I agree if they have not gone over to the crony side in their success

is that a challenge?

I understand your point. However, I don't think you can show that it works out that way. Hoover was a businessman and so was BushII they both sucked.

I can take it

LS will tell you that I am a hawk at reading titles and subject lines before commenting

lol. well...I need to know if Republicans vanished and turned into libertarians or if republicans vanish there's more liberty or..

Just curious. I wondered myself but didn't take time to read it til I saw your comment.

am I getting scolded?

I have often felt that those voting for third party candidates would do that or stay home. I'm not sure they are siphoning votes from one or the other but the point about Americans being fed up is valid. I find it harder and harder to vot FOR someone instead of just against someone.

Did you really have to post this? 😄

Obama was also a lecturer and a practicing lawyer before his political career. We can provide examples all day. It just seems, in my experience, business men have more executive experience than other professions. In politics those other professions seem to be law.

A SUCCESSFUL private sector businessman should know how to and want to walk from a bad deal. I prefer business to lawyers because businessmen SHOULD better know how to budget and make difficult decisions. Lawyers, though educated, do not always have that same experience. Maybe an entrepreneurial lawyer...

what in the sam hill does the title of this post even mean?

I'm married to one of the white hat lawyers. He thinks about philosophy and foundations in freedom non-stop. Mark Levin is a lawyer. Jefferson, Madison, Adams were all lawyers.

But many of them are cronies. Colorado Springs elected a mayor, who was a Republican, ran as a fiscal conservative, had been in the securities industry - sounds good on paper. Turned out he was a crooked crony schemer.

Yes, which is why I said if he is real

I use to buy the private sector, business person argument, but it has not worked out well in practice. Hoover was a businessman and Calvin Coolidge was a lawyer. Reagan was from Hollywood of all places and the head of a union. One of the problems with business people is they rarely understand that it is better to walk away from a bad deal.

Politics today is defined by the philosophical and intellectual battles of 20-100 years ago. Politics can only vary in very small ranges. The one exception is a crisis, but the outcome is still defined by he philosophical and intellectual battles of 20-100 years ago.

It you want radical change, then politics is unlikely to be a very useful area to spend your time.

Problem is that many 3rd party libertarian candidates are really democrats funded by democrats.

Sad but true. And to say your vote counts out of millions of votes is self delusion.

I should also note that I typically do look for successful small business owners vs lawyers. I say small business owners because they would, hopefully, not have as many political ties and all the good-ol'-boy corruption that comes from it. But again, I make most of those decisions in the primaries.

I totally agree. I'm just weary of a "Manager." I was a manager one time but was not ready to manage a state.

I'll be holding my nose with you as I take the dive tomorrow; we can vote early in Nevada.

Yep, I held my nose the last two times I voted AGAINST Obama. I was voting FOR the USA, though. For what it was worth . . . sigh.

Someone who has managed a business surely has better fiscal sense than a career politician.