Posted on 11/05/2013 12:56:21 PM PST by RKBA Democrat
keep smoking that libertarian crack and pounding that kool aid
H/T to Philip Van Cleave at VCDL who had this to say in an earlier alert this afternoon:
“It appears a major Democrat benefactor and Obama campaign bundler, Joe Liemandt, has been making sizable contributions to the Sarvis campaign. In fact Liemandt’s PAC is the single largest independent donor to the Sarvis campaign.
Is Liemandt a stealth Libertarian?
Seems pretty unlikely - the Democrats and the Libertarians don’t have much in common philosophically speaking, but the Democrats benefit when the Republicans and Libertarians split the vote.”
DUH....
Who didn’t realize this??
Democrats have been funding Libertarians to split the R vote for a decade now.
On the Federal and State Legislator levels this has cost us HUNDREDS of seats in the last 10 years. In the 2008 election alone, I counted 13 House seats we could have won, had the L not split the R vote.
Given what has happened, how much of a difference do you think those 13 seats would have made in the Pelosi-controlled House?
“Seems pretty unlikely - the Democrats and the Libertarians don’t have much in common philosophically speaking, but the Democrats benefit when the Republicans and Libertarians split the vote.””
I’ve been known to give a few bucks to the Democrat’s spoiler.
everyone, try to not keel over from surprise on this!
Translation for low-information types:
Democrats do whatever it takes to win. Republicans play by the rules and get beat.
This is Terry-effin’-McAulliffe here...if anyone things the Clintons and the best strategists in the DNC weren’t behind this election, you’re naive. We’re seeing the opening moves in the great Hillary chess game of 2016. (We’ll be the ones rooting for the guys playing checkers...)
*””Seems pretty unlikely - the Democrats and the Libertarians don’t have much in common philosophically speaking,””*
They have a huge amount in common, not only shared politics, but a common effect on America, and a shared war against conservatism.
Sarvis is a good libertarian.
Libertarian Party Platform:
Throw open the borders completely; only a rare individual (terrorist, disease carrier etc.) can be kept from freedom of movement through “political boundaries”.
Homosexuals; total freedom in the military, gay marriage, adoption, child custody and everything else.
Abortion; zero restrictions or impediments.
Pornography; no restraint, no restrictions.
Drugs; Meth, Heroin, Crack, and anything new that science can come up with, zero restrictions.
Advertising those drugs, prostitution, and pornography; zero restrictions.
Military Strength; minimal capabilities.
Libertarians are chumps again, as usual. Obama’s backing will give Sarvis even more Libertarian votes.
DUH, indeed.
They can whine, but the GOPe will do absolutely nothing about this, nor to prevent it in the future. I am sure they don’t want to win nor be in the amjority. Not enough, anyway.
Candidates can unequivocally appeal to the base, provide a clear opposition, quit schmoozing lobbyists who would just as soon go after a dem, and expect these spoilers, run against them, and quit listening to campaign advisors
Reading the constitution is a good start.
They find a likely winner and latch on.
The libertarians are a lot closer. What is wrong with that?
Sarvis will pull more from the Left than the Right.
The gratuitous knocks against libertarianism is BS.
Nothing. Statists are idiots.
Unfortunately it would be difficult for Republicans to use a similar strategy against modern-day Democrats.
Who could we find to the left of someone like Bill de Blasio or Hillary Clinton? Maybe we could fund some sort of Jurrasic-Park type program to reanimate Lenin’s body?
So you would vote for the Democrat spoiler?
New strategy. The Obamites usually get sealed court records released that smear opponents.
Captain Louis Renault asks, “C’mon, do I really have to say it?”
Nothing really, as long you realize and accept that it is helping to elect Democrats and is in line with Democrat election winning strategy.
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