but the thing that keeps getting missed when it comes to SoCons is that most of us would be part of the leave us alone coalition as well when we’re not under assault…the issue is…as I’ve stated elsewhere that as the founders stated a libertarian society is totally unmanageable in the absence of morality and a community standard by which individuals will adhere and us to govern their own passions.

I know the left sees this and I believe that is why their greatest assaults are on the moral pillars of this society because as they erode and destroy those pillars the rest of the libertarian system begins to fall in upon it’self requiring government to come in and fix it thereby growing government and setting up the next assault on our moral underpinnings…

Libertarians need Social Conservatives like any mammal needs air to breath…ditto Social Conservatives…we can’t survive without each other. Some SoCons have forgotten the libertarian ethos because they got drunk with power after 2000 but I think their numbers and influence has been way over blown recently

Doubters should ask John McCain.

Regards

‘Course the lefties here would tell you that I’m two or three SDs to the right of Ghengis Khan. In fact, I had the pleasure of having one refer to me as “that right wing snake” in the Juneau Empire’s blog the other day.

and I’m with you as well about wanting and accepting every vote I can get for our Party and ideas…again, my issue is with the idea that a minority in this party is bottling up and corking the majority and sabotaging us every time we make a little progress…

If your a Liberal Republican by all means…stay with the Party and vote with us…If we agree on 60% of the issues than that’s good enough for me…but don’t demand that I go along with the 40% liberal positions you have and don’t force it on the majority of the party because you have networked with other Liberals who have the leadership positions in this party locked up in a death grip!

The weather is much more likely to be more or less clear in May, though it can still be a little chilly – well a lot chilly if you’re from Florida. From mid-June through mid-August it is very crowded and by mid-to late August it gets very rainy and some years, like this one, you don’t see the sun at all from late August through November.

My last place there was 13 miles from my business. On good days I could make that commute in an hour at rush hour. You always kept a spare shirt on a hangar in the car because the traffic moved so slowly that the car’s air conditioning never really worked.

Unless I’m coming down from DC or NY, in which case I fly into Savannah, I have to fly into ATL to see my family down in Southeast Georgia. I get my rental car, and pay the exhorbitant rental car tax, and head for I-75 South as fast as I dare. I did spend a couple of nights and go to a ballgame in ATL a few years back because my wife was with me and she’d never been there before. Now that she’s been there, I haven’t lost anything in Atlanta so I have no reason to be there!

NR does Alaska cruises as well; you should try one. A few years back they had a good layover in Juneau and we had a reception for the cruisers here and I got to meet a lot of the brand name commentators of the day including WFB and Milton Friedman. Governor Knowles, a Democrat but also a Yalie, crashed our party to meet WFB much to our consternation. There wasn’t a lot of love in the room when Knowles showed up but WFB was most gracious towards him.

As far as what influence either of us hold, again you are right we don’t have a direct influence, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have any influence. If we don’t have any influence than what is the point of even posting on this site?

Anyhow don’t take what I said as personal.

It’s the lack of Party discipline as well. You don’t see the Democrats moving to the middle to win…they moved left and swamped us while our moderate leadership was busy wetting their fingers and sticking them up to see which way the wind is blowing! Democrats punish their conservative membership for going off the reservation and they vote in lock step as a block…We promote our mavericks and make them our nominee because it’s their turn…

I know where you come from and I know I’m an idealist to a great extent because I believe this can be fixed…but we can’t go on letting a minority run this party and continue losing elections or we might as well pack it up and let the french pick our leadership because we’ll be a dim shadow if the socialist French government!

Pick your ears instead of your nose so you can listen better!