Will the US's Current Administration Give Rise to the Libertarian Party?

Although I am not in lock step with the libertarian party, I do consider myself to be "libertarian" in many of my views. In my state (new hampshire) we often elect libertarians, or libertarians who run under major party lables to our state legislature. I am also very much a federalist as you yourself seem to be, from your statement "if it is not in the Constitution then it is not for the federal government to do". What this does is push the bulk of legislative power to the individual states". this is the very cruxt of the 9th and 10th amendments to the constitution. I have been saying right along that in order to take this country back, we must do so at the state level. Our states have the power to reign in the federal government and enforce it's propper place and role. We must put far more effort in this area. We must put state governments in that stand up for our states and their people. Governors and state legislators do NOT represent the federal government, they do not defer to it, they are not subserviant to it, they do not answer to it, the EXACT OPOSITE is the case in fact. Many states have elections comming up next year. Get to know your local reps, get to know people who are considering running for sych offices. Get to know your governor and others who may be running for that office and ask your self, "who is this person going to represent? Are they going to be a governor/legislator for my state? Or are they going to be a puppet for the federal government? Do they fully understand the constitution and the limits it places on government?" Those are all questions we must begin asking ourselves and of our elected servants and those who wish to run for such offices. Again, the ONLY sure way to peacefully take back this country is through our states, the federal government does not operate or even exist with out the condoning of the states and we can only do this by insisting on state governments that abide by that philosophy. On another note, this may well be a good way to start making people realize that conservative/liberal is a false argument and choice, there is no difference in the republican and democratic parties on the libertarian/authoritarian scale, left/right is not the true difference.

My friend thought that he was a Libertarian until I read to him from their website. I just don't believe in some of their principals. But then I am neither completely a Republican or Democrat either. Although I lean more to the right with my beliefs. I am pretty much disgusted with both parties at this point and I think they need a wake up call. I would be willing to vote Libertarian to do just that.

It's difficult to say. The current trends support heroes and politics AGAINST the two main parties. It's my hope that this will mean that we'll no longer rely so heavily on the assumed importance of "parties"...and that we'll learn to elect people based upon themselves solely and what they've done...rather than who they're affiliated with. I myself adhere to no set political system, although I have a very sincere love of libertarians. So I'd like to think that if there has to be a replacement in main parties it'll be the libertarians who'll be the new top dogs. I think that if libertarians really want to undermine the power of the past two main parties, they could really do that now, if they worked at it in a frenzy of renewed fervor. I really think they could. History is a funny thing to be living, though. The current trends are astounding, unpleasant, expected, wonderful, and strange -- so you can gaurentee I'll pay attention. I'm a newsblogger, so I look for and support all new movements to challenge the current and previous order of things, for the better.

Like the commenter before me, I am not strictly Libertarian in that I don't hold to every tenet of the Libertarian party but at this point in time, they are the ones who are most strongly supporting the Constitution. Federal government has grown far beyond its intended scope and boundaries and the trend needs to be stopped. If the Republican candidates are not willing to face this most important fact, our country will continue down this slippery slope into the Nanny socialist state. The closer the left gets to socialism, the stronger the backlash uprising will be from those who don't want the US to go down that road. The left talks about extreme right-wingers, because they realize that more people are moving to center and to the right as the left goes off in directions that truly disturb the masses. Will the current administration give rise to the Libertarian Party? I hope so.

Yes I think it is time for the Rise of the Libertaians, and also Ron Paul. I also think that it's time for fascism to end.