FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 10, 2011
Contact: Wes Benedict, Executive Director
E-mail: wes.benedict@lp.org
Phone: 202-333-0008 ext. 222
Libertarians at CPAC present Republican
Wall of Shame
WASHINGTON - At their booth at the Conservative Political Action
Conference, the Libertarian Party is displaying a "Republican Wall of
Shame." (View low-res JPG or high-res
PDF.)
These are the prominent Republicans featured on the Wall of Shame:
- Mitt Romney, supporter of the RomneyCare socialized medicine
program in Massachusetts.
- Mike Huckabee, who as a governor supported so many tax increases
that the Club for Growth labeled him a "liberal."
- George W. Bush, who had a long track record of supporting
big-government programs and regulations, and who once said, "I've
abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."
- Newt Gingrich, who often supports big-government intrusion and
who said about global warming, "The evidence is sufficient that we
should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon
loading in the atmososphere."
- John McCain, who while running for president famously suspended
his campaign to rush back to Washington to vote for bailouts.
- Paul Ryan, the House Budget Commmittee chairman who voted for the
Medicare expansion in 2003, the No Child Left Behind Act, the TARP, GM
and Chrysler bailouts, and even ethanol subsidies.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor. The caption
reads "No comment necessary."
- The "mystery Republican president." He signed many massive
spending bills, and during his administration, federal spending was the
largest percentage of GDP in post-WWII history. (His shameful record
might be broken by the Obama administration.)
Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict commented, "Our goal
at CPAC is to reach out to libertarians who have been misled into
thinking of conservatism as a small-government ideology. In fact,
conservatives just want their own version of big government, as
we pointed out last year."
Benedict continued, "We've already heard some talk about the Republican
'three-legged stool.' My view is, Republicans are wrong on foreign
policy, they're wrong on social policy, and they're lying hypocrites on
economic policy. Their stool has no legs."
Wes Benedict is attending CPAC and can be reached on his cell phone at
512-659-8896.
The LP is America's third-largest political party, founded in 1971. The
Libertarian Party stands for free markets, civil liberties, and peace.
You can find more information on the Libertarian Party at
our website.
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