Wednesday, September 16, 2009

ON THE TRAIL OF LIBERTARIANS?

I noted below that there seemed to be more libertarians on Politico threads than before and Nate Silver thinks that a lot of the teabaggers may be follow some version of libertarianism. Of course, it's not easy drawing a line between libertarians and movement conservatives on some issues. Both seem to have a fetish about whining that the Federal government is mostly unconstitutional, especially its social welfare program. Perhaps the most reliable way to distinguish between the two is the question of war. Libertarians oppose our current wars while movement conservatives are strongly behind them.

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