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ah . . . did NASA discover some form of extraterrestrial political creature? From what planet do these libertarians hail from? If they’re from earth, can they read? Have they been brainwashed?

Michael D. Tanner, Cato’s director of Health and Welfare Studies and author of Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservativism Brought Down the Republican Revolution writes:

“Mitt Romney’s victory in Michigan’s Republican primary last night throws the GOP race for president wide open. But it should also end once and for all the idea that Romney is the heir to Reagan-style conservatism. … George W. Bush once said’ ‘When somebody hurts, government has got to move.’ Mitt Romney echoes that, ‘A lot of Washington politicians are aware of it, aware of the pain, but they haven’t done anything about it. I will.’ Ronald Reagan must be spinning in his grave.”

If, however, it’s these happy libertarians secret adgenda to pound the final nail in the GOP’s coffin, they couldn’t hope for more than to get Romney elected.

Romney? Romney opposes free market economics. He supports the Iraq war and the Warfare state. He has flip flopped on the positions where he was previously more libertarian.

At least he isn’t as terrible on civil liberties as the last Republican you tried to sell as a libertarian, Rudy Giuliani.

And Bill Weld, Mr. libertarian Republican, is a big Romney guy. If Romney gets the nod, libertarians will be very happy with him as the GOP choice.

At present, while far from perfect, at least there is a clear advantage to the Democrats in terms of opposing the war and opposing the agenda of the religious right.

There’s no real answer, but it certainly explains the increasing migration of libertarians voters to the Democratic Party. They may be no better, but at least the Dems offer libertarians something in social and foreign policy circles that the Republicans don’t.

In related items, MSNBC is now reporting that exit polls show that 73& of the uncommitted votes would have gone to Obama. Despite the high unemployment here, not many buy Edwards BS.

It also sounds like the exit polls show that half of the male voters and a large majority of black voters picked uncommitted.

I wonder how well Obama would have done if he was on the ballot.

Damn, that’s very sad. Who knows how many voters filled out Obama’s (or Edwards’s or Richardson’s) name not knowing that their votes would be discarded like yours? Who knows what the margin of victory for Clinton or “Uncommitted” might have been?

Well, fortunately, Clinton didn’t win by two votes, so you’re safe, but it appears that they are still counting Dodd’s votes even though he dropped out. It appears that you should have stuck to your original plan and voted for him.

Anyway, it’s a deep shame you were not informed that you could not vote for the candidate that you wanted to in this particular primary. This system needs to be fixed.

Even if Paul broke into double digits, would it matter? Even if he pulled in 15%, he’d still have no chance of winning the nomination.

6% does show how little support Paul has, considering that a fair chunk of his vote probably is coming from anti-war Democrats who are voting for him due to the lack of a real Democratic primary.

And on the eve of Michigan Daily Kos releases a damning video of a White Supremacist who is listed as Paul’s Midland, MI County Chairman. Also, photo of Paul with the White Supremacist.