Word: libertarian
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...party that they feel have steered the leadership away from the GOP's roots in recent years. New Hampshire recently voted - without too much drama - to allow gay civil unions. It's also one of the most liberal states on abortion issues, perhaps a reflection of its libertarian heritage, and has a growing high-tech economy that has brought in more moderate or liberal-leaning voters from neighboring states like Massachusetts. "One of the reasons that you're not seeing conservative candidates doing well in our polling is that there's no one here to talk to," said Andy Smith...
...time that Libertarian congressman Ron Paul told a cheering crowd at the Iowa Republican straw poll that the 9/11 terrorist attacks might have been prevented if the passengers on the planes had been packing heat, I was beginning to wonder if the event-a goofy affair under the best of circumstances-had gone fatally exotic. Paul had one of the largest groups of supporters. So did Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, who provided a massive air-conditioned tent that looked something like the Denver airport and featured nonstop evangelical preachers and a Christian rock band that strip-mined Stevie Wonder...
...only thing disappearing from John McCain's campaign faster than funds are his senior campaign staff. Last month, in the course of one week, McCain's chief strategist, campaign manager, research director, political director and communications director (plus his two deputies) all resigned. With less cash on hand than libertarian gadfly Ron Paul, the one-time nominee-in-waiting is now stuck in third or fourth place in most polls among the Republican pack...
Have you ever thought of running for public office? -Phillip Andrews, SANTA FE, N.M.I won't be running, but I am probably going to accept a trustee position for the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank. I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed...
...liberal notions." And he does keep turning all the desk lamps in the halls of the hotel off. He figures people like to identify him with the GOP partly because it makes him seem rebellious within Hollywood and partly because we like to see our heroes as rugged, libertarian individualists. Which leads him to lament living in a time when Isaiah Washington is fired for calling a gay Grey's Anatomy co-star a "faggot." "I hate to think we live in a time when you can get fired from your job because of what you say," he says...