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Why do libertarians eat their own?

No, I'm not talking about whacko's like Eric Dondero. He's been discredited for so long that he's irrelevant and believes in limited government to about the same extent as does Hillary Clinton.

I'm talking instead about important libertarian organizations like the Cato Institute which seems to have a problem giving Ron Paul a fair shake. (Check out the May 4 podcast by Michael Tanner and his comments here, and to a lesser extent, the May 16 podcast here in which David Boaz implies that Paul's candidacy has "imploded."

I'm not saying that any organization or think tank that leans libertarian has to embrace everything Ron Paul has to say, but the fact is that if anyone at Cato really cares about the size and scope of government, their first priority needs to be preventing war in Iran and getting our troops out of Iraq, and soon.

Ron Paul is the only conservative candidate that also opposes the war and supports the limited government version Cato espouses. The rest of the Republican candidates (Giuliani in particular) haven't got a clue about the interplay between constant war and the growth of government.

Hopefully the folks at Cato will recognize that right now foreign policy is the most important battle being waged by libertarians at the moment. Only time will tell.

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