Liberal Republican Party

I'm in favour of anything that splits the Republican vote and keeps them out of power

 

my bad.

I thought you were proposing a new party. Not just a jump to the left. A time warp....so to speak.

 

Aren't Liberal Republicans pretty much just Libertarians and Authoritarians?

 

you think that will help convince the public that Obama is a terrorist?

 

Rush would never OK it.

 

Now having read the Wiki, I don't know what you mean. I don't see that they had a distinctive ideology, only a policy preference on a lond-dead issue. What would a Liberal Republican be today?

 

The Right is such a mess right now, it's honestly frightening how many disparate elements are wrapped around each other's throats.

You've got neo-conservatives who are basically social/economic liberals who are only Republicans because of their ardent belief in military intervention.

You've got libertarians, economically conservative but socially liberal who are only Republican because it is the lesser of two evils.

Then you've got the classic old-school religious hardball, economically and socially conservative and increasingly irrelevant in a flood of moral scandals and a wave of "STFU"s heading their way.

And of course you have the extremists. white man marches on and all that crap

it's seriously fascinating how the party holds itself together.

 

I heard the new GOP logo looks like this:

 

RINO.

 

so a liberal party that believes in small government

 

no party is going to do well that isn't bending over backwards for our banker overlords.

 

American parties work best when they are centrist "big tent" parties, with the Republican Party slightly right of center and the Democratic Party slightly left of center. When either is abducted by the Far Right or the Far Left, the country goes south. Personally, I favor center right, but I'm comfortable with center left. The key is "center."

 

Keep government small and my taxes low. Deliver the mail, build the roads, provide for the common defense, and leave me the hell alone.

 

Let's be honest. The government basically makes bombs and gives old people money and drugs.

 

No. Libertarianism is an ultra-right ideological cesspool. An actual libertarian state would be a totalitarian nightmare. Of course, big business loves libertarianism inasmuch as they can use/abuse it as an ideological battering ram.