Libertarianism Is Stupid

Libertarians do have some beliefs that I support wholeheartedly among them legalization of marijuana, pro-gay marriage, anti-censorship, pro-privacy, women's right to choose and pro-property rights. Most of the rest I find kinda screwy. If we were to go so far as the Libertarians would like, our highways and other roads would not be maintained, environmental protection would be solely up to the individual and unproven medical treatments would be widely available. Bush has personally proven that a totally free market economy would only bring our republic further ruin.

Libertarianism is not practical. It's stupid.

In my experience, there are only two kinds of libertarians:

1. The wild-eyed true believing anarchist types.
2. The "former" Republicans who claim they're "Libertarian" because they're currently ashamed of their party and wish to duck responsibility for the George W. Bush Presidency.
   

Almost all* those in category #2 are TLINOs (Temporary Libertarians In Name Only). They have no intention of leaving the GOP or joining the Libertarian Party. They'll either hold their noses and vote for McCain or sit this one out instead of working to rebuild their party for within. Until Republicans regain their self-respect back, Libertarianism is serves as a fashionable holding pattern. Whatever happens, it's not their fault.

I respect the crazies in category #1 far more than I do the #2s.

-AF

*The exception to this rule being the Bob Barr/Christine Smith types (though I've never seen anyone join a party, make a bid for that party's Presidential nomination and quit that party as quickly as Christine Smith).

I Demand An Apology From GOP "Ladies"

Every last one of them...For their very existence. Given the GOP's hideous record against families, children, education, women, our environment and everything else just, right, good and fun, I can't think of anybody more self-loathing than Republican chicks. OK, maybe I can. Log Cabin Republicans. But, as Peter Griffin would say, I digest...

Minnesotan GOP "ladies" want Al Franken to apologize for a Playboy CEO Christine Hefner-hosted fund raiser plus his "Porn-O-Rama"satire he wrote for that mag back in 2000. They're hoping against hope that these two tiny "issues" of minimal importance resonate with Minnesotans.

These "ladies" probably think Franken's hi-larious as Stewart Smalley. (I disagree). But don't let him make funny about sex. After all, sex is wicked icky. It's shameful. It's only for makin' other lil' Republicans. Sex is what their husbands do with other men.

As Raw Story reports:

The Republican Party of Minnesota web site, notes that "Rep. Laura Brod, Dr. Laura Dean, Sen. Michelle Fischbach, Mary Igo, Annette Meeks and Laura Merickel called Franken’s column an 'extreme example of the kind of disrespect for the role of women in society that all of us have fought our entire lives' and called on Franken to 'denounce this article and apologize immediately.'"

This "issue" ranks up there with idiot Arlen Specter's ill-advised attempt at investigating my beloved over-investigated New England Patriots. Meanwhile two wars rage on, health care blows, a record number of homes are being foreclosed, people are out of work, gas prices are sky-high, food has become ridiculously expensive, the economy's tanked and Republicans have looted our treasury.

Al Franken has absolutely nothing to apologize for. But every single Republican owes America an apology for the past eight disastrous years.

-AF