If Giuliani gets the Republican primary nod, he sets the agenda for the Republican Party and Giuliani is libertarian in ideology. That gives the Libertarians a major party of their own. It's time to kick the evangelicals to the curb and give ourselves a real choice for once. Hope it happens... What do you think?
2007-03-22 12:15:02 · 7 answers · asked by Dan 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
OK, fair enough. Here are 10 common views of Rudy and Libertarians:
1) Lowering the income tax
2) Making people earn entitlements or eliminating them altogether
3) Reducing crime (i.e., violation of individual rights, major Libertarian issue)
4) Reducing the size of government
5) Streamlining bureaucracies
6) Tort reform
7) Private accounts instead of social security
8) Zero tolerance of those who refuse to work
9) Pro-choice
10) Pro-civil unions
Oh, and on gun control: Rudy just made people get permits for guns. The police and military have to get them why can't the same rule apply to citizens?
2007-03-22 12:52:01 · update #1
I agree with your analysis.
Guiliani is practical, not pragmatic, and therefore far
better than pseudo-puritanic impracticals of either
party.
That's why right now he's winning voters over.
No one else among the republicans so far has
any reason 75% of the citizens would accept
to think he's any better than the president they
rejected for his failures and bad ideas already.
If it weren't for Iraq's quagmire and illegal aliens,
the next republican nominee would have to run
on hatred of the eco-system and anti-individualist
statism--read neo-fascist policies and contempt for the constitution.
Guiliani, an outsider with his own ideas--doesn't
carry the heavy weight of burden of being an
inside of the eight-year disaster that has been Bush's
presidency. He ought to go all the way, so he can
debate the democratic nominee man to man on the
merits of idea.
Let's hope he does.
2007-03-22 12:41:00 · answer #1 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There may be a little bit of Libertarian in Giuliani, but he isn't such a strong Libertarian that you can celebrate. He tried to censor with an art exhibit in Brooklyn, for example. No libertarian would do that. Libertarians are for decriminalization of drug use. Rudy opposes. And there are more examples.
2007-03-22 19:35:09 · answer #2 · answered by jackbutler5555 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Giuliani is libertarian in ideology" - care to give examples or explain how you reached this conclusion?
Thank you.
2007-03-22 19:31:24 · answer #3 · answered by Bad M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Guiliani is distinctly non-libertarian in his views on gun control & foreign policy. Don't know much about his economic views, they merit investigation too.
2007-03-22 19:21:20 · answer #4 · answered by S1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry. The "He's Libertarian" dog wont hunt.
2007-03-22 19:27:00 · answer #5 · answered by Tropical Weasel 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
giuliani is more liberal than a libertarian.
2007-03-22 19:27:35 · answer #6 · answered by curious_One 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Much too soon. Lots more work to be done.
But we can hope.
2007-03-22 19:18:47 · answer #7 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋