Is TX Governor Candidate, Debra Medina, a Libertarian?
The question is: Is GOP grass-roots activist, Debra Medina, Texas Governor hopeful a Libertarian? The answer to this question is not so simple as a yes or no.
In America, it is well accepted that we operate in a two party system. Republican and Democrat. However, there is a litter of other parties. Libertarian, Constitutional, Socialist, Green, etc. Among members of the Republican party, many will define themselves as Christian, Pro-Life, Libertarian, or Constitutional. These self-definitions are merely dialects. When someone accuses Mrs. Medina of being a Libertarian, they are accusing her of being a member of the Libertarian Party. To this, she can simply answer… no.
The other question, of course, is whether or not Mrs. Medina is a Libertarian Republican (the dialect.) To this one may look at our party’s historical leaders and ask whether or not it is possible to be both. We once had a President named Ronald Reagan. About 90% of the Republican Party loves him. Many wish he could come back from the grave and lead the party out of the mess we’ve gotten in.
On July 1, 1975 in Reason Magazine, Mr. Reagan said the following:
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
We find that, according to president Reagan, not only is Libertarian an acceptable dialect of conservatism and belong in the Republican party, LIBERTARIANISM IS CONSERVATISM!!!
So it comes down to semantics. The fact of the matter is: Yes. Debra Medina is a Libertarian dialect Republican (read Reagan conservative.) However, she does not belong to the Libertarian party, she’s been a grass roots activist in the Republican party for 2 decades. In fact, she is the former Warton County Republican Party Chair! The question then is, the people who do not support Mrs. Medina, citing that she is a Libertarian (which we now understand is true conservatism) what do they believe? What dialect of the Republican party are they?
Let us look at who these “Medina haters” support:
Rick Perry:
Weak on state sovereignty: LIBERAL
Big on government spending: SOCIALIST
Increases taxes: SOCIALIST
Disregard for parent’s and individuals rights: STATIST
Uses the Texas Enterprise Fund to squelch competition and free markets while rewarding political friends: SOCIALIST/CORPORATIST/CORRUPT
Purged conservative judge, Steve Smith, and replaced with a… LIBERAL
So it seems for many Republicans in 2010 that is better to support a Liberal, Statist, Socialist, Corrupt, Globalist Republican than a Libertarian Republican as defined by our hero Ronald Reagan.
Perhaps there is more than meets the eye with these Medina-haters. For they either do not look at the actions and principles of their candidate, or they are truly Socialist/Liberal/Globalist Republicans themselves.
Making the new question: “How does a Reagan-loving Republican not support Debra Medina when the contrast between her and her opponent is so stark?”
To find out what to which dialect of the Republican party you belong, use the facebook app: http://apps.facebook.com/advocatesquiz/
Then decide whether you want to support the “Libertarian Conservative” or the “Liberal.”
