Libertarian Message Speaks To Everything Except Reality

http://lpin.org/2014/01/09/libertarian-party-targets-indiana-house-district-seats/

"We have not specifically targeted vulnerable seats in the past. We are now," noted LPIN State Chairman Dan Drexler. "As a growing party, it is important we show our presence matters. It is important voters and the media begin seeing we are serious about changing policy, running candidates to challenge races and moving a libertarian philosophy forward through real policy."





This quote came from the Libertarian Party of Indiana.  It is an admission and a pivot all in one paragraph.  Libertarian Indiana is an example of why the conservative party is cracked at the seams and why it may soon break apart altogether.

Libertarians appeal to all of us in some way or another.  If you are black like me, you wish the failed government intervention with the war on drugs didn't destroy the lives and families of so many black men and their families. Libertarians don't uphold such government intrusion. They appeal to liberals because they don't believe the federal government should legislate morality but promote a live and let live (and let states decide) ideology.  Libertarians lock arms with the small government ideology on many levels. The damage that government has actually done and the perception of damage is enough to garner support by many for the idea of smaller government.  For the war weary, less government will mean less soldiers in other people's country wasting lives and money.

Libertarians are on the growth trend because they have developed a message that speaks to everything except reality.

The reality of live and let live makes us hesitate when we probably should have moved with force on Syria and their toxic chemicals and left Iraq and Afghanistan to Saddam and the drones respectively.  We shouldn't waste money and lives on wars that have no mission or conclusion in mind, but we should forcefully take chemical weapons away from people who will use them on their own because it is the right thing to do and it informs the next villain who does this to expect a similar response.  Because we did so little, the next villain will expect so little as well.

The reality of live and let live is that it ignores our disturbed suburban white youth who keep snapping and committing suicide by mass murder in our schools.  Can small government deal with this social ill without intruding on the freedom of crazy kids and the parents who raise them?  

The admission?

The lead quote is an admission that Libertarians have intentionally avoided voting for their own candidates or putting their own candidates up against vulnerable republican seats in order to tow the republican party line.

The pivot?

Libertarians won't do that anymore, at least not in Indiana.  If this is a sign of things to come, Rand Paul will play a significant role in the 2016 election, maybe to the ultimate benefit of Hillary.