political issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Libertarian ideas<\/em> are many of them good; the  Libertarian Party,<\/em> however, <\/em> is a disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have had my say on this topic in previous posts wherein you will find my reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n

Libertarians are the Ralph Naders of the Conservative Side<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Vote Libertarian, Waste a Vote.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Besides, a vote for the 'Libertarian' candidate, Robert Sarvis, was "insane," according to Ron Paul<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Specifically referring to the mileage taxes that Sarvis indicated he may support and which may require GPS systems to be installed in everyone's cars, Paul said "anybody who would conceivably vote for someone who would endorse a mileage tax" is "insane" because a mileage tax would be an "invasion of privacy" and would just give the government more money it could waste. In an interview on MSNBC, Sarvis indicated that he could support "vehicle-miles-driven taxes."<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ken Cuccinelli could have won in Virginia had the Libertarian candidate not siphoned off votes.  Libertarianism is a healthy, if extreme, counterbalance to the the hard leftism that controls the Democrat Party, and the soft leftism of the RINOs.  But the Libertarian Party is not only unnecessary, but destructive.  Libertarians should follow the lead of … Continue reading “Libertarian (‘Losertarian’) Party Strikes Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}