A vote for a Libertarian is just that; a vote for a Libertarian. It's not a vote for a Democrat or anyone else. Why is it that the Republican Party, the self-appointed guardians of free enterprise can't admit this? When I dine at Burger King instead of McDonalds am I doing this to hurt Wendy's? No. I don't want A, I don't want B, I want C. C is not A or B. Libertarians are not Republicans or Democrats. A RINO is not the lesser of two evils. And settling for less by voting for a Republican you don't want is just as bad as not voting at all.
You can vote for anybody you want to. It's still a free country last time I checked.
My point was that by voting for a third party, which at the Presidential level doesn't have a chance in Hades to win, you are essentially giving a free vote to the Hillary's of the world.
By not voting period you are giving a free vote to the Hillary's of the world. It's a fact. Deal with it.
The dems do enough vote manufacturing without us helping them by voting for people like Perot.
Unless you get a third party candidate, (like we did here in MN with Jesse), who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal and can capture about 40% of the centrist vote a third party candidate is not going to win. The left here still voted for Skippy Humphrey and the right voted for Norm Coleman. The middle voted for Jesse and voila, we have Jesse the Mind running our state.
A third party candidate that is either far left or far right is NEVER going to get enough of the vote to win. Sure, you're still entitled to vote for whoever you want to, but I stand by my statement that a vote for a third party is a vote for the other major party on the left/right scale.