{"id":4273,"date":"2010-06-25T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2010-06-26T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T17:16:26","slug":"qotd-the-danger-of-electing-real-libertarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/qotd-the-danger-of-electing-real-libertarians\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The danger of electing real libertarians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don\u2019t know what it is, but when you go all the way down the libertarian path, it leads to complete insanity. Just look at Ron Paul followers — they\u2019re pretend-to-be-Spock-and-bite-each-other crazy. The libertarian philosophy seems reasonable enough, but it somehow always leads to candidates who accidentally dye themselves blue or carry around a pet ferret named Gustav.<\/p>\n

So anyway, let\u2019s definitely get someone in 2012 sympathetic to libertarian ideals who is adamantly against fiscal irresponsibility and government expansion — and for individualism — but if any candidates start foaming at the mouth, screaming \u201cFIAT MONEY!!!!!\u201d, back away and don\u2019t make eye contact. Still, pure libertarians have a place in the GOP, but they\u2019re sort of like Murdoch to the Republican A-Team: They keep breaking him out of the insane asylum because he\u2019s useful for certain situations, but they\u2019re not going to put him in charge of anything. Or there will be much fool pitying.<\/p>\n

Frank J. Fleming, “Libertarians and the Republican Party”, IMAO<\/em><\/a> 2010-06-25<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know what it is, but when you go all the way down the libertarian path, it leads to complete insanity. Just look at Ron Paul followers — they\u2019re pretend-to-be-Spock-and-bite-each-other crazy. The libertarian philosophy seems reasonable enough, but it somehow always leads to candidates who accidentally dye themselves blue or carry around a pet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,10,53,41],"tags":[188,550,517,419],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-electionwatch","tag-libertarianism","tag-republican","tag-ronpaul"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-16V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}