Libertarians Need To Make A Hostile Takeover

The Republican Party is dead. Finished. Kaput. It died a quiet death with the nomination of 'The Maverick' may he rest in peace. Actually it was even before his nomination when the party candidate elites decided to trash and marginalize the only surviving Reaganite. I speak of course of Ron Paul. Even pseudo-conseverative pundits - Sean Hannity comes to mind - joined in the bloodletting.

It is no longer a party of principles, new ideas or even celebrity. The party of Reagan, that gained even greater prominence with their takeover of the House in 1994 has become a whimpering, cowering lap dog unable to mount a cogent thought or policy. It became a big spending pork barrel machine that rivaled the Democrat Party and thus lost it's way.

And there appears to be no apparent effort to resuscitate itself. Republican leaders moan about the cost of the 'stimulus' package which from here on I will call the Bankruptcy Bill (BB) and seem to want merely to tinker around the edges. They have in essence become the Democrat-lite party. Who needs that?

Now enter the Libertarian Party. Full of ideas based on time honored principles but who has even heard of them except for maybe a handful of people? Yet it was largely their ideas that were adopted by the Gingrich Republicans and won massive victories in Congress.

Face it - we are a two party, or rather a party and a half, country and no third party is ever going to gain much traction. Even Ross Perot with his billions of dollars could only win at best 15% of the popular vote and was only useful as diluting the vote for one party or the other. Teddy Roosevelt, a very popular ex-President, could not win election as a newly formed Bull Moose party died a quick death after his defeat.

There are two ways this country can go. As a free market capitalist economy with a limited decentralized federal government and a return to individual rights and self-determination or we can continue the course towards massive federal government, collective rights and bankruptcy.

Just as the radical 'progressives' (read Marxists) through Moveon.org and other affiliates invaded the Democrat Party structure and effectively took over it's apparatus so does a group need to seize control of the only last salvation this country has and take over the Republican Party and use that as it's instrument to change.

The Liberetarian Party members need to drop their smugness and self-importance and actually DO SOMETHING for a change and aggressively initiate the hostile takeover of the Republican Party which is the only remaining vehicle for it's philosphy to be heard. And once it is heard - that ideas of limited government, individual freedom and resistence to foreign interventionism it may emerge as the dominate influence for generations.

But the time is short. The march towards national socialism (NAZI) is gaining steam and will soon wash over this country and engulf it in a giant cesspool which will leave few, and not very attractive, alternatives to escape it's stench.