“Erik Iverson has resigned as chairman of the Montana Republican Party.”
—-Good. He was a RINO (Republican In Name Only) anyway. The MTGOP needs men of conviction and principle, not men like Iverson who care more about popularity politics.

Roark, since you’re a libertarian/Ron Paul supporter, you have as much say in who the republicans choose as a party chairman as a democrat does – zilch.

As a libertarian, I would guess you think Erik Iverson lacks conviction and principle becasue he supports things like public education and civil rights. He understands that “efficient” government is not the same thing as “no” government, and that a laissaz-faire type of capitalism is beneficial to a few people, but destructive in the long haul to the community as a whole. He may even, heaven forbid, support things like handicap parking!

I have a novel idea. How about we try and find someone who will put the citizens of montana first? Make sure we have the basics, you know, like not the most expensive natural gas in the region (yes Northwestern Energy, I’m dissing you), fully funded schools, safe roads and bridges, things like that. It’s a strange idea for Montana, but perhaps an idea whose time has come to implement.

Roark is an Objectivist—meaning he follows the religion of a semi-crazy, self-destructive lady named Ayn Rand. Her ideas are toxic and nihilistic. In America we need to start calling bad ideas bad. We also need to be willing to call evil ideas evil. Ayn Rand and her Objectivist ideas whose religion that Roark subscribes to are evil.

the ron paul / any rand health care system is if you’re wealthy and can afford to buy your own insurance then great if not then get sick and die in the street.  We need to return to the Constitution and remember it reads “

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I’d say a more perfect union would be where people aren’t afraid that if they lose the crappy job they have they’ll become homeless. Or if they get sick they’ll die.  I don’t see where the General Welfare of the country can include all wage increases are for the wealthy only. Or where 25% of citizens don’t have access the health care.


In fact Justice, domestic Tranquility and a more perfect Union doesn’t mean every man for himself. That political philosophy is called Social Darwinism - or better know as anarachy.


Then again the clowns who have been in the White House for the last 8 years have completely forgotten that we are a nation of LAWS and OUR country is governed by a CONSTITUTION.

Until the GOP dumps the ‘religious’ right they are doomed to be a minority party. Normal Americans do not like extremism and interference in their private lives. And Simon is right, Ayn Rand was a vicious social Darwinist and her ideas are the epitome of evil.

I am gratified to see the Republican party return to the fold of the American family!!