The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Glenn Beck and the Leave Us Alone Coalition

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Glenn Beck and the Leave Us Alone Coalition:

In an otherwise thoughtful and insightful post about what he saw on the Mall last weekend, Nick Gillespie makes the odd assertion that, despite being 'in some ways... proto-libertarian' '[t]he organizers and the attendees are not part of the Leave Us Alone coalition.'

The term 'Leave Us Alone coalition' was coined by Grover Norquist as a discription of the coalitional structure of the right. The idea is that gun owners, economic conservatives, homeschoolers and so forth can support one another's goals because the common strand is a desire to have less government intervention in their lives, whereas the left is structured around a 'Takings coalition' that seeks to divide up government resources amongst themselves."