Last night while waiting for my friends to pay their tab at the bar I met this guy and we started talking about politics. He told me he was a Libertarian and voting for Bob Bar.

I explained to him that I appreciate Bob Barr and that I think that Nader, Barr, Ron Paul all would make great presidents but I was voting for Obama. He became extremely upset by this.

I started by giving him the standard lesser of two evils argument and he gave me some reasons why he believed them to be failed and that he thinks that Republicans are more like Libertarians than Democrats.

Now I was drunk and asked him to explain to me at least 3 times why Republicans are more like Libertarians than Democrats and why and the only answer he could give me (that i remember) is that Democrats take away rights from people and that voting Democratic is saying that I want as much government intervention as possible such as censorship and that Obama is basically a Socialist and a Communist. And let me just say this guy was getting heated and twice he actually pushed me but luckily I am a very laid back guy and just laughed and told him to back off.

But I still don’t understand this argument. Any Libertarian insight would be great?