This is exactly why I left the Liberterian Party. The Party always had the excuse “we pull as many voters from Democrats as Republicans”, but it was always a lie.
I got tired of enabling big government leftists by keeping much better candidates from winning.
The real issue, though, is getting new media. The issue is not so much the parties as the MSM.
I’m not in the LP, and I’m not talking about who is drawing voters from where. I’m pointing out that if you blame the voters for not liking your candidates you’re making a mistake. That’s what the dems did in 2002 and 2004, blamed the voters, said they “couldn’t understand the message”, we of course made fun of them, said the voters understood just fine. We were right then, and what we said then is just as true today. If the voters don’t want to vote for your candidates that’s not the voters’ fault, that’s your candidates’ fault.
I wish there had been better candidates, there weren’t, and there aren’t. We’ve run mostly libs with Rs after their name in this century. Not gonna stop leftists big government by blindly voting for the R even if they say all the same things as the D.
Actually at this point I think the issue is the parties. The parties are obsessed with power, they don’t really have agendas or goals or beliefs anymore. They just want numbers and power, they want to be in charge. Every couple of years they throw together slogans, pretend they’re vastly different from each other, but when you look at how they actually govern there isn’t that much. How many of Obie’s signature pieces did McCain vote for, and yet during the election they insisted they were as different as night and day.