Quote Originally Posted by generalmeow View Post
I see a lot of Republicans pissed at Libertarians on other website comment sections, because the Republicans and Libertarians combined for 53% of the votes. The Republicans think those are all their votes. But I think those are all Libertarian votes. The Republicans cost the Libertarian the election.

If the Republicans don't want Libertarians stealing their votes, they need to become Libertarians. As a Libertarian, why would I ever vote for a Republican? They don't represent anything I want. If a Democrat gets elected, so what? It's just going to piss people off more which will in turn help them see things the Libertarian way. The more Democrats win, the more Libertarian conservatives will become. That's a good thing.
That's just plain ignorant. The Libertarian candidate wasn't even in the running, his running put the Democrat in the office just like Perot put Clinton in office and kept him in office (and I like Perot).

Republicans don't need to become Libertarians, strict Constitutionalists need to take over the Republican party and challenge the Establishment types. Rand Paul wouldn't even be in office if he followed your game plan.

So what if a Dem gets in? Jane Norton wouldn't have been the 60th vote enabling Obama to push Obamacare past a GOP filibuster. Dan Maes wouldn't have signed the gun control legislation this year. As bad as George Bush was about spending and Medicare Part D, he wouldn't have misused the IRS the way Obama has. Get a clue from the fact that Dems are not only happy about getting a plurality by having Libertarians split the non-Democratic vote with Republicans, they actually give massive amounts of money to Libertarian candidates to do this.