The Indy Star had a stub entitled Politics on the Web:
A few other useful Web sites: If you’re more interested in political spin, look at the sites of the political parties. Democrats can be reached at www.indems.org; Republicans at www.indgop.org ; and Libertarians at www.indgop.org .
Either the Libertarians have been fully co-opted by the GOP or they continue to get snubbed.
Doug,
Respect has to be earned. LP libertarians need to work on that. :D
Libertarians are just Republicans too ashamed to admit it…
Some are. Others wouldn’t go anywhere near the social conservatism that dominates the national Republican Party and which is making inroads on the Indiana Republican Party (see e.g. Eric Miller, et al.)
I have no use for the GOP, and I’m as partisan L as they come.
I have no use for the social conservative authoritarians that dominate the GOP, as Doug points out.
I have no use for the careless hawks of the GOP.
I have no use the increasing fiscal irresponsibility the GOP has come to embrace. After all, when they had the majorities in Indiana, they failed to cut budgets; likewise with their majorities at the federal level.
The GOP does actively try to lure Libertarian candidates and activists. Those who drink the kool-aid invariably find out that there is no genuine interest in liberty, but great interest in silencing a potentially dangerous competitor.
I have little use for the shoddy ‘journalism’ of the Indy Star. Proofreading, anyone?
I have decreasing patience for those who use Libertarians as a cheap joke. The other two of Indiana’s balloted parties don’t really stand for much of anything, certainly not consistently or as a matter of principle, and that somehow is basis for being judged superior to Libertarians?
No respect, indeed.