Posted on 11/05/2008 5:25:47 AM PST by VaBthang4
What do you mean "lop off"? Can't you just browbeat them into voting for a platform of limited government and fiscal restraint by telling them that voting for a 3rd party is just helping the Democrats?
“Also, don’t blame the LP for the GOP’s RINO failings.”
I did no such thing .... It is really tiresome to read the same lame old excuses for the LP malfeasance. Please read what I actually wrote. I blame the LP for specifically targetting and throwing elections in Texas in a deliberate attempt to be spoilers that hurt pro-taxpayer Republican candidates. The LP knew what they were doing, they knew they would deliver seats to Democrats - that was their plan! The LP is a threat to taxpayers, by foisting on us liberal socialists. I am not griping about small-l libertarians, but I am griping about the Libertarian Party, the greatest friend the Democrats ever had in defeating the right by enabling a ‘divide and conquer’ approach.
I blame them for this:
The specific result was:
Bryan (R)
Maldonado, Dem, 34668, 48.6%.
Bryan Daniel, GOP, 33821, 47.4% ...
Lillian Simmons Lib 2,825 4.0%
This result was a DEFEAT for taxpayers.
Moldanado was a left liberal Dem fem multi-culti Obama supporter. She got tons of tor lawyer money, tons of pro-abort money, tons of teacher union money, and will be a sock puppet for every liberal special interest in a divided Texas statehouse. We get an Obama Democrat instead of a solid Republican who will be good on spending and taxes, was endorsed by conservative CTRA and who is a rock-solid fiscal and social conservative, the kind you say we SHOULD be nominating.
” Try energizing the base by running actual small government/Constitutionalist types to energize the base.”
OK, so we run an actual small government conservative and a stupid LP candidacy STILL kills him ...
The Libertarian Party was the accomplice in a dreadful act that killed a small government candidate and delivered a blow to conservatives and gave a lift to the leftwing liberal Austin establishment. It is acts like this that has made me swear that I will never ever ever ever vote for a Libertarian Party candidate ever again, and I would urge you to take the same pledge.
THE LP IS THE ENABLER OF ANTI-TAXPAYER CANDIDATES. THEIR STRATEGY IS HARMFUL TO TAXPAYERS. THE VOTERS WHO FALL FOR THEIR STUPIDITY ARE FOOLISH.
IT’S A SIMPLE RULE: UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. THE LP TACTICS ARE HELPING THE LEFT TO DIVIDE AND CONQUER US.
GOD HELP US ALL.
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