Libertarian Party Celebrates "Record-Setting" Candidates!

Libertarian Party ^ | November 6, 2002 | George Getz

[Steven W.]

this is a joke, right?

did they win any dogcatcher races?

what about the races they threw to the RATs, shouldn't they take more credit for those and what they "did" for our union?

[Howlin]

Thanks. I needed a good laugh tonight!

[Drango]

Libertarians are worse than the French...

[VaBthang4]

[Howlin]

[Texaggie79]

thank you for flying Church of England

[Howlin]

So my choice is "or cake?"

[VaBthang4]

~Grin~

[RJCogburn]

I'll repeat my comments posted on this similar article which was posted earlier on the campaign 2002 section:


Pretty bad news if you are a Libertarian.

Especially Carla Howell, who had name recognition, had done better in her two previous statewide campaigns, and had by some accounts a pretty good campaign organization and the repeal of the state income tax referendum behind her.

While libertarian ideas have a mixed success but seem to have gained overall in the past couple of decades, Libertarian Party success has been scant and usually fleeting and there seems little reason for future optimism, IMO.

[Nonfaction]

In Massachusetts, Michael Cloud won 19% of the vote in a two-way race against incumbent Democrat John Kerry. It was the best U.S. Senate result for a Libertarian in party history, and the best by any third-party candidate in a U.S. Senate race since 1932, according to Richard Winger, publisher of Ballot Access News.

Mr. Winger is wrong. Jim Buckley was elected to the Senate in 1970 on the Conservative Party ticket in New York, defeating a Democrat and a (liberal) Republican.

[B Knotts]

In Massachusetts, voters rejected, by a surprisingly narrow margin, a sweeping proposal to eliminate the state's income tax.

The proposal, called Ballot Question 1 and sponsored by LP gubernatorial candidate Carla Howell's Committee for Small Government, lost by a 53% to 47% margin, shocking political pundits who predicted it would lose by 20 percentage points or more.

Wow. Irrelevant minor candidates aside, that's pretty impressive in Taxachusetts.

[Poser]

And in South Dakota, the G*d Da***d Libertarians kept the Republicans from winning the Senate Seat. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.

[The Irishman]

Few of the Lib votes were for the Lib Party, they were against the others and a voter had no place else to go. Sorry.

[sinkspur]

"His opponent mailed a hit piece using our platform against James," said local activist Tim Hagan, explaining the disappointing results.

Kinda says all that needs to be said about the Libertarian Party.

[Drango]

And in South Dakota, the G*d Da***d Libertarians kept the Republicans from winning the Senate Seat. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.

You can thank the Libertarians (and Jeffords) for the dems controlling the Senate for the last 2 years also. In the '00 Senate race the Libertarin scum in Washington State sucked enough votes to hand the election to the Democrat....

[Clint N. Suhks]

Thanks a lot Liberaltarian Losers!

You lost South Dakota for us…. Nice going! When are you going to realize you’re irrelevant? Now take your legalized drugs, whore houses, gay marriage and the rest of your stupid ideas and go crawl back under the rock from whence you came.

[FF578]

And the liberaltarians gave Johnson the win over Thune.

[toenail]

Vote-welfare proponent?

[Spunky]

did they win any dogcatcher races?

Yep! and they won coroner too.