Humble Libertarian

The Humble Libertarian (“HL”) (see blogroll) is a good read every day, but this post is particularly timely and insightful.

Mike Huckabee even sat out the CPAC convention with a bad case of sour grapes, saying: “CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years, one of the reasons I didn’t go this year.” Well, Mr. Huckabee, if you don’t stand for liberty, I pray fervently that the Republican Party knows better than to stand for you in 2012.

This is how it needs to happen. The socialists, fascists, and Fabians hijacked the U.S. Democratic Party over the last century to accomplish their political agenda. I am not unconvinced that the libertarians need to do the same with the Republican Party.

I mostly agree. Only 20% of the country polls as ‘liberal,’ yet liberals dominate a good portion of the political conversation, the Democrat party in general, and apparently occupy 99.99% of the Republican party’s time and attention.

Another interesting point:

Then there’s the fact that they actually gave a standing ovation for Dick Cheney’s surprise speech at CPAC. He joked that “A welcome like that almost makes me want to run for office,” and actually received more thunderous applause. The guy who “vice presided” over eight years of the most radical growth in Federal size and power ever gets that kind of reaction from all of Huckabee’s crazed “libertarians?”

I wish their middle fingers had given him a standing ovation.

To recap, Huckabee boycotts CPAC because it’s too libertarian, allegedly libertarians CPAC-goers cheer for Cheney in spite of his big-government track record, and now HL is about to have an aneurism about the whole situation.

I think Cheney got a big welcome because CPAC-goers are more republican than libertarian (yes, in spite of the fact Ron Paul won the straw poll), Cheney is a Republican, and most of all Cheney has aggressively challenged and criticized the Obama administration in a way no one else, Limbaugh included, can do.

If anything that just shows how looney the Huckabees of the Republican party are. Huckbaee never would have cheered for Cheney because of Cheney’s stance on homosexuals. By the way, the Corner didn’t like much of what Glenn Beck had to say at CPAC, either.

My take is that the Huckabees make Mitt Romney look like a reasonable Republican. The trouble is that Romney is a long way from being a Buckley, much less a Libertarian. HL linked to Cato’s VP destroying the notion that a Romney-like Republican is (a) good for our country (b) considered electable by moderates / tea partiers.

By contrast, Gary Johnson will be good for our country, and is electable - except amongst the Huckabees.

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