Libertarian takeover: Thaddeus McCotter predicts a new world order for GOP - Rick Klein, Jon Ward, Richard Coolidge and Jordyn Phelps, Yahoo News:
December 16, 2014 - "Former Republican presidential candidate Thaddeus McCotter is not himself a libertarian, but the former Michigan congressman predicts an approaching libertarian takeover of the Grand Old Party.
"At least, that’s the premise of his new book, Liberty Risen: The Ultimate Triumph of Libertarian-Republicans.
"'The reality is you want to conserve what's best but you want to go forward, you want to go forward from the industrial era to the Internet age,' McCotter told “Top Line” in a recent interview. 'Government has to be reorganized for the future.'
"Though he sees the march toward libertarianism as inevitable with the rise of the millennial generation, which he sees as forcing change within the party, he qualifies that this trend is gradual and has been going on for quite some time.
"'The rise of libertarians is not something new within the Republican Party. I mean, Ron Paul actually puts that to rest, but the reality is [that] … the communications revolution is reshaping everything that we've known,' McCotter said. 'That culture tends to be more libertarian, more empowered … and eventually that culture -- and the millennials especially as they age and mature -- is going to lead to match a consumer-driven economy to a citizen-driven government.'
"Asked if Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is the GOP’s answer for channeling the energy of the libertarian movement into the mainstream Republican Party in 2016, McCotter replied: 'Well, I say we're going to have a stallion, I'm not saying it's going to be Man o' War.'"
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/libertarian-takeover--thaddeus-mccotter-predicts-a-new-world-order-for-gop-001241732.html
December 16, 2014 - "Former Republican presidential candidate Thaddeus McCotter is not himself a libertarian, but the former Michigan congressman predicts an approaching libertarian takeover of the Grand Old Party.
"At least, that’s the premise of his new book, Liberty Risen: The Ultimate Triumph of Libertarian-Republicans.
"'The reality is you want to conserve what's best but you want to go forward, you want to go forward from the industrial era to the Internet age,' McCotter told “Top Line” in a recent interview. 'Government has to be reorganized for the future.'
"Though he sees the march toward libertarianism as inevitable with the rise of the millennial generation, which he sees as forcing change within the party, he qualifies that this trend is gradual and has been going on for quite some time.
"'The rise of libertarians is not something new within the Republican Party. I mean, Ron Paul actually puts that to rest, but the reality is [that] … the communications revolution is reshaping everything that we've known,' McCotter said. 'That culture tends to be more libertarian, more empowered … and eventually that culture -- and the millennials especially as they age and mature -- is going to lead to match a consumer-driven economy to a citizen-driven government.'
"Asked if Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is the GOP’s answer for channeling the energy of the libertarian movement into the mainstream Republican Party in 2016, McCotter replied: 'Well, I say we're going to have a stallion, I'm not saying it's going to be Man o' War.'"
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/libertarian-takeover--thaddeus-mccotter-predicts-a-new-world-order-for-gop-001241732.html
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