Cato says that libertarians are this year's swing voters.Cato, the libertarian think tank, issued a scathing rebuke of the Bush administration's trampling of the Constitution in May ("Power Surge"). Money quote:
President Bush's constitutional vision is, in short, sharply at odds with the text, history, and structure of our Constitution, which authorizes a government of limited powers.Of course, Putz never mentioned it. Not a peep. Zilch.
This raises several questions.
How is it possible that a so-called libertarian and a law professor did not notice the most prestigious libertarian think tank, charging the President with being "sharply at odds" with the Constitution? And why has this so-called libertarian been glibly dismissing the ever-expanding legal concerns about the Bush administration that Cato elucidated: sanctioning torture, the death of habeas corpus, the NSA wiretapping, etc.? Finally, if the Democrats are so unserious and traitorous and flawed, why did twice as many libertarians vote for John Kerry than did for Al Gore? If the trend continues, that means the libertarian vote will be split in 2008.
You'd never know this if you read Putz's "libertarian" blog, which is little more than a repository for cartoonish attacks on Democrats and vapid rationalizations of Republican policies and misdeeds.
2 comments:
Another great post. Instarube is in no way a libertarian, save his ideas about the second amendment. Bush is the libertarian's worst nightmare, and yet 'Rube is his biggest cheerleader.
Which brings me around, yet again, to my biggest question about Instarube--is he stupid or is he a liar? In this instance, is he so ignorant of libertarian thinking that he honestly considers himself a libertarian without having a clue what he is talking about? Or does he have at least a rough idea about libertarian ideas, knows he is not at all one, and still claims to be one anyway?
Either way, he is not terribly bright to imagine that even a very average reader would not pick up on the discrepancies.
I actually think Putz is just a cynical and clever marketer. There are dozens and dozens of angry wingnut blogs -- he links to them all the time.
But by maintaining this absurdly thinly-veiled "non-partisan, libertarian" identity, he's still able to fool some of the people some of the time.
To wit: Bill Maher and Arianna Huffington are both on record as reading his blog, and Arianna links to him.
They're not paying close attention, clearly.
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