re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

There are a LOT of Libertarians masquerading as Republicans because that’s the only way they can win elections right now.

I am specifically looking at Rand Paul, my congresscritter Thomas Massie, Paul Ryan, Justin Amash, amongst many other supposed “Republicans”.

Calling them “small l” Libertarians as if that dismisses them as a joke is disingenuous and, actually, outright dangerously foolhardy.

Perhaps there are.

That said, I separate them into small “l” (those who hold libertarian principles regardless of party) and large “L” (those who are members of the Libertarian Party).

The LP itself doesn’t give a hoot about things such whether a woman gets an abortion or two people of the same sex want to marry (as long as they don’t have to pay for it).

My wife made a gradual slide out of the LP and into liberal positions (I corrupted her). Leaning on her as the only LP member I ever met (that I am aware of), she calls Republicans poseurs (because of their social conservative positions such as trying to force creationism into schools and regulating women’s ladybits).