In Light Of CPAC Conflicts, Freedom Watch Revisits Conservative/Libertarian Alliance

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by Frances Martel | 1:17 pm, February 12th, 2011

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The American right may have won a significant victory in November, but it seems that at least once a year, during CPAC season, they suffer a tremendous public identity crisis, with civil libertarians going after the “family values” conservatives at a convention that often feels like more of a negotiation meeting than a union of like minds. To discuss these sentiments, Judge Andrew Napolitano has been debating members of all side of the right on priorities, and how important civil liberties are compared to the increasingly desperate national economic situation.

In many ways, the odd couple dynamic between civil libertarian types and family values traditionalists is the core plot device of Freedom Watch– the show did burst out of the gates with a Ron Paul-Sarah Palin showdown– and the dialogue is at its best when analyzing that tension. Given that CPAC tends to bring that tension to the forefront, Judge Napolitano has been speaking to people all across the right-wing spectrum, from Palin (who he bafflingly described as “a little more on the libertarian side,” before modifying that as a relative label to Mike Huckabee) to Huckabee. Bringing in executive vice president of the Cato Institute David Boez today, the pair sought to find which side provided the Republican Party a greater political edge. Boaz appeared to not see it as a contest at all.

Explaining that the issues bringing voters to the polls last November were “deficits, debts, and takeovers of companies,” he wondered how diverting attention from those would help Republicans at all, and he expressed concern that Republicans were shifting priorities. “It seems to be they’re down on Capitol Hill,” he explained, “talking about abortion, and [sic] they’re across town, conservatives are debating whether gay people are allowed to be in the same hotel. That looks to me like they’re diverting themselves from the focus they promised during the election.”

There was little dissent from the Judge, though the biggest issue for him, even more than the microeconomic issues, was the astronomical debt, and the fact that the Republican leadership, to him, didn’t appear to be doing enough to cut it. He even noted that Sen. Rand Paul‘s budget cut– by far the most extreme proposed in the Senate– fell far too short of being anything but a bandage over the debt.

The discussion via Fox Business below:

budget, Cato, conservatives, David Boez, Fox Business, Freedom Watch, Judge Andrew Napolitano, libertarians, Rand Paul

lazzzlo

My brow is still sweating from another post but I think that the politicians should be less concerned with how to teach “family values” and much more concerned with base line political strategy.

If you keep on trying to figure out different ways to sell the same thing; all you do is split votes.

CPAC has to figure out what they want to do. Prove a point and fracture conservatives or…
http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

Social Conservatives LOL What a joke! So is Huckleberry! The Repubics are on their way out, as well as their Democrap bedfellows…

Socialism= Tyranny

Libertarianism = Freedom
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

You know, with tax cut extensions, cutting energy assistance to the poor, record profits at Goldman Sachs, and “Drones Away” in Afghanistan…..when does Obama address CPAC?
LOL!
Just_MC

Libertarianism espouses the natural rights of all men. Everyone is free to live and to do whatever he wants, everyone OWNS his own body, and OWNS his property (that which is given to him and the fruit of his labor). And everyone has the right TO DEFEND these rights.

The only rightful limitation on this liberty is where it DIRECTLY tramples the liberty of the next man. Your freedom to swing your fist stops at the chin of the next man, so long as he is not attacking you or stealing from you.

The core of libertarianism is essentially the Golden Rule.

Those who seek to use the force of the state to prevent homosexuals from marrying? They seek to limit liberty where that liberty harms no one.

Those who seek to use the force of the state to prevent peaceful people from ingesting certain foods or drugs? They seek to limit liberty where that liberty harms no one.

Those who seek to use the force of the state to prevent people from arming themselves so that are able to defend themselves from common criminals or government criminals? They seek to limit liberty where that liberty harms no one.

Those who seek to use the force of the state to seize wealth for any reason EXCEPT TO DEFEND THESE LIBERTIES? They are nothing but thieves.
Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

More highlights from CPAC that Mediaite won’t report on

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/12/video-herman-cains-speech-to-cpac/

If you watch one speech in its entirety, this may be the one to choose. Herman Cain, so far the only declared candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, stole the show yesterday with his speech in the late afternoon. People left the ballroom saying that he moved them to tears. Whether one thinks that Cain has a chance of making inroads for the nomination or not, there is no doubt at all of Cain’s value to the conservative movement. In this speech, Cain delivers a stirring stemwinder, reminding people to “stay informed, stay involved” — and ruffled some feathers by telling CPAC that “stupid people are ruining America”:

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/12/video-herman-cains-speech-to-cpac/

I can’t image why Mediatite would ignore this one. Oh wait, yes I can.
Glackin

How can any libertarian be associated with the GOP when the GOP keeps pushing government into bedrooms, classrooms, and lives? The GOP wants to control who you sleep with, who you marry, what you’re taught about the origin of our world. “Judge” Napolitano is hardly a fair critic of candidates, when half of them seem to be his co-workers at Faux News. The CPAC convention seemed more like a dog and pony show set up to amuse the masses while the deals are made on Wall Street. Just more “bread and circuses”, as has been done since the time of the Caesars.
http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

“How can any libertarian be associated with the GOP when the GOP keeps pushing government into bedrooms, classrooms, and lives?”

—Because the dems want to control smoking, obesity, trans fats, speed limits, hate speech, etc, etc, etc. Besides, how is the GOP in our bedrooms? Sodomy laws were abolished and I don’t see the GOP trying to bring them back.

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5KNAUV7ISFLY5PGRBW62C2GTUM Mark

We in the Tea party (I am Libertarian by philosophy) are revamping the GOP to be the New place for Libertarians. This is because building the Libertarian party to a national power is a long term (100 year) project. We can “own” the gop in 2 more elections if people like you will vote fopr conservative Libertarians in the GOP.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5KNAUV7ISFLY5PGRBW62C2GTUM Mark

We in the Tea party (I am Libertarian by philosophy) are revamping the GOP to be the New place for Libertarians. This is because building the Libertarian party to a national power is a long term (100 year) project. We can “own” the gop in 2 more elections if people like you will vote fopr conservative Libertarians in the GOP.