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    destor23Adam Weinstein
    3/06/14 1:15pm

    I like this Libertarianism rebranding. Forget the Ron Paul gold bug caucus and give me the politician who respects my right to an afternoon of target shooting, an evening of high stakes poker and a midnight spent snorting coke off a hooker's ass.

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      Eli Manning stars in: Omaha! Omaha! Omaha!destor23
      3/06/14 1:23pm

      Libertarians love it when liberals fail to mention the whole "do away with the entire regulatory and welfare state and just basically go back to the way government was in 1890" part of their philosophy, and just stick to the nice sounding "legal weed and hookers" part.

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      destor23Eli Manning stars in: Omaha! Omaha! Omaha!
      3/06/14 1:59pm

      Well, when you're stoned you make all sorts of questionable regulatory and public funding choices...

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    ThidrekrAdam Weinstein
    3/06/14 1:28pm

    For context, this guy is from Alberta where the left-wing parties have little to no traction (it's complicated). And so they are so thoroughly controlled by the Progressive Conservatives that other right-wing movements tend to splinter and grow as a means of diversifying political discourse there. Many of them sprout and fade away, but one ended up taking over the federal Progressive Conservatives creating the current federal Conservative Party of Canada.

    So that being said, this is Alberta being Alberta, and this could turn into a larger movement or it could fade away altogether.

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      Jerry-NetherlandThidrekr
      3/06/14 2:21pm

      We have no Progressive Conservatives in the States; used to be we would call a Canadian like former PM Kim Campbell equivalent to a Rockefeller Republican. We have no Rockefeller Republicans anymore, either. That's why there's utter stasis in US Government - no one on the right will give an inch. And with Libertarians filling the ranks of the Republican Party, things have gotten worse, not better.

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      Upper-MiddlebrowJerry-Netherland
      3/06/14 4:36pm

      While it certainly is still nothing like the GOP in terms of scripture-based libertarian hodgepodge nonsense, our PCs are in no way whatsoever progressive (actually, the "progressive" has been unofficially dropped. It is never used to refer to the Conservatives.) They also used to be Rockefeller Republicans, but those don't exist here either. The "Rise of Conservatism" is not an American phenomenon.

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    Steve_Buscemi's_OrthodontistAdam Weinstein
    3/06/14 1:13pm

    "I want gay married couples to be able to protect their marijuana plants with guns"

    Then move to Washington State, Canada.

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      benjaminalloverSteve_Buscemi's_Orthodontist
      3/06/14 1:32pm

      As a Canadian, let me just state that you are most graciously welcome to take every last libertarian from us, Washington, Thank you and a thousand sorrys.

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      burnedoneanddonebenjaminallover
      3/06/14 1:40pm

      The "a thousand sorrys" is how I know you're Canadian.

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    benjaminalloverAdam Weinstein
    3/06/14 1:29pm

    What a troll. He'll most definitely get the bro vote in Fort McMurray, which is one of the more machismo drenched ridings in a pretty redneck province. Sorry guys, but it is. Very very strange of him to choose a green logo though, as the Greens are pretty unpopular in Tarsand territory.

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      jmv4benjaminallover
      3/06/14 2:08pm

      The Canadian Libertarian party was using a green logo before the Green Party even existed.

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      benjaminalloverjmv4
      3/06/14 2:47pm

      The Canadian Libertarian Party has been around since 1973, but never has achieved a single seat. The Green Party of Canada was officially founded in 1983, but at that time the International Green Party had already been around for decades, already using the green logo, obviously.

      The Libertarian Party of Canada has never broken 1%, not even close, and was officially removed from the list of registered political parties by elections Canada. 10 years after its founding, the party had been lapped many times over by all the younger all the parties- Party Quebecois, Reform Party, Green Party, and earned a total of 1949 votes, total, in the 1987 national election for all 8 of its candidates. Basically vampirism is more popular than libertarianism in Canadian political tradition.

      So my point is that Libertarianism never took in Canada, so whatever logo they have had has never really counted, because it's never been a part of Canadian national politics, just a regional blip. The green logo belongs to the Green Party.

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    Jerry-NetherlandAdam Weinstein
    3/06/14 1:22pm

    Hey, Albertans: Am I right that you guys want more regulation (particularly of Trans-Canada) right about now, not less? Pot and Guns and even gay marriage won't mean a thing with toxic water. The free market won't clean this up:

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      Aj_BeeAdam Weinstein
      3/06/14 1:42pm

      The guys a nutcase - libertarianism has no roots in Canada, has almost no connection to the nation's political culture. It has some pockets of support in nutcase Alberta, but that's it.

      He's also a stalwart defender of the environmental disaster better knows as the Albertan oilsands.

      He's a nothing. Moving on ...

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        Upper-MiddlebrowAj_Bee
        3/06/14 4:39pm

        He's running in Alberta, particularly in the machismo island of Fort Mac, so I wouldn't discount him so freely. I don't think libertarianism, namely, will be his strength, but I wager he'll do an okay job of convincing many of those nutcase Albertans that his giggly signs and no-fucks attitude will make for a good MP.

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      Starlifter -from the year 2014Adam Weinstein
      3/06/14 1:33pm

      I don't get why librarians are so outspoken nowadays. Used to be they had the image of being quiet and meek; that's why they became librarians in the first place.

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        Jerry-NetherlandStarlifter -from the year 2014
        3/06/14 11:25pm

        ...Never mind?

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        Starlifter -from the year 2014Jerry-Netherland
        3/07/14 12:09am

        Ding ding ding! We have a winner of the obtuse reference contest!

        A) Who is Emily Litella?

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      yourcommentAdam Weinstein
      3/06/14 1:17pm

      Less government, lower taxes, more...BEES?!

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        Jerry-Netherlandyourcomment
        3/06/14 3:04pm

        More toxic aquifers.

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        DarthTurduckenyourcomment
        3/06/14 4:08pm
        GIF
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      Jerry-NetherlandAdam Weinstein
      3/06/14 2:52pm

      What is GOB Bluth doing in Canada?

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        CoyoteLouJerry-Netherland
        3/06/14 11:15pm

        So glad you said something! That was all I could think of, and I was wondering if I was the crazy one.

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      raincoasterAdam Weinstein
      3/07/14 12:45am

      No, he is not the first libertarian to run. We had a libertarian party, but I believe it fell apart because of ego clashes.

      FYI his Huffpo bio says "Tim Moen is a Reality-Congruence Facilitator." I wonder how he'll deal with the reality of losing an election.

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