by Eric Dondero

By now many of you, especially those of you who are rightwing blogosphere junkies are aware that Dave Weigel as resigned as the "Conservative" Blogger for the Washington Post.

I cry no tears for Dave's departure. I will say he's always been friendly in his dealings with me and with this political website. Well, at least recently. But no less, I'm not sorry to see him go. Mainly because he was not in any way a Conservative.

Rather, Weigel is the perfect Leftwing Libertarian.

And ironically, because of this hub-bub, the term Leftwing Libertarian or variations of, have been spread all over the blogs.

We here at Libertarian Republican take credit for pushing these terms "Leftwing Libertarian," and "Right Libertarian," or "Rightwing Libertarian." We most certainly are the main political website representing the Right Libertarian movement.

The difference? Mainly foreign policy. Right Libertarians are Pro-Defense, and generally less skeptical and even downright supportive of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We Right Libertarians are also more tolerant of Pro-Life Libertarians, Christian Libertarians, and Libertarians personally opposed to Gay Marriage for example. We Right Libertarians tend to be more Pro-Death Penalty, and tough on Crime. And most certainly, we are much tougher on Immigration than your typical Libertarian.

Weigel represents the complete opposite view. He's stridently non-interventionist. He was an open Obama supporter in 2008 when he worked for Reason. He's been disdainful of Sarah Palin.

Thankfully, this is getting picked up. From HuffPo:

But within the Washington Post, Weigel's politics (he is a libertarian with clear progressive leanings) appeared to surprise management, some of whom assumed he was a conservative.

From VodkaPundit at PJ Media:

I’d read Weigel starting with his stint at Reason about three years back. He was always caustic, often funny, and typically cranky — an angry left-libertarian. Now, left-libertarian isn’t the most tenable position... From the moment Weigel started at the Post, it became pretty obvious that he wasn’t a libertarian of any sort, left or otherwise. And if you followed his Twitter feed, his “progressive” tilt, and open hostility towards most anyone to the right of, say, Dave Weigel, weren’t even debatable.

From E.D. Kain at the Washington Examiner:

It appears the Post either didn’t realize Weigel was not a conservative (but rather a left-leaning libertarian)

There's much, much more. Dave Weigel and "Left Libertarian," is all over the blogs right now.

Leftwing Libertarian and Right Libertarians are relatively new terms. The more they get bandied about the better for those of us on the Rightside of libertarianism. For, we are at the very apex of the Libertarian-Conservative movement.

So, in a way I guess we do owe Dave Weigel some gratitude after all.