Semi-Libertarian Republicans vs. Establishment, Status Quo, Big Gov't Republicans


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Republicans like Senators Rand Paul (from Kentucky), Ted Cruz (from Texas), and Mike Lee (from Utah), etc. seem to be secret libertarians, or at least semi-libertarians. At the least, they're quietly more pro-freedom than most Americans and Republicans. And yet....their beliefs and political goals are fairly well-known by those who pay attention. Establishment Republicans like Congressmen Peter King (from New York City suburbs, in Long Island) seem to genuinely revile, and bitterly personally oppose, the pro-liberty folks like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/05/17/peter_king_im_thinking_of_running_for_president_to_stop_rand_paul_and_ted_cruz.html

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Republicans like Senators Rand Paul (from Kentucky), Ted Cruz (from Texas), and Mike Lee (from Utah), etc. seem to be secret libertarians, or at least semi-libertarians. At the least, they're quietly more pro-freedom than most Americans and Republicans. And yet....their beliefs and political goals are fairly well-known by those who pay attention. Establishment Republicans like Congressmen Peter King (from New York City suburbs, in Long Island) seem to genuinely revile, and bitterly personally oppose, the pro-liberty folks like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/05/17/peter_king_im_thinking_of_running_for_president_to_stop_rand_paul_and_ted_cruz.html

Mark Levin refers to the Establishment Republicans as the "French Republicans."

No core beliefs who surrender and refuse to fight.

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Mark Levin refers to the Establishment Republicans as the "French Republicans."

No core beliefs who surrender and refuse to fight.

I think the Establishment Democrats also pretty much have no core beliefs, surrender, and refuse to fight. Where are the ones who want to legalize drugs and prostitution, while closing down Guantanamo and giving the jihadi-suspects trials instead of torture? Where are the ones who want to fight the NSA's wild violations of privacy, while rejecting legal favoritism for blacks and women, while opposing American support for the dictatorships of China, Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, etc. ? In the 1970s or so, one might reasonably have expected the leftists/progressives and Democratic Party to stand up for freedom and individual rights in these areas. But now? Almost nothing. :sad:

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Mark Levin refers to the Establishment Republicans as the "French Republicans."

No core beliefs who surrender and refuse to fight.

I think the Establishment Democrats also pretty much have no core beliefs, surrender, and refuse to fight. Where are the ones who want to legalize drugs and prostitution, while closing down Guantanamo and giving the jihadi-suspects trials instead of torture? Where are the ones who want to fight the NSA's wild violations of privacy, while rejecting legal favoritism for blacks and women, while opposing American support for the dictatorships of China, Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, etc. ? In the 1970s or so, one might reasonably have expected the leftists/progressives and Democratic Party to stand up for freedom and individual rights in these areas. But now? Almost nothing. :sad:

Kyrel:

I disagree. Don't underestimate them.

There are maybe 20 % who are like that vs. 60% of Republicans.

The rest of the Dems are hard core agenda marxists/alinskyites/socialist/statists.

Each of them have encysted hundreds of provisionals into the Federal Administrative State. By now they have passed their civil service tests and will rise within each agency tweaking language in regulations until they choke this economy into a no growth, equalitarian "soft tyranny." [see Tocqueville and Levin].

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