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These commentaries illustrate just how stupid most conservatives actually are.

Moral busy bodies...

Naw, I'm quite content really... letting everyone else suffer the consequences of their own ignorance.

We have the state to punish criminals. I think you're confusing Libertarianism and Anarchism. Disagreements Libertarians have with Conservatives include:

1. A lot fewer behaviors should be considered criminal.
2. The free market knows best
3. The state should intervene in foreign affairs a lot less.

All of which are public services. Local government doesn't contradict anything I said.

I don't see how anything we said disagrees or how what I said amounts to statism.

Cowgirl sucks. I'm always afraid of this happening:

http://www.urologyhealth.org/urology/index.cfm?article=12

... Odd.

I think of the establishment Republicans and the tea party... I think the tea party is closer to Libertarians.  So, tea party folk are bottom dwellers?

I am going to take an arm chair psychologist guess on why you seem angry at libertarians.  I don't think its there ideology as compared to liberalism, libertarians are rocket scientists.  I think this is a poll issue.  If a Republican, Democrat and Libertarian are all running... the Republican and Liberatarian will usually split the conservative vote.  Hence instead of the republican winning 55% to 45% he would lose (35%rep,45%dem,20%L) kinda like how Clinton won the presidency without winning the over 50% of the vote.

BeoWolfe,

Yes, the Tea Party is rooted in Libertarian, not "conservative," principles. Their focus is on the Constitution and fiscal sanity, not bedroom and world policing.

I can't disagree that Libertarians tend to take more conservative than liberal votes (away from people who don't deserve them anyway). But there are certainly a significant number of more liberal minded people who vote Libertarian--as opposed to liberal--in just the same way. I don't have any numbers on the percentages, nor do I disagree it's probably more people would choose conservatives as the "lesser evil" given the choice of conservative or liberal. But they do exist.

Edit: They don't "take" conservative nor liberal votes. I worded that poorly. I just meant what I said in the second half of the above: Many libertarians see conservatives as the lesser of the two evils. They vote Libertarian because it best fits their views and values; and surely more would if they weren't sure, before most elections started, that the only feasible outcomes were Republicrat varieties. But many (not trying to argue a majority) also choose liberalism as the lesser of the two evils, because they take bigger issue with the bedroom policing and warmongering of conservatives vs the oversized nanny government of liberals. (In practice, of course, liberals are good warmongerers too--but they tend to give more lip service to not killing everyone and our kids)

Einstein,

Thanks for making up numbers. You always convince us that you're smart and educated when you make stuff up!

Yes, the majority is always right. Republicans and "conservatives" are so smart! There's more Republicans than Libertarians, so Republicans have better ideas. Just like there's more Communists than Libertarians, so Communists have better ideas. Thanks for enlightening us. Appeals to majorities aren't just fallacious reasoning when arguing/backing up your position, they're also a staple Einstein reasoning tool!

"Yes, the majority is always right. Republicans and "conservatives" are so smart! There's more Republicans than Libertarians, so Republicans have better ideas."

of course, if you WERE a horse's ass, you might see most people give you the finger too...confusing isn't it

oh no, I am right, period.  If logic fails to justify it, so much the worse for logic.  I don't pretend its a subject for debate anyhow, it's you lot who want to argue about it.

i studied medieval history, so I know about Peter Abelard, who thought he could go around arguing with clergy and proving not that he was better than clergy but that he knew the nature of God better.  Because he was a doofus he thought he could bang his boss's neice, and his boss decided that firing him wasn't good enough, so he had him castrated too.