[Virginia-American]

You would think that Conservatives would want the same.
I have increasing doubts.

The LP was founded when Nixon imposed wage and price controls.
The GOP in the New Deal Congress considered the marijuana tax act unconstitutional.
Reagan *said* he wanted to end the Dept. of Education.
GHW Bush flagrantly violated the Second Amendment.

And so on and so on. Ronald Reagan, among others, said "I didn't leave the D*m*cr*t Party, it left me". How many people can say the same thing with respect to the GOP?

There is some difference between the Reps and the D*ms, and I agree that on the whole the GOP has higher standards, but it's increasingly the choice between Fabianism and Bolshevism. whereas my #1 choice is laissez-faire and a strictly-enforced Constitution.

[Malcolm]

Mainly, because it would split the conservative vote and thereby put Democrats in office. Since LP members are not really conservative, they couldn't care less if Dems are in ofc, (can you say Maria Cantwell?). I will never vote LP, because it would be a vote for a liberal party, passing itself off as an alternative to conservatives. Pro-Abortion and pro-legalized drugs? Yeah, right, that's very, very conservative..... (NOT!!!)