[Conservative til I die]

This is what I've never gotten about some of the Kool-Aid Republicans here (I'm a Republican myself). Why do they think Libertarian votes are somehow rightfully GOP votes that somehow have been hijacked? Libertarians BY DEFINITION are not Republicans. Libertarian voters BY DEFINITION are not Republican voters.

[Kevin Curry]

Libertarian voters BY DEFINITION are not Republican voters.

Libertarian voters BY DEMONSTRATION are not conservative voters either.

They have helped to put three liberal democrats into the Senate: Cantwell, Reid, and Johnson. And they are proud of it.

[Dan Day]

This is what I've never gotten about some of the Kool-Aid Republicans here (I'm a Republican myself). Why do they think Libertarian votes are somehow rightfully GOP votes that somehow have been hijacked? Libertarians BY DEFINITION are not Republicans. Libertarian voters BY DEFINITION are not Republican voters.

I don't get it either.

What a lot of folks also miss is that many libertarian voters are disaffected *Democrats* (i.e., people who could no longer stomach voting for a Democrat, but who still wouldn't vote Republican in a million years). For all we know the Libertarian candidate might have siphoned more votes away from the Democratic candidate than from the Republican candidate, *raising* the Republican odds of winning.