Meet the Losertarians!

The American Enterprise ^ | November 14, 2002 | Michael Medved

[colorado tanker]

Well this should be an interesting thread . . .

[xrp]

It's just such a damn shame that the Repressivecans message didn't appeal to the 3000 some voters in South Dakota. Maybe if it had, they would have voted for the Repressivecan candidate :)

[TheAngryClam]

Now, as much as the Libertarians bug me sometimes in close races, all that would have happened is that Johnson would have "miraculously" found a few more votes in that last precinct.

Yay for voter fraud. /sarcasm.

[Afronaut]

And how do you feel about the Green Party? Better start sending them cash and hope Ralphie boy runs again.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Medved just doesn't get it. He, and other "compassionate conservatives," with their me too plans on prescription drugs, farm subsidies, etc. create an opening for libertarians to thrive. Physician heal thyself!

[xrp]

Oops...and the same for all the other elections where the Libertarians got votes.

The Repressivecans seem to increasingly have an issue with labelling any conservatives that don't vote Repressivecan as a traitor or even something worse than a Democrat. In the end, that just might alienate more conservative voters.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

I would never vote Libertarian, but I really think that this line of argument is seriously misguided. We have a perfect right to vote for anyone we wish- and if that means that a "mainstream" candidate loses, well, so be it. Maybe Thune should have campaigned harder, or taken better measures against voter fraud on the reservations. It's not the fault of people who voted for third parties- most of whom probably would have stayed home, anyway, except for the chance to cast their little "protest vote".

Michael Medved is often wrong- and I don't think much of his movie criticism, either.

[Steven W.]

hard to know because those 3000 people must have been near brain dead to actually vote for somebody who had already dropped out of the race.

[antaresequity]

He sounds like a liberal with this blame game nonsense...Thune lost because he didnt get enough votes (to overcome fraud), not because liberatarians voted their convictions...

MedVed is wrong...its not about winning...its about issues and messages....

[Dems_R_Losers]

I'm no fan of libertarians, but the truth is that the vast majority of voters voting for libertarian candidates would probably not vote at all if there were not a libertarian on the ballot. This would not help Republicans. In South Dakota, the libertarian candidate quit and endorsed Thune, but it was too late to get his name off the ballot. The votes for him were "none of the above" votes, or votes of genuine libertarians who are not Republicans and don't want to be. I don't believe a single one of them would have voted for Thune under any circumstances.

And as for third parties in general, I would say Jesse Ventura was pretty successful in Minnesota.

[John Lenin]

You losertarians can stay where you are. You and me have absolutely nothing in common.

[My2Cents]

There was a time (recently) when I was considering registering as a Libertarian, but from most of the posts I see from such ilk on FR, the Libertarian Party's main appeal (despite all the glowing rhetortic) is to people who want weed and prostitution legalized.

[jeremiah]

Mr. Medved harps on the devolution from polite discussion in American politics, to name calling, then resorts to this tactic,ad nauseum. Truth is, a high majority of those that vote for 3rd parties, would stay home instead of casting votes for the Tweedle dumb or Tweedle dumber choices.

[Mr. Mojo]

Why this arrogant baseline assumption that Libertarian candidates 'steal' votes from the GOP??

Possibly because Libertarians take a consistent small gov't position and the GOP claims to be the party of small gov't.

[mysterio]

Well, since demonization of libertarians didn't work out too well for you, I guess you Republicans will have to do something to bring them in. Perhaps first you should try actually being the smaller government party. Government appears more bloated to me than it ever was. Until then, I guess you won't be able to count on us to pick the lesser of two evils.

[Mr. Mojo]

Mr. Medved harps on the devolution from polite discussion in American politics, to name calling, then resorts to this tactic, ad nauseum.

So true.

[xrp]

I guess not. You're obviously labeling me as a Libertarian, which is not entirely accurate, but to be expected from the growing paranoia of the Repressivecan Party, the party whose leaders brought us Iran-Contra, Rex-84, John Poindexter, etc.

Apparently unlike you, I believe in a strict interpretation of the rule of law as written down in the US Constitution. Most Repressivecans barely understand what guidelines that set out for a MUCH smaller and less powerful central federal government than we have today and the Repressivecans that DO understand it are drowned out by the majority of the Repressivecan Party that is just as power-hungry as the Democratic Party.

[tpaine]

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