Thereby demonstrating once again that Libertarians have no grasp of practical politics. This is elementary stuff -- like having enough people in a state congressional district to actually elect somebody.
I did like this, though: This practice, he said, "would allow us to have direct access to the Statehouse. We could run people who are Libertarians and they could also get the Republican nomination and pick up Republican voters and, of course, the same thing could be done with Democrats."
This is straight out of the Lyndon LaRouche playbook. Pretend to be an R (or D) long enough to grab their votes. Pretty cowardly, but a tacit admission that even in NH they're unlikely to elect Libertarian Party candidates.
Actually, it is straight out of the Republican and Democrat playbooks. They are the ones who wrote the NH elections laws that permit it, and they were the ones who first exploited multi-party nominations as a technique to get elected. It's been going on for years there, and nobody makes a secret of what party they actually belong to.
But no moreso than the grudging adoption of Libertarian platform planks by the other parties to take the wind out of the sails of Libertararian's offering an alternative to *business as usual.* I suspect there'll be more common cause with Republicans that Democrats, but whether the Libs, or more likely, a seperate political coalition pieced together from FSP migrants, disaffected members of longterm residents from both of the other major parties, and younger first-time voters [many recently returned from Iraq/Afghanistan] and others evolve into a statewide power will depend entirely on what they can offer.
I'm neither Libertarian nor libertarian [not a librarian, either!] but I figure they'll make okay neighbors. And if not political partners, maybe political allies.
Members of the group would likely settle across the state since they will not be required to live in any particular region.
Thereby demonstrating once again that Libertarians have no grasp of practical politics. This is elementary stuff -- like having enough people in a state congressional district to actually elect somebody.
The choice of *which state* is going to play a large part in porcupine flocking in particular electoral districts or cities, but you can count on at least some changing numbers in a state capitol city, and maybe even in the emergence of the settlement and development of a new city or two if the effort comes in some of the candidate states. And a couple of near-ghost towns in a couple of the western candidates might be revived. But some very serious studies as to which counties and precincts offer the best political opportunities have been made for a couple of the western states, though employment and family considerations will be more overriding factors for some porkypines.
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I hear you. I'm tired of democrats and liberals running as Republicans, and then passing democrat legislation once they get in like they're doing now.
Yep.
Particularly if the Libertarian in Republican clothing actually votes like a Republican...something many Republicans can't even manage to do.
Yeah...that would be tragic.