If you would have read what I actually wrote, I said liberals could identify with Libertarians on SOCIAL ISSUES, which is what you just posted about. Conservatives can identify with Libertarians on the founding principles, the Constitution, and economic ideas.

The idea that liberals, who favor big government, and Libertarians, who favor very small government, are anywhere near each other on the political scale is ludicrous. I don't have to ask the Cato Institute. I already know. I used to be a member of the Libertarian party.

If you need more proof, look at who the Libertarians ran as their presidential candidate in 2008. It was Bob Barr, former REPUBLICAN congressman. In 1988, the Libertarians ran Ron Paul, who is a REPUBLICAN congressman. The Libertarians will NEVER run a liberal as their candidate.

I think you should go to the Libertarian party link I provided at the end of my post and read it.

You guys call yourselves libertarians, but you are merely angry conservatives that no longer have a say because of your backwards thinking. If you guys are all such true libertarians, why the outrage over gay marriage? Why the outrage on immigration? Libertarians? Please.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

The Dept. of Education should definitely go.

I was right about where you were on the test, maybe one tick to the right.

The Tea Parties most definitely have a message. If you want to find out what it is, go to one, instead of taking the media's word for it. The media is lying.

Most conservatives can identify with much of the Libertarian platform. Liberals usually only identify with some of the Libertarian social policy.

I actually think that the Tea Parties might be a good thing for this country. Maybe mobilize our citizens to stop drinking the Kool-Aid of the main parties? And let's face it, both sides are serving it. I hope that, even if the Tea Parties don't result in a new party being formed, giving us a different choice than we currently have, maybe they'll get the attention of both citizens who vote *and* the major parties. Maybe, lol.

Just a note: Did you know that 1/3 of our industrial base has left the country since the 90's. Thanks Bill for not standing up to BushI and pushing through our demise. Good Job!

You guys still insist the Tea Parties were grassroots originated, don't you?

I do agree with what you are saying about disgust with both parties. I see both parties, because of our campaign finance system, as simply agents of big money. But ideologically, there's a big difference in the two parties, that can't be ignored.

I thought Ron Paul would do better than he wound up doing…..and I think the Tea Parties have a Ron Paul campaign feel to them. But unlike Paul rallies, the Tea Parties lack a comprehensible message, at least so far.

1. Scale down the IRS and go to a personal consumption tax and a flt income tax. It would be scaled to take in 50% or less of the current tax revenue.

2. Eliminate the Dept of Education. No more grants for colleges. The grants artificially create a market for the high tuition costs. Without the grants, the colleges would need to drop tuition to meet enrollment goals. Every state can send the top educator to a yearly conference to determine education standards. No feds needed.

3. Eliminate federal welfare. The states would need to pick up the slack.

4. Combine the Commerce and State Departments to reduce costs. One under-sec would run foreign relations, and one would run foreign commerce agreements.

5. Dept of Agri – eliminate any energy programs from the dept. Focus on rural and agri development only. No land preservation or overlap with other depts.

6. Dept of Energy – roll agri renewables into the dept.

7. Dept of Interior – move all energy programs into the dept of energy. This is a parks and preservation dept only.

You get my point. There is enormous amount of duplication and misappropriation in just the Executive branch.

Did you watch Glenn Beck talking about our governmental system with the recent student where he says there is no difference in Dems and Reps? I got a bit excited watching him do that as it looks so much like I see the whole thing, also. Both parties are moving toward more totalitarian and there is little difference.

The part I liked best was how close to anarchy he said the Articles of Confederation were and so on. His words about this will be spread at the July 4 Tea Parties as those people there were very interested in what he was saying.

Did you hear the young, black woman, mother talking about not being represented in the CBS poll about supporting Obama. She said she wasn't in either the 96% that support him or the 4% that don't care. She should be the poster woman for the Tea Party people in that she is black and wants less government control. I'll bet the REV won't like her way of speaking.