[white_wolf]

Libertarians must realize that they are handing the country to the Dems. Libertarians are a greater threat to the GOP than the Naderites are to the Dems. Most new libertarians are GOPers who were offended over some real or imagined GOP defection. It is time to get over it, grow up, and realize that sometimes people in politics disappoint you. It doesn't mean that you pick up your marbles and desert the team. It is time for you Libertarians nee Republicans to come home and help save the party and the country.

[Reagan Man]

True Libertarian Party members are a small factional entity in the big picture and this has always been the case. In the last general election, LP prez candidate Harry Browne, recieved about 390,000 votes. That was a drop from 1996, when he garnered 485,000. The best an LP candidate has ever done, was Ed Clark's 921,000 in 1980.

Members of the Republican Liberty Caucus, who consider themselves libertarians and republicans, show no intention of breaking with the Republican Party.

FreeRepublic happens to be a home for many activist libertarians, I think you may be getting a false impression of their strength and numbers.

[caddie]

Ditto that.

Thanks to the Libertines, we almost had Gore Vidal as POTUS.

Typical Libertinethink: "There, we showed those Republicans a thing or two about principle.

Note to Libertines: Politicians have no principles.

Sometimes you have to accept the shortcomings of the GOP candidate, a lesser evil to the alternative, a certain Rat win.

This math always boggles the mind of a Libertine.