Name ten real quick.
LP = The futile way to bring about change.
However, I am unconvinced that its membership base is sufficient to gain much traction with the old-guard, Lincoln-loving Republican Party in Texas or anywhere else. As much as I admire Ron Paul, not one Republican in a thousand has his understanding of the U.S. Consitution, let alone his single-minded determination to abide by its strictures. If there are ten in elected office, I'd like to see their names.
After 40 years of seeing the Republican Pary throw away any number of opportunities to stand up for this nation's founding principles of federalism and limited government, only to embrace policies and programs the Democrats sponsored but were unable to enact, it may be too late to reform it. The party has set itself on the course of going for the votes of the "broad middle" and that means outmoded concepts such as property rights and trial by jury will have to take a back seat.
"Excuse me, please, while I rearrange these deck chairs. No, ma'm, there's no need to be looking for a lifeboat. Everything is going along just swimmingly, pardon the pun. We'll be resuming our schedule in the salon just as soon as we lay down some non-slip flooring so you won't slide off the boat. Blame it on the Democrats! It was their iceberg!"
But I DO care about who wins, and I think that hard-core libertarianism has too many contradictions to serve as an organizing principle for the US government.
However, if there was a way to drag the GOP 20 degrees in Ron Paul's direction, I'd be fine with it.
Two statist parties is one too many.