Is Rob Lowe a Libertarian? “I Want the Government Out of Almost Everything.”

Well, we know that circa 1988, he was a Democrat.
He not only campaigned for Michael Dukakis but helped usher in the
modern
celebrity sex scandal after being caught with two women (one of
whom was just 16 years old) in an Atlanta hotel the night before
the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Shortly after that,
a
sex tape of Lowe in a Paris hotel surfaced (NSFW).

But as Lowe pointed out in his excellent and well-received
2011 memoir,
Stories I Only Tell My Friends, he’s changed a lot
over the past 20-plus years. As a result of those scandals, he
cleaned up his act and got his personal and professional lives
together (he’s the married father of two sons and has starred in a
string of successful shows including The West Wing,
Californication, and Parks &
Recreation).

Now he’s back with a new book,
Love Life. And he tells The New York Times that
he’s a lot more together when it comes to politics, too:

You’ve compared loyalty to a political party to
recreational drug use. You’ve been sober for several years now, so
what did you mean by that? 

I find them both highly overrated. Each day another state makes
it O.K. for my 18-year-old — any 18-year-old — to go and buy pot
like he’s buying a Pepsi-Cola, and so let’s face it: In the United
States, recreational drug use is sort of acceptable. Belonging to
one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box
are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

So what do you believe? 

My thing is personal freedoms, freedoms for the individual to
love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the
government out of almost everything.

Whole interview here.