The State of the Union address last night included what pundits call "raw meat for the President's base." But I did not see one line that could be considered raw meat for a libertarian. The closest might have been the sentence about privatizing Social Security. Against that, we had drug testing of kids, government as marriage counselor, etc.

I know that libertarians are a much bigger presence on the Net than in the electorate. But Bush basically did to libertarians last night what Iowa caucus-goers did to the Howard Dean campaign. I don't think this was a good week for Net-heads in either party.

UPDATE: The point about Bush blowing off the libertarian wing was also made by John Hood.