The bilge posted in this thread along with the voter fraud in Republican primaries against Ron Paul help explain why so many stayed home.
Since libertarian Republicans are primarily focused on economics, the way to win them back would be for R's in Congress to make genuine efforts to cut spending.
The last polling data on this suggests almost 70% of “likely voters” want this to happen.
I fully expect those R's who hate libertarians will continue to push the party toward some ideally level of ideological purity.
But each time these people attack, they make it a bit harder for R's to win elections in 2014 and 2016.
I often wonder if such people are actually D's doing their best “divide and conquer” against conservatives and their would-be allies.
I fully expect those R’s who hate libertarians will continue to push the party toward some ideally level of ideological purity.
If they’d give up the legalizing every drug, legal prostitution everywhere, no holds barred porn even displayed publicly (yes, they said that on the official LP site a while ago), the entire spectrum of “gay rights” including marriage, adoption and whatever else the fags want, and kissing up to muzzies, then you might have a point. Oh, the open borders part sucks, too.
I happen to be a libertarian leaning Republican and had no problem finding my way to the polls.
I’m also a social Conservative. I have no intention of giving in homosexual “marriage”, abortion, or any other Conservative value to gain the “youth” vote.