Do Libertarians ever support the Democrats?

[Peacetrain]

. They talk a good game about support individual rights.. many times at the expensive of the poor.. but they are constantly beating their heads against the wall about how bad the Democrats are.. or the Democratic canidates.. but do they ever criticize the Republicans? Do you ever see article after article about the failings of the republicans? Just out of curiosity.

[Skidmore]

1. Only need to look at the affiliation of the leading libertarian legislator in the nation.

Paul belongs to the Republican party. The Libertarian Party never pulls enough votes to place anyone in office. I would say it is a safe bet that they are not interested in assisting Dems beyond splitting the party in much they same way that some of them have attempted on DU.

[Peacetrain]

2. I have never seen any support for Democrats

on social issues that they supposedly espouse.. But the attacks on Democrats are just never ending from that group..

[FSogol]

3. They think they can hit an issue or two and then all the Democrats will join them.

They're even more delusional than their hero Ayn Rand.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. they don't even support their own kind.

although that should probably be "their own mean."

[Rex]

5. Libertarians politically are republicans.

They just found the GOP to be too sensible! Explains the tea party!

[Peacetrain]

6. My husband has been saying this for ages.. that they are the tea party

base.. Sometimes you will see John post in here and he is really anti Libertarian.. just for that reason

[Rex]

7. Disgruntled republicans that didn't get to drown the govt.

So they went full moonbat and actively want the country to fall apart and help with that task in any way they can. IMO, they are the closest thing to anarchist on the right.

[TlalocW]

8. Only in the sense

That when they get in one of their pissy moods and take their ball and go home that it helps democrats.

TlalocW

[shenmue]

9. I've always thought libertarians are a slightly different flavor of Republican

But that's just me.

[unblock]

10. sure, there are left libertarians and right libertarians

just as there is a "christian left" and a "christian right"

it just that some get media attention and others don't.

back in the '60s, you heard all about the christian left and very little about the christian right. ever since the '80s it's been the reverse.

as for libertarians, bill maher is an example the sort of libertarian that is more likely to align with democrats than republicans on most issues. but he's in the minority in terms of media attentions.


edited to add:

left-libertarian: get government out of my bedroom
right-libertarian: get government out of my boardroom

[Johonny]

11. As a political organiztion no

Libertarian as a party is generally been aligned with the Republican party. This is particularly true since the 90s when the two parties merged as powerful Libertarians moved to elect libertarian minded Republicans rather than continue competing against them from the right. As a philosophy... almost every Democrat is a mixture of libertarian and authoritarian ideas.

[HughBeaumont]

12. They spend 95% of their time ripping on them, so . . . .. no.

Red-Baiting, false dilemmas and false equivalencies soil their views . . . they pretty much classify anyone to the left of Joe Lieberturd a "PROGRESSIVE" or a "LEFTITS".

I wouldn't have a problem with them if they only talked about civil rights, ending the drug war and decreasing military spending. But because of their tendencies toward circular arguments regarding property rights, corporate privilege and ususry laws . .. . and, of course, their support of hyper-right-wing economics and Austrian school crackpottery, they can suck it until they start living in the real world.

[Andy823]

13. Exactly!

They seem to be only "against" democrats, and if someone is only bashing democrats while letting the republican obstructionists off the hook for what they have done, then they are no better than republicans themselves, or teabaggers in some cases.

[Xithras]

14. Big "L" or Little "L" libertarian?

Big L Libertarians (the type who ascribe to the Libertarian party) don't have any love for Democrats, but they aren't exactly Republicans either. Most can be described as "open-borders, anti-war, small government capitalists".

Little "l" libertarians actually make up a sizable contingent of the Democratic party. The entire concept of civil rights is built on small-L libertarian principles which state that the rights and personal freedoms of an individual are equal, or superior, to the wants of society or the government. The right of the government to maintain power and regulate society is secondary to the peoples right to be free and equal. The ACLU is a small-L libertarian organization, as an example.

So my answer would be that libertarians often support the Democrats, but Libertarians do not.