LOL!!! Nader says the same thing.
The fringers are not part of the debates for the same reason children are not allowed to drive cars.
you smell fear? what your fringe group is getting excluded because no one wants to see them getting embarrased by the candidates? what?
"I smell fear. Seriously. Where does this kind of attack come from? Both parties fear the libertarian party far more than they do any of the others, including those who have had some limited success in the past (reform, green)."
Then you better check your deoderant. Seriously.
Listen, I'd like the libertarian party to become more popular. The country and the republican party need more libertarian principles to help it move back towards the constitution.
However, the party in its current state is a joke. Remember harry browne? The only person in election 2000 with LESS charisma than joe lieberman??? A man that couldn't lead a horse to water if he was on an island???
Second, the libertarian party's position on things like immigration and national security are a joke. I wouldn't trust them to secure my yard for a cookout, let alone the country.
You may get some jollies thinking both parties fear the libertarian party, but right now they're little more than a nuisance to them. Sad but true. Their leadership is plain incompetent and they don't know how to build a party. As a result, the expansion of libertarian princples are withering on the vine.
GWB gets up every morning and worries about how he will counter the LP's proposal to:
If the libertarian party ever pulls more than 3-4% of the vote, then you might smell fear. What you're smelling now is indifference.
Come to New Hampshire with the Free State Project, and we'll see if we can make that happen.