Comments on: Libertarian Democrats: The Titillating Myth

By: Club Troppo » With friends like these…

Club Troppo » With friends like these… — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:05:35 +0000

[...] "…it’s President Bush and his GOP Congress who have made the best arguments for pulling the lever for any candidate that doesn’t have an "R" by his or her name." Nick Gillespie, Cato Unbound [...]

By: links for 2006-10-12 at Hangover Sunday

links for 2006-10-12 at Hangover Sunday — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:53:44 +0000

[...] Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Libertarian Democrats: The Titillating Myth by Nick Gillespie Suck it, Kos [...]

By: Alabama Liberation Front

Alabama Liberation Front — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:29:01 +0000

Kos gets bitch-slapped

I had thought about doing a post about Marko Moulitsas Zuniga’s ridiculous assertion of the existence of “libertarian Democrats,” but why bother, now that Nick Gillespie has sliced Kos to ribbons:

By: MND: » Libertarian Democrats: The Titillating Myth

MND: » Libertarian Democrats: The Titillating Myth — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:37:48 +0000

[...] Nick Gillespie: A couple of years ago, the great essayist and trash-culture authority Joe Bob Briggs told me about the heroic but–alas!–doomed search for a cinematic pot of gold that was called “couples porn.” Back in the 1970s, after the surprising mainstream success of Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door, makers of skin flicks tried to produce movies that would appeal not simply to their traditional audience of male Pussycat Theater patrons but the guys’ female partners as well. It was an intriguing idea that somehow never quite came to life in the cold, hard light of reality. I thought about couples porn a lot while reading Markos Moulitsas’s “The Case for the Libertarian Democrat…” [...]

By: Freedom Democrats

Freedom Democrats — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:20:08 +0000

Convenient marriages, couples porn, and libertarians playing with themselves.

Followed Logan here from Kos. He looks like a bird of a feather, so thought this might be a site to flock around with when I am not posting on my blog or being abused at Red State or Kos. I comment on the Cato Unbound Kos essay in my blog post A Marriage

By: Dave Budge .com » Second Thoughts

Dave Budge .com » Second Thoughts — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:49:58 +0000

[...] Nick Gillespie wrote a retort to Morkos’ appeal for libertarians to join the Democratic coalition that pretty well sums up the problems we life, liberty and property types have with the prescription. The money quote: What speaks far louder than Moulitsas and Reed’s ritualistic, feel-good invocations of “civil liberties,” “smaller government,” “restrained government,” “ending corporate welfare,” and the like are the things they don’t even mention. Are they in favor of, say, ending the drug war? Vouchers for public schools? Social Security reform (Meyerson is clearly against this)? Where do they stand on issues related to free expression — do they support Howard Dean’s “reregulation” of the media? Hillary Clinton’s censorious aims toward the dread menace of video games or the FCC’s desire to regulate cable and satellite TV and radio; are these markets that need to be tempered by regulation? Do they agree that McCain-Feingold-style campaign-finance “reform” is nothing more than an abridgement of the First Amendment? Where are the libertarian Democrats on such things? [...]

By: Inactivist

Inactivist — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:37:35 +0000

Convenient marriages, couples porn, and libertarians playing with themselves.

I commented on the Cato Unbound Kos essay in my blog post A Marriage of Convenience. Linked to Mona’s post on the same subject and found myself in agreement with much of it. So after updating a reaction to Gillespie’s “reaction essay”, thought it…

By: Divided We Stand United We Fall

Divided We Stand United We Fall — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:17:26 +0000

A Marriage of Convenience.

In short, in 2006 we have made a match, and will consummate a marriage of convenience between democrats and libertarians. It may be little more than a fling, a star-crossed union that is destined to fall apart in a year or two. But, it’ll have plenty…

By: Freedom Democrats

Freedom Democrats — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:40:46 +0000

The Problem With Some Democrats

Nick Gillespie has his thoughts on libertarian Democrats up at Cato Unbound now, but I also wanted to cover some reaction to Harold Meyerson.
Kudos to Nick Gillespie for mentioning both Freedom Democrats and Terry Michael. As for feeling like Trotsky dur

By: Maybe Shortbus is the new Deep Throat « ZenPolitics

Maybe Shortbus is the new Deep Throat « ZenPolitics — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:03:57 +0000

[...] Nick Gillespie wants us to know that he was thinking of couples porn while reading Kos’ lead essay at this month’s Cato Unbound. I have only one request–if at any point during reading one of my entries you start thinking of porn of any kind, please do not say so. Anywhere. Unless you’re an attractive woman. Who doesn’t know my wife. [...]

By: Inactivist

Inactivist — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:16:58 +0000

Gillespie on “libertarian Democrats: “couples porn”

At Cato Unbound, Nick Gillespie has posted his essay in response to Markos Moulitsas’ The Case for Libertarian Democrats, the latter of which I wrote of here. In Nick’s reply one immediately enounters the Nick we all love, opening as he does his dis…