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Palin vs. Paul

Luke Walker
Apr 20, 2010 at 7:35 PM
By Luke Walker

Here's an interesting article from Politico about the division of support among the Tea Party crowd. Personally, I am no fan of Sarah Palin and the hyper-evangelical social conservatives that tend to throw her their support. However, looking past the social side, these supporters will gladly throw support to the libertarian camp on fiscal issues. There seems to be a tendency within libertarian circles to remain very hostile to those who may have a difference of opinion and I think many political bridges have been burned unnecessarily because of this.

If we want to continue to grow our movement we must be willing to work with those who may not see eye to eye on every issue with us. While I disagree with many of the social conservative points of view, I would still contend that it remains vitally important to forge alliances with those individuals who can get behind us on bringing fiscal sanity back to an out of control federal government.

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If we want to continue to grow our movement we must be willing to work with those who may not see eye to eye on every issue with us.

I couldn't agree more with this statement. I must say that I was guilty for a little of while of alienating people that we should be working with and using divisive language in doing so. I have since reconciled many of those situations.

We must remain principled and unwavering in what we believe in, but we must be willing to work with whomever necessary on points of agreement in order to accomplish our goals as a movement. Never compromise, but willing to work with a variety of people to get things done.

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Submitted by Brenden Boudreau on April 21, 2010.

It should be the goal of every liberty activist to learn how to spread the message of liberty by building bridges. Find things in common with other people, don't aggravate differences.

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Submitted by Will Ramsey (not verified) on April 21, 2010.

I admire the merits of this article but if we are willing to reach out to the palin-types due to our fiscal similarities, we must also be active in reaching out to the liberals due to our social similarities -- if we only reach out to the right we are going to be characterized as just another wing of the republican party and not a unifying group based on the principles of liberty 

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Submitted by Brian (not verified) on April 21, 2010.

Very true, Brian. I couldn't agree more.

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Submitted by Brenden Boudreau on April 21, 2010.