The Republican isn't automatically more libetarian. Is a trillion dollars corporate welfare that has created 10 million-strong millionaire welfare recipient libertarian? Is the fact that since 2001, out of all the federal debt since then that Obama has been president for 20% of that time and is responsible for only 6% of that debt and that McCain supported continuing Bush's programs that caused 94% of that debt make McCain or Bush or libertarian than Obama or Kerry? Grammar's very akward, but you get the picutre. Are abortion bans and constitutional amendments regulating the nature and position of homosexuality in American jurisprudence and culture libertarain? Are medical research funding regulations that specifically fund some research and not others based on reasons that have nothing to do with saving the taxpayer's money, scientific economy or the future of healthcare delivery libertarian? Are medicare perscription purchasing plans that cost more than Obama's universal mandate and public exchange program libertarian? Jesus H. Christ. Now, Obama definitely is all about the Goverment being involved in the making of the American existence but when McCain or Bush or Palin or Romney say any different, you know that they are lying.
All this is relative. In truth, very few of these men were 'libertarian' in any sense, and fewer still actively campaigned as one.
1896/1900: Both unlibertarian
1904: Alton Parker
1908/12: William Howard Taft
1916: Charles Evans Hughes
1920: Warren Harding
1924: Calvin Coolidge
1928: Al Smith
1932: Franklin Roosevelt (bear in mind he campaigned on a pledge to balance the budget)
1936: Both unlibertarian
1940: Wendell Wilkie, barely
1944: Both unlibertarian
1948: Thomas Dewey
1952: Adlai Stevenson
1956: Adlai Stevenson
1960: John F. Kennedy, barely
1964: Barry Goldwater
1968: All unlibertarian
1972: George McGovern
1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: Jimmy Carter
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: Michael Dukakis, barely
1992: Bill Clinton, barely
1996: Bob Dole
2000: Both unlibertarian
2004: Both unlibertarian
2008: Both unlibertarian
I'll go with that...
