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Okay, as the name suggests I'm planning on crashing a party - the Republican Party to be specific.

A number of my libertarian friends say they belong to the Republican Party just for the sake of 'expediency' in the political process. I'm thinking that if enough libertarians can 'crash' the membership of the GOP we can rerout the party to a more libertarian platform.

So if you're a libertarian would you support Operation 'Party Crashers?'

Okay, as the name suggests I'm planning on crashing a party - the Republican Party to be specific.

A number of my libertarian friends say they belong to the Republican Party just for the sake of 'expediency' in the political process. I'm thinking that if enough libertarians can 'crash' the membership of the GOP we can rerout the party to a more libertarian platform.

So if you're a libertarian would you support Operation 'Party Crashers?'


Why not just actually form your own party instead of co-opting the Republican party?

interesting suggestion... Do elaborate.... What is it about the GOP that displeases you? I can imagine the Patriot Act is the starting point of any liberatarian, but feel free to expand..

Why not just actually form your own party instead of co-opting the Republican party?
The current two-party monster has a stranglehold on 3rd-parties. We need a back door in.

Oh snap - I just realized all the Republicans on this board will now be aware of my plan!

Quick, delete your posts and have the thread locked (hey, I'm up for being supportive of a little larceny if it's all in a good cause).

interesting suggestion... Do elaborate.... What is it about the GOP that displeases you? I can imagine the Patriot Act is the starting point of any liberatarian, but feel free to expand..
They are the current ruling party, so I just think it might be well enough to enter the government through them....

please DO
the republican party NEEDS libertarians to moderate their intrusive religious agenda and bad fiscal policy.

fully understanding the growing power base of the Republican Party, what it is it that you are in disagreement with them on specifically? Surely there is something that sets you apart....

please DO
the republican party NEEDS libertarians to moderate their intrusive religious agenda and bad fiscal policy.

The GOP actually has a good fiscal policy as a whole, they just seem to be spending a little too much, which you cannot do if you are cutting funding..

Okay, as the name suggests I'm planning on crashing a party - the Republican Party to be specific.

A number of my libertarian friends say they belong to the Republican Party just for the sake of 'expediency' in the political process. I'm thinking that if enough libertarians can 'crash' the membership of the GOP we can rerout the party to a more libertarian platform.

So if you're a libertarian would you support Operation 'Party Crashers?'

If there were really enough politically active libertarians to make this work, they could just use their own party in the first place.

The GOP actually has a good fiscal policy as a whole, they just seem to be spending a little too much, which you cannot do if you are cutting funding..
they have the biggest national debt is history and are looking to make it worse by fucking with social security. the pork is worse than ever, just WHERE is this good fiscal policy??? or are words enough for you?

The current two-party monster has a stranglehold on 3rd-parties. We need a back door in.

Oh snap - I just realized all the Republicans on this board will now be aware of my plan!

What you say is true but why would you attempt to tackle the 800 lb Gorilla which is growing, when it would be much easier to circumvent a hunk of the exodus from the Democrats? People are leaving the democrats in droves and don't really want to join the Republicans but they have no other viable alternative. The dems have chased off most of the average middle class working family in favor of special interests and socialist groups. Just concentrate your efforts on what they disgarded and what dont really want to be republicans. All you have to do is be honest, don't mis-represent, don't slander and make up bullshit and take a position favorable to the vast majority of Americans which is the middle class without pandering to nutcases and you're in... well after raising a few hundred million in cash, but thats a minor thing. :D

If there were really enough politically active libertarians to make this work, they could just use their own party in the first place.

But, as we've seen through the neo-cons, hijacking the Republican party is relatively easy--and FUN! :p

The GOP actually has a good fiscal policy as a whole, they just seem to be spending a little too much, which you cannot do if you are cutting funding.

Our fiscal policies are far from ideal (IMO). We need to abolish all tariffs, end corporate welfare (right now we practice an almost corporatist policy rather than capitalist) and affirm a tough stance on competition ensuring legislation. We definitely need a more free-market policy (libertarian), which will never happen if the GOP doesn't change.

Realize, people, that I am a conservative. I would love to remain a Republican, but frankly, I cannot until a more libertarian economic policy is put into practice. I also want to revert back to "true-conservatism" which means a non-interventionist foreign policy, and the state should stay out of people's lives (no patriot act)--although I think moral legislation should be used (anti-abortion, etc.) as directed by a democratic majority. Basically, I'm not a libertarian, but not a neo-con either.

I'd be willing to support a libertarian uprising in the Republican party if it would end the current neo-con reign. Libertarians are closer to conservatism than neo-cons.

However, I'd much rather make a 3rd party called the "true-conservatives" and have our platform based on what conservatism USED to be.

I fully support your actions, and wish you the best of luck, as this if sucessful will most likely split the Republican party, therefore allowing it to be more expediently defeated.

I have these strange libertarian urges, but I haven't acted on them yet. I think I was born this way, and I'm libertarian-curious. I haven't told my family though.

Can I join?

Seriously, something has got to change - but I think a split in the Dem. party is more likely. They've got way too big an umbrella and they just can't hold it much longer.

Okay, as the name suggests I'm planning on crashing a party - the Republican Party to be specific.

A number of my libertarian friends say they belong to the Republican Party just for the sake of 'expediency' in the political process. I'm thinking that if enough libertarians can 'crash' the membership of the GOP we can rerout the party to a more libertarian platform.

So if you're a libertarian would you support Operation 'Party Crashers?'
You have my full support. There is a group called the Republican Liberty Caucus that is basically a group of libertarian Republicans. Milton Friedman is one of these Republicans you speak of.

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