My solution? A libertarian takeover of the GOP. Throw out the country clubbers and the dem-lites! Mount their heads on pike poles in front of the building as a warning to others!

Nevermind the last sentence… Must have been my Mongol blood rising.

As a Republican I should push to throw out the fence straddlers, and RINOs, but it’s understandable why some feel that’s futile. I don’t like the idea of a divided conservative constituency versus a united Democrat party though.

Glenn works very hard on his show to make sure his mostly Republican guests subscribe to his “spread the blame equally” viewpoint. He tried perhaps 4 or 5 different times to interrupt Michelle Malkin on his show Thursday(?) as she had the audacity to interject her true opinion that the radical political element being brought to the full light of day in the Obama administration was closely tied to the Democratic party and not the Republican. He knew where she was going with the statement and tried to block her but she plowed forward. And he managed to find a prominent “liberal Democrat” (Pat Caddell) who is willing to go anti-Obama with him, to give the impression that Democrats and Republicans can be equally dissatisfied with Washington. If only.

He might have a guest such as Charles Payne or David Buckner or Amity Shlaes or Jonah Goldberg, Mark Levin, on and on. Rush Limbaugh. I’m sorry but I don’t think any of these people are liberal Democrats. And yet let’s be very clear: Democrats and Republicans are “equally responsible.” “I just want to be very clear about this” he’ll break to say in an aside, “I was just as against Bush” blah blah.

I think Beck has done a great job of bringing some things to light about Obamacare, and his quasi-administration of czars. As long as he stays on topic it’s my favorite show. But I’m not into agreeing with the philosophy of jumping ship and tossing my vote away on a Ron Paul to make a point. The Democrats are very much in power and very much united (although it’s waning slightly). Beck may believe that the tea parties are neither Republican or Democrat, but c’mon. Everybody knows. They’re 95% NOT liberal Democrats.

Political correctness is devoid of tolerance for leftist social “enemies” and it is devoid of the human inspiration and culture that serves a free society. Constitutional freedom is requires both social freedom and economic freedom. Political correctness is the opposite of the culture that serves constitutional freedom. Individual freedom does not mean every man out for himself in life without love and ethics; it is only against the government being used as a charity. Libertarians are strangers to the culture of freedom and committed to the culture of communism.

I also like how you identified the “statist trap:” A candidate with no government solution isn’t even in the game.

I also think libertarians suffer a lack of charismatic personalities. Social scientists will tell you that people vote more on emotion than logic, sad but probably true.

And libertarianism seems cold and sterile. A young guy on a libertarian blog related how his girlfriend cried when he told her people have no “right” to food. It’s true, but it sounds bad when just thrown out there.