Should libertarians Vote Republican?
Posted 2008-11-02.I read Marginal Revolution from time to time. It is an economics blog. One of the primary bloggers there is Tyler Cowen, and I really enjoy reading his posts.
Tyler recently wrote "... the Republican Party is *** and I will not vote for them". This had little to do with his primary point in the post (which was anti-regulation), but it sparked many angry comments like this one:
A libertarian who votes Democrat because the Republicans are not libertarian enough is like a communist who votes Republican because the Democrats are not communist enough.
This is a sentiment that was immediately suspect to me.
