DAVID BOAZ:

Last week I turned on NPR and heard some crazy woman ranting “We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3 a gallon gasoline. It is no accident; it is a cause and effect, a cause and effect.” Then the next morning I watched CNN and discovered that the ranting woman was Nancy Pelosi.

So it’s hard to summon up hope that libertarians might find common cause with the Democratic party.

But the Republican party doesn’t seem very inviting lately, either.

Boaz finishes on a more hopeful note than this opening suggests. Read the whole thing, part of an interesting discussion over at Cato Unbound.