[Owen]

When libertarians hold 33% of the seats in a state legislature, then and only then should they be running for "national office" in US Congress and Senate races. Doing so cannot possibly be in anything but a spoiler role.

Prove the party's appeal. Then they are something other than a spoiler.

[MarkL]

Don't forget the reason for the "two party system" is that it's designed by the "two parties" to stay a "two party system."

Most people don't seem to realize that there's nothing in the founding documents of this country that gives the "two parties" any sort of a monopoly on political power. Some people I've spoken with actually remember learning something about a dual "something" in the legislature, which they believe refers to the "two party system."

And don't forget the MSM and their role in keeping outsiders out.

Mark

[mugs99]

Prove the party's appeal. Then they are something other than a spoiler.

That argument just won't fly anymore.
There are more libertarians in the Republican Party than in the Libertarian Party, but that is changing. The Republican Party is the minority party. When libertarians sit out elections, Republicans can't win.

Libertarians allied with Republicans to fight socialism and win the cold war. The Republican Party has now moved to the big government left and the cold war is over.

Republicans want the libertarian vote but ridicule libertarian philosophy. The honeymoon is over. Divorce is in the future.
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