(April 24, 2011 at 3:43 pm)theVOID Wrote: Peter Schiff explains why the Libertarians are better off trying to influence the GOP.
I got halfway through the video before switching it off. The guy lost all credibility with two bogus claims:
1. The Republican party has moved "so far to the left" that he can't imagine how they could go any further. HUH? Has this guy been living in an alternate reality? The GOP keeps moving to the right each year so now GWB is a centrist by comparison.
2. The democrats rely on social issues to energize their base. Actually, its the economic issues that are getting democrats fired up these days.
If the Libertarians have been trying to influence the GOP, which they seem to have considering how they get sucked into voting for them every year, the efforts have been a catastrophic failure. Each election year, Republicans replay the tape of Reagan saying "government IS the problem" and then proceed to grow the government every time they win.
Last election, it was all about small government and cutting spending. Upon entry into office, it's "abortion, abortion, abortion". Oh, and let's appoint a dictator to your local town, throwing out all the elected officials. How's that small government thingy goin for ya?
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