[wasp69]

bump for later reading.

[Dog Gone]

Russo, whose films have won three Golden Globes, believes he can get a million voters to contribute $100 each.

Highly doubtful.

[dighton]

“George Bush talks about the "Axis of Evil." I am much more afraid of the four pillars of Fascism ... Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft.”

-- Joke-candidate Aaron Russo.

[fishtank]

I like Medved's name for this party:

Losertarians.

[Barlowmaker]

Russo, whose films have won three Golden Globes, believes he can get a million voters to contribute $100 each.

Unlikely. Being a freeloader carping on the sidelines is what Libertarianism is all about.

The LP garnered less than 100,000 votes in 2000, and this clown thinks he can get 1 million people to part with $100? Sure.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Most everyone I know who voted for Bush in 2000 is disgusted with him.

However, one of the biggest reasons is his cuddling up to Fox and failing to notice the fact that we are under attack from Mexico.

The Libertarians advocate open borders.

How stupid is that?

[hosepipe]

I'm a Libertarian registered as a republican think both parties are loosers and am voting for Bush who I detest.. Why ?.. No other intelligent choice.

[You Dirty Rats]

Vote for 3rd party = hanging chad = dead money

[cartoonistx]

Libertarians: Open borders wackos, Potheads and their enablers, Anarchists with money, Isolationists!

Not a real winsome platform committee if you ask me.

[RicocheT]

In...Wisconsin, the 2002 Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Ed Thompson garnered about 185,000 votes, a startling 10.5 percent.

Ed Thompson was and is an idiot. Exceeded only by the 185,000 voters who confused his name with Tommy Thompson, our beloved former governor who had stepped down to go to Washington and work for President Bush.

[Tamzee]

More divide and conquer the right garbage from the Bush-haters at CBS. Let's see how many here ask CBS how high they should jump?

[skeeter]

When you wish upon a star...

No wonder CBS is dead last in the news department.

[CWOJackson]

No threat here. Both the LP and the CP are spouting the same anti-war drivel...defeatists.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

While Democrats rally around their nominee, the base of the Republican Party is showing some signs of fragmentation.

This is the current mantra of the liberal media.

They are hoping if it is repeated frequently that enough conservatives will believe it and not vote for Bush.

[LincolnLover]

I don't disagree with Bob Novak all that often, but I think he's way off on his assessment of a 2008 nominee being from the "left". GW ran right of center and won, and his party picked up seats in the mid-term election. If the President loses this November, I think it's fair to say it is due to failures in Iraq, not to people disagreeing with his conservatism in general. For example, I doubt someone would give, "Although the economy is roaring and I have a good job, I just don't know about all this tax cutting business" as a reason for voting against GW Bush.

Which "moderate" Republican could mount a serious race in a party dominiated in the primaries by very conservative voters? I rest my case.

[LincolnLover]

I don't disagree with Bob Novak all that often, but I think he's way off on his assessment of a 2008 nominee being from the "left". GW ran right of center and won, and his party picked up seats in the mid-term election. If the President loses this November, I think it's fair to say it is due to failures in Iraq, not to people disagreeing with his conservatism in general. For example, I doubt someone would give, "Although the economy is roaring and I have a good job, I just don't know about all this tax cutting business" as a reason for voting against GW Bush.

Which "moderate" Republican could mount a serious race in a party dominiated in the primaries by very conservative voters? I rest my case.

[white trash redneck]

I think a libertarian president would be fantastic.

However, it's not going to happen in 2004. The only two candidates with a chance to win are Kerry and Bush, and a libertarian who casts a vote for a third party candidate is casting a vote for the candidate who favors higher taxes, more gun control regulation, more environmental regulation (the list goes on and on) - John Kerry.

[deport]

“I may be very wrong but I would be absolutely stunned if [the Libertarians] turned into anything of any consequence,” said Cook.

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I suspect Cook has it nailed fairly well... In 2000 outside of the two major parties only three candidates got more than 100,000 votes... they were:

Nader---2,882,728
Buchanan--448,991
Brown-----386,064

This year the Reformers have no candidate other than in some states they've accepted Nader.... Brown isn't running for the Libertarians and Nader isn't running as the Green Party but rather as an Independent