Quote:I particularly like that he's liberal on social issues and conservative on financial ones. Meshes with my own feelings pretty well, actually.

A true libertarian will be exactly as you described in the sense that they do not regulate morality. However, being pro small government libertarians don't advocate for some 'liberal' social issues like welfare or medicare (in a liberatation world those would be all gone).  The principle is that the government should only be involved in things that actually require a government like the army, prison, making roads, etc. Almost all liberatarian candidates want to end all foreign bases and withdraw from any war in which we are the aggressors (i.e. war only for defense, NOT world policing).

 

Of course you can't just cut out social security and medicare at this point. People paid into those programs their whole life, they deserve whatever they put in back. But our government is determined to simply steal from the population by 'adjusting' consumer price index and claiming that its cheaper to live than it really is. This allows them to decrease the payments for social security without actually 'voting' against it. Similar to how inflation is actually a tax that doesn't get 'voted' on.  Anyway I could go way deep into the rabit hole there, but its not really what the topics about.

 

I think Cruz has officially emerged as the 'anti-trump' for the republicans. Only two more weeks till Trump and Cruz are the only options.

---