However, I have no love for (L)ibertarians in general. They come here, requesting fellowship and claim common bondage. Yet their votes in Wisconsin and Washington cost two Republicans Senators the race. A pox on Losertarians.
You forget their blatant attempts to have every immigration thread moved to the Smoky Backroom by inciting flame wars.
The people who voted Libertarian were not likely to have voted for those Republicans had the LP candidates not been available and the outcome would have been unchanged. For some reason, that never seems to occur to people who make this argument.
That somehow third-party candidates cost Republicans votes and or elections has to be one of the most often repeated and most ignorant arguments on the political landscape today. It is also a singularly arrogant argument since it implies that somehow the Republican candidate had some right to those votes.
A pox on thick-headed party hacks of every stripe, I say.