A lot of people might not remember when Markos made the case for bringing more people with libertarian tendencies into the Democratic Party. I thought reading what he wrote was interesting, given the recent discussions over Jane Hamsher's article at the Huffington Post.
Markos wrote an article for the Cato Institute back in 2006 making the case for the "libertarian Democrat":
It is the case for the libertarian Democrat that has created much discussion and not a small amount of controversy when I first introduced the notion in what was, in reality, a throwaway blog post on Daily Kos on a slow news day in early June 2006.
But that post—as coarse, raw, and incomplete as it was—touched a surprising nerve...
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