Conflicted Libertarian

Try out this article about Len Britton, the GOP candidate in Vermont.  It’s an uphill battle against Senator Patrick Leahy but at least Vermonters will have a choice. 

He has a clever Internet ad here on his webpage.  Redstate commented on it as well. 

Britton’s position on issues like Afghanistan are promising:

I love and support our troops, especially the 1,500 Vermont National Guard soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, and I’m against putting them in harm’s way without a clear mission and strategy. I am not convinced we have either in Afghanistan, but I am convinced that native Afghan forces will never step up to protect their own homeland until our departure requires them to. Nation-building and counterinsurgency have not worked in Afghanistan to date and cost too many American lives. Meanwhile al-Qaeda gathers strength elsewhere, from Pakistan to Yemen.

On health care, another promising position:

The current bills are products of business-as-usual Washington. They’re expensive, pork-filled, and they’ll make a bad deficit worse. Starting over with a free-market focus would be far more likely to deliver Americans the medical services they need more efficiently.  Meaningful tort reform would reduce both legal and insurance costs.

This is a promising development.  New England seems to be flirting with libertarian ideals in the GOP.  The Maine GOP platform is a Ron Paul/Tea Party document.  Now we have a libertarianish candidate running in Vermont.  Could be an interesting election.

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