Monday, April 09, 2007

Limousine Liberals and Libertine Conservatives

Make the world go to hell.

I just want to see those slurs in print together. The article that gave rise is just called Libertine Conservatives.

Have a chunk:
Clearly, conservatives can personally defend libertine values for themselves, or for their own [i.e. Limbaugh, ed.], while still being bad on all the issues of freedom related to such libertinism. Just like the limousine liberal politicians who complain that the rich are squashing the poor, only to raise taxes on the little people and funnel more money to themselves and their well-to-do cronies, libertine conservatives generally do not apply their demonstrated values consistently as it concerns political philosophy. They persist in defending a system that cages hundreds of thousands of people for the same activity they themselves have engaged in, sometimes shamelessly, usually with no visible regret.

So, a libertine conservative is a hypocrite, not a libertarian. See comment to this post.

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