{"id":2618,"date":"2002-11-18T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2002-11-19T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/11\/libertarian-temper-tantrum\/"},"modified":"2002-11-18T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2002-11-19T04:03:12","slug":"libertarian-temper-tantrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/18\/libertarian-temper-tantrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian temper tantrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tBen Domenech<\/a> points out that Libertarian Party faithful are white with rage over an Op-Ed in the New York Times<\/a> demonstrating their counter-productive effects:<\/p>\n

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The folks in Oklahoma will have a Democrat governor for the next four years, however — and I’d personally like to know if Radley would’ve voted for Largent, or the Independent. Those national softwood lumber policy arguments don’t work in the OK election, and it’s clear the Indie vote made the difference there (he got 14% of the total after running ad after ad against Largent). Would Radley<\/a> have broken off from the anti-tax pro-gun arch-conservative Largent because he’s a pro-life social conservative, as well?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The money graf from the Op-Ed (by John Miller):<\/p>\n

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Yet Libertarians are now serving, in effect, as Democratic Party operatives. The next time they wonder why the Bush tax cuts aren’t permanent, why Social Security isn’t personalized and why there aren’t more school-choice pilot programs for low-income kids, all they have to do is look in the mirror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Radley joins Professor Reynolds<\/a>, Robert Prather<\/a>, and Clayton Cramer<\/a> in attempting to dodge Miller’s empirical evidence by throwing up emotionally-charged anecdotes. I thought Cramer was smarter than that.<\/p>\n

The arithmetic of third parties is inescapable as long as we don’t have a runoff system. Smart enough people who have views outside the two-party mainstream have recognized this, and formed a Liberty Caucus in the Republican Party to advocate for Libertarian ideas, and a Progressive Caucus in the Democratic Party to lobby for Green ideas. It’s especially odd, with not-too-bright Greens like Ronnie Dugger telling his buds to forget about Nader and vote Dem in ’04 (“Ralph, Don’t Run<\/a>“) that the supposedly intelligent Libertarians are still throwing temper tantrums (as more than one of the comments on Radley’s site says) over the laws of arithmetic. <\/p>\n

See this post<\/a> for my take on the Libertarian Party’s electoral effects this year.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Domenech points out that Libertarian Party faithful are white with rage over an Op-Ed in the New York Times demonstrating their counter-productive effects: The folks in Oklahoma will have a Democrat governor for the next four years, however — and I’d personally like to know if Radley would’ve voted for Largent, or the Independent. … Continue reading “Libertarian temper tantrum”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}