Monday's Late Night Cool Conservative Opine

Libertarian versus GOP

While I don’t as a rule look to Libertarians for the EUG Cool Conservative column, there are a few definitely worth noting for their wisdom.

Of course, here comes the EUG disclaimer: it’s a bit difficult for me to embrace the Libertarian purist such as John Stossel, Ron Paul and others because at the end of day I don’t see eye-to-eye on some pretty high-level issues, illegal immigration and border control being two of them.
However, on many issues we do agree. With this said, it’s impossible and wrong to ignore this political demographic.

So, I have decided to think outside the “glass” (yes, pun was intended) and name John Stossel as this week’s EUG Cool Conservative / Libertarian (I am just not feeling it for Ron Paul and tonight’s debate didn’t help matters). John might not fully appreciate the honor right now, but hopefully he has a sense of humor and grace to accept the honor with a grain of salt.

I heard a lot about the undoing of burdensome and loop-hole ridden regulation during tonight’s Tea Party Debate. Seriously, Michele was on fire attacking Perry for HPV vaccine executive order and left no stone unturned. And, I was also pleasantly surprised to watch Romney light up with expression and smile as he talked about Perry, creating jobs in Texas and poker. I was happy he didn’t come off as the “weird” Mormon candidate the Obama folks are trying so very hard to portray through their transparent attempt to assassinate his character. He might not be the perfect candidate, but he certainly is a better choice for leader than Obama.

All of the GOP presidential candidates did a decent job of answering the questions tonight. I only wish it had been John Stossel moderating and asking some of the questions and not Wolf.

Certainly Wolf tried his hardest on behalf of CNN (just like the last debate) to pit Romney against Perry, or everyone against Perry for that matter. Sorry, Wolf, it’s getting old.

Had Stossel been moderator, I imagine he might have repurposed and directed his recent blog post, Regulation and the Unseen, at one or all of GOP (and one Libertarian) debaters. Certainly his opine on the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill would have been poignant tonight: an epistle of approximately 2,300 pages that is so complex that Stossel charges it can’t possibly make life better for consumers. And then goes on to add,

“…Yet politicians constantly create more rules. They think they know how to manage our lives better than we do. They are ignorant and arrogant…”

Imagined or not, my guess is he would have rocked the debate floor had he moderated. For this reason, John Stossel (the Libertarian) is EUG’s Cool Conservative aka Libertarian of the week.