"Wdtabor" wrote in message
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There are many more who have a basic libertarian viewpoint in economic
issues,
but they are big government advocates when it comes to controling
morality.
They need to be made to understand that you cannot pick an choose your
freedoms. You cannot have economic freedom and property rights without
also
having sexual and lifestyle freedom. Once they learn to trust their fellow
citizens to make their own personal choices, they can then better persuade
them
to embrace economic freedom.

The problem may also be related to their ties to the Church. Since this
relationship brings them votes - in many cases enough to decide elections -
it will be hard to wean them from this.

Then there is the matter of fiscal responsibility, which everyone in
Washington seems to have abandoned.

With Dems, it is another matter. Most of them are simply socialists and
collectivists and are beyond redemption. But some are in the Dem party
based on
some single issue where they feel the GOP threatens them. I have had great
success in recruiting Libertarians from the Gay and Lesbian business
community
in the artsy Ghent section of Norfolk. They were economic libertarians all
along, they just fled to the Dem party because it was seen as more
permissive
of their lifestyle than the GOP. Once they understand that they don't need
permission if they have freedom, they are converted.

I believe many more than you suspect fall into this category. And, in this
area, there are a good many "Republicans" who got fed up with a single issue
in the Democratic camp. What I am saying is that there are a lot of people
close to the fence in both parties.