[hscott]

I enjoyed talking to you but I have a question about your screen name. Back in the 60s I was a student at U. Texas Austin. Wonder Warthog was big then at UT and I assumed it was just local to Austin. Do you have any connection with that?

[Malcolm]

Since the LP can't win, and since most, if not all, of their votes come otherwise Republican voters, (LOL, can't call an LP voter a conservative), the LP is by definition, a spoiler party. The best this that can be done is to go to the Louisiana system, where everyone runs in the election, and if no one gets at least 50% of the vote, a run off is held between the 2 topmost votegetting candidates, and the spoilers can't really spoil anything under those conditions. Whether the runoff or the "primary" is held on the traditional Tuesday in Nov does not matter to me, just some device that forces the winner to collect at least 50% of the vote, instead of there being a 60%-70% of a non-Dem vote, yet the Dem gets elected with a minority of the vote, and that courtesy of the LP. Why LP voters do not realize this is a mystery to me, but just because they are ignorant of this, plus many other things, (LOL, that a Dem = Republican, and other such nonsense), doesn't mean that conservatives have to live under Dem rule without a fight. Believe me, the LA open primary/election will solve many problems, and the LP is not a solution in any way, shape, form, or fashion.....