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The premise of this article is that a Republican is entitled to this seat and a Libertarian has no place challenging the status quo.

That kind of arrogant attitude is so contemptuous and antithetical to the American spirit.

Quit whining. No one is entitled to an office. It has to be earned.

It isn't about entitlement, it's about REALITY. Libertarians in those races had no REAL chance of winning. Voters who want their government to move in a libertarian way have to be astute enough to realize that. Those that aren't are doomed to be governed by socialists.

The premise of this article is that a Republican is entitled to this seat and a Libertarian has no place challenging the status quo. That kind of arrogant attitude is so contemptuous and antithetical to the American spirit. Quit whining. No one is entitled to an office. It has to be earned.

I agree with this sentiment. I am a die hard Republican, who would never vote for a liberatarian (I just can't go for that legalization of drugs thing), but I also realize that we live in American, and the best thing about that is the ability to vote for who we personally want in office.

In 2000 Bush lost Wisconsin by less of a margin than Buchanan votes. I hate living in a state that didn't vote for Bush, but I don't blame people for voting for whomever they wanted too.

Everybody, this is the stupidest argument in the world!!! Ed Thompson got 10% of the vote because 10% of the voters didn't want either McCallum or Doyle.

This whining sounds as bad as the whining liberals who blame Nader for President Bushs victory.

In the USA we have the right to vote for anybody (even Mickey Mouse if you want), and I for one never ever want that to change.

We complain that the African-Americans, and the Hispanics, and the Jews overwhelmingly vote for the Dems and can't think for themselves, yet we are telling the liberatarians to do the same? Sounds kind of hypocritical to me.

After having said all of that let me remind all of you that may flame away, I am a proud Republican who will probably vote a straight ticket the rest of my life, but only because it is MY choice to do so, not a bunch of people who try and scare me into it.

I personally would rather live in a Country run by Hillary Clinton-like pols for the next 100 years, than live in a Country that doesn't allow me to vote for whom I want.