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I meant to write about this back in May. Why yes, yes it is now July.

This past weekend at a South Carolina Republican convention, Senator Lindsey Graham adamantly defended supporting those who choose political expediency over substance. "We're not going to build [the Republican Party] around libertarian ideas," he told his audience. "[Ron Paul] is not the leader of this Party," he emphasized.

In his speech, Senator Graham noted that those who don't think winning matters should head for the Party's exits. (video here)

Winning. Apparently, that's what is most important to Graham. (And Specter.)

South Carolina's junior Senator, Jim DeMint, spoke after Graham, commenting about the Senate that he, "[w]ould rather have 30 Republicans who believe in the principles of limited government and free markets and free people than 60 Republicans who have no beliefs at all."

Well done, DeMint.

And now I will quote Ronald Reagan:

"If you analyze it, I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."

"I have been doing my best to try to revitalize the Republican Party groups that I've spoken to, on the basis that the time has come to repudiate those in our midst who would blur the Republican image by saying we should be all things to all people in order to triumph... I've been urging Republicans to raise a banner and put the things we stand for on that banner and don't compromise, but don't try to enlarge the party by being all things to everyone when you can't keep all the promises. Put up a banner and then count on the fact that if you've got the proper things on that banner the people will rally round."

Individual liberty, constitutionally limited government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy. -- Campaign for Liberty