I believe that the following excerpt is very true.
Libertarianism appears to be very popular these days, especially among Republicans who wish to pretend to be anti-big government and yet are ashamed of eight years of huge government deficit and interference in personal life under W.
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I don’t get it, if they’re ashamed of Bush, doesn’t that mean they don’t support him and his big government policy? Is this author trying to say that once you registered with one party, you can’t change to a different party when the party you register for no longer do what they say they would do? BTW, here are 2 data points, my coworker and I were both life long democrats until 2008. We both are now registered Libertarians.