I agree with a lot of what you say, though.

As far as Barr goes, I can see the jump from Republican politics as practiced now, but his reasoning is incredibly donkey-ish.

I, too, would like to see us get back to Constitutional roots, but more in the way of cut-backs to federal use of “interstate commerce”, getting out of where there is no mention of federal regulation in the Constitution (like in education), eliminating “imminent domain” where it has come to mean taking property illegally, etc. But where does the Constitution say we have to commit suicide just so conversations over public airwaves and under federal jurisdiction can be “protected”? I thought the first duty of any president, VP, senator, representative, judge and so on was to protect our country from enemies foreign and domestic.

Right now I’m seething because some yokel stole the CDL identity of an Oregon trucker and has applied for a New Jersey or New York CDL with a hazmat tag, and they (Oregon and either New Jersey or New York) don’t give a rip. That means whoever it is can fill his truck with dynamite, ammonium, whatever, and drive it into his local courthouse, arena or bowl game and no one will get upset until after the fact.

Now that’s commiting suicide.

Set aside the fact that libertarians haven’t been elected to any significant office in any significant community (at least not when sold under their true label), the ideology itself is populated with people who have little or nothing in common with true conservative values.

Libertarianism and the godless, faithless anarcho-capitalist idiots that make up the ideology are pretty much the catch-all garbage bin of political philosophies.

Fitting that a loser like Barr ends up in that garbage bin.

Mac
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