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I think the item that did it was:

Say what you will of the Libertarians (and I'm not one, BTW). But insisting that there are only two parties - and that your own is inherently "good" - smacks of stagnancy and short-sightedness. Proprietor of this joint though you are, you can't deny that if both major parties haven't run out of steam already, they're about to. And I ain't calling anyone a fool but they're foolish to keep insisting that voting any single party across the board is the best hope for America. Both major parties are corrupted by power - they exist only for power - and there's no justifying a substitution of one for the other.

In post # 557 in The Democratic Party is Beyond Corrupt thread

I happen to agree with Darth. The Republican hierarchy is getting to be as corrupt as the Dems. If the Libertarians gained power, it would corrupt them too. That's why the founders tried to limit the size and power of the federal government, in order to limit the amount of corruption that would happen

Thanks for pointing that out.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton

Thus the need for a government constitutionally empowered to do a limited number of legitimate things. He struck me as an ex-Democrat, which is something this country needs more of.

With all due respect to the Dark Lord of the Sith, that is not entirely the case. In Britain as in America, we have a situation in which one party bases itself on the aggregation of power, believing itself to be wise enough to sit in government buildings and dictate to the rest of us how we are to live, what we are able to say, what schools we can pick and so on.

It is necessary that the socialists who wish this are turned back, and feeble, faulty and faithless the opposition can be, it needs to be supported to the hilt. We conservatives engage in too much petty squabbling about purity of ideology to win this battle. But it is this battle upon which we should be focused.

Regards, Ivan