IT was libertarians in MT, we would have a GOP majority if not for the "losertarians".
You call them "losertarians" and expect them to vote to help your side politically.
You call them "losertarians" and expect them to vote to help your side politically.
I am so tired of this "blame someone else" BS. If the GOP had been doing their job in places like Montana, it wouldn't have mattered what the third parties did. The GOP blew the election, plain and simple. They did it because they played defense the whole way, and did a piss poor job of doing that.
Political parties have a platform FOR A REASON!!! As long as the GOP ran this as a couple of hundred individual races, with everyone from socialists like Arnold Schwarzenegger to paleoconservatives like Tancredo doing diametrically opposed agendas, all the time calling themselves "Republicans", they were almost guaranteed to lose a lot of seats.
The GOP lost because it has become feckless. It doesn't stand for anything, as a brand name, anymore. Are they for fiscal conservatism or pork for home districts? Are they for the 2nd A. or for banning weapons? Are they for aggressive tactics against terrorism or for wringing their hands over "torture"? Are they for stopping illegal immigration or for protecting cheap labor? Are they for Constitutional Constructionists on the USSC or for maintaining a 4-1-4 "balance"? Are they for reforming runaway bureaucracies like SS or are they for creating gigantic new ones, like Medicare Prescription Drugs freebies? Are they for increasing troops in Iraq, maintaining the present levels, or withdrawing? WHO THE HELL KNOWS???
Given all that, the muddled middle decided to take a flier on trying out Pepsi instead of Coke this time, because Pepsi advertised it was "better tasting".