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Politics

Lindsey Graham: "I am not a libertarian!"

Matt Welch | 5.18.2009 1:58 PM

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Watch the South Carolina senator and John McCain BFF rant against Ron Paul and the libertoids at the recent South Carolina GOP convention, claiming (accurately, one supposes) that "we're not gonna build this party around libertarian ideas."

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

PoliticsLibertarian History/PhilosophyRon PaulJohn McCainConservatism
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