I think of myself as a pragmatic libertarian, so I agree 100% with GTS.

A lot of people on here think of me as a right-winger, therefore republican. I would offer pretty much the same criticism of republicans. The problem with the religious right is that they are unwilling to make any compromises, and compromises are how things get done in a democracy. Roy Moore to me is what's wrong with republicans, taken to the extreme. And taking it to the extreme makes us vulnerable to the collectivist/redistributionist far left. I think too many republicans really don't understand what they are doing. They just see somebody like GWB who wore a cowboy hat and talked about Jesus a lot, and don't really care that he wasn't much of a conservative otherwise. When republicans are okay with a huge budget deficit, they lose me. I still think when republicans regained the house in 2011 they should immediately have passed Bismarck health care to replace Obama care, a guaranteed basic income, and either Bowles-Simpson or Domenici-Rivlin, or some combination of the best of both. That would have established them immediately as caring about the poor and also wanting to balance the budget and grow the economy. But they didn't. And they pretty much lost me when they didn't.