[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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[JohnnyZ]

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.

And there's no war on now?

I'm sure the libertarian cower-under-our-beds position on national defense would work wonders.

[FierceDraka]

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.

That's the same thing I keep trying to tell the nanny-statists around here.

But, in their hubris, they seem to delude themselves into believing that the entirety of the conservative movement consists of social authoritarians like themselves, and they can simply laugh off those of us who believe in true individual liberty (economic as well as social) come Election Day.

[JTN]

The honeymoon is over. Divorce is in the future.

For me, it's already happened.