Was Jefferson Davis libertarian?

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One of the most idiotic questions I've ever heard.

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First of all, there was no such thing as a "Libertarian" back those days. Comparision is as sensless and empty as calling, for example, Charles the Great a fascist.

Second of all, I fail to see a Libertarian supporting system like slavery.

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First of all, there was no such thing as a "Libertarian" back those days. Comparision is as sensless and empty as calling, for example, Charles the Great a fascist.

Second of all, I fail to see a Libertarian supporting system like slavery.

LOL so true.
I guess even I make that mistake sometimes (applying modern day ideology to the past).

Oh yes, remember ModerateDem post claiming Tudor England had a "welfare state"?

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First of all, there was no such thing as a "Libertarian" back those days. Comparision is as sensless and empty as calling, for example, Charles the Great a fascist.

Second of all, I fail to see a Libertarian supporting system like slavery.

LOL so true.
I guess even I make that mistake sometimes (applying modern day ideology to the past).

Oh yes, remember ModerateDem post claiming Tudor England had a "welfare state"?

Yeah that was pretty hilarious.
Why did he think that?  Because Henry the Great was boning half the female population?

Do you think ModerateDem is old enough to know what banging is?

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First of all, there was no such thing as a "Libertarian" back those days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locofocos

History fail.

Not in a modern sense. The same way you can't compare present-day socialists to their predecessors.

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First of all, there was no such thing as a "Libertarian" back those days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locofocos

History fail.

Not in a modern sense. The same way you can't compare present-day socialists to their predecessors.

I deliberately chose those three examples because they would be considered libertarians in a modern sense (especially Spooner); there were also plenty of people who might be considered "libertarians" in the context of the time (the Barnburners, Free Soilers, Bourbons etc.), as well as people who were not "libertarians" in the context of the time but would be now (Horace Greeley, for example).

Ok then, I made a mistake.

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Ok who voted yes?

1. Someone who likes to mess with polls, by voting most retarded options
2. Someone, who's a real retard

Just take your pick.

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I made this thread to mock the Libertas types.

Libertas is gone. No current poster reached his level of idiocy yet.

Why to kick a dead horse?