QUOTE(dtobias @ Sun 17th May 2009, 4:34pm)
...not that there's anything wrong with that...
Not necessarily, anyway. I shouldn't risk alienating any Volokh Conspiracy readers who may be checking out our helpful little website, but the sad fact of it is, there are a lot of Bush-baby Neocon Republicans out there painting themselves as "Independents" and "Libertarians" so that they can avoid the Bush Stigma whilst carrying on the fight for various aspects of the Anti-Obama, Anti-Abortion, Pro-Censorship, Anti-Gay, etc. etc., agenda. If I were one of those
real libertarians who were into it before it was "cool," dutifully following the smaller-government, fiscal-responsibility agenda, I would be
extremely pissed off about this. Unfortunately, there's probably very little they can really do about it.
Then again, maybe they can turn a few of those people into Ron Paul supporters, by getting them really, really drunk the night before Election Day?