We lost the US Senate in 2000 when Cantwell defeated Gordon in Washington State because 2% of the electorate refused to vote for the lesser of 2 candidates and voted Libertarian. Cantwell won by about 2000 votes, many of those probably fraudlent in the King County DemonRat pile of bile. How many of those 2% would have voted for a Liberal like Cantwell??? None!!!!! That loss tossed the Senate into a 50-50 tie and allowed Carbuncle Jeffords to jump ship and give the Senate to the DemonRats. How much damage was don in that 2 years???? what was lost during that time?? I wonder how many of those principled Libertarian voters would have done differently later. we didn't leap into the mess we are in and we will not leap out. I think the "I will not vote for the lesser of 2 evils" idea is worse than not voting and a potentially catastropic in a close election.
And now that we have the Senate back, what marvels of conservative brilliance has issued forth from that body?
NONE!
Don't blame the libertarians for the lack of a worthy candidate. Offer the voters a clear choice, not clones and dem lites as candidates. Blur the lines and lose. Did the GOP learn anything from that lost election? If not, why not?