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Lisle16
04-03-2009, 12:06 PM
Does anyone know of any libertarian, paleoconservative Democrats (besides Larry McDonald) in the current or past Congresses?

There seems to be several Republicans that are good including Dr. Paul, but not too many Democrats.
ChaosControl
04-03-2009, 12:10 PM
Didn't every dem vote for the stimulus bill? I'd say there are none.
Lisle16
04-03-2009, 12:12 PM
Didn't every dem vote for the stimulus bill? I'd say there are none.

Looks like the far left has taken over the the Party of Jefferson and Jackson. :mad:
Elwar
04-03-2009, 12:15 PM
Former Georgia Senator Zell Miller had some libertarian leanings.
ChaosControl
04-03-2009, 12:21 PM
Looks like the far left has taken over the the Party of Jefferson and Jackson. :mad:

It hasn't been the same party in any of our lifetimes. I'd say it hasn't been the same party since the 1800s.
nate895
04-03-2009, 12:22 PM
Former Georgia Senator Zell Miller had some libertarian leanings.

As many as his fellow Georgian Bob Barr before he left Congress.
nate895
04-03-2009, 12:23 PM
It hasn't been the same party in any of our lifetimes. I'd say it hasn't been the same party since the 1800s.

It hasn't been the same party since its Southern base turned Nanny-Statist because the Federal government had burned their homeland to the ground in a war and they wanted pay back.
Lisle16
04-03-2009, 12:23 PM
It hasn't been the same party in any of our lifetimes. I'd say it hasn't been the same party since the 1800s.

Well, there was still a large block of conservative Southern Democrats in Congress up through the 1980s. Larry McDonald was one of the last ones.
Lisle16
04-03-2009, 12:30 PM
It hasn't been the same party since its Southern base turned Nanny-Statist because the Federal government had burned their homeland to the ground in a war and they wanted pay back.

FDR got the South to support him because the South was hit hard by the Depression. Once the liberals' agenda fully took over the Democratic Party, a lot of Southerners walked out.
ChaosControl
04-03-2009, 12:33 PM
Well, there was still a large block of conservative Southern Democrats in Congress up through the 1980s. Larry McDonald was one of the last ones.

Oh yeah, I am sure there were. I am just saying the party as a whole was no longer the party of Jefferson after the war.
Lisle16
04-03-2009, 12:39 PM
Oh yeah, I am sure there were. I am just saying the party as a whole was no longer the party of Jefferson after the war.

Weren't there always more liberal Northern Democrats though?
nate895
04-03-2009, 12:51 PM
Weren't there always more liberal Northern Democrats though?

Northern Democrats were Jeffersonians too, that was the reason why you were a Democrat back then.
Freedom 4 all
04-03-2009, 02:12 PM
Well, Russ Feingold was the only senate no vote on the patriot act. I don't know if he qualifies as libertarian though.
nate895
04-03-2009, 02:15 PM
Well, Russ Feingold was the only senate no vote on the patriot act. I don't know if he qualifies as libertarian though.

He also co-sponsored McCain-Feingold, designed to stifle free speech by making you file tedious paperwork to exercise the right.
Young Paleocon
04-03-2009, 03:59 PM
I'd say the two least statist Dems in the House (not saying much) are Gene Taylor of Mississppi and the Dem from Idaho.