Your reasoning is just as flawed as the Dems blaming losses on the Greens. Let's face it, you don't win everybody's vote by triangulating the best. A candidate that doesn't demonstrate principles loses a lot of votes from principled people. Just as a pro-corporate Democrat isn't going to get votes from environmentalist voters, an antifederalist Republican (which should be, but unfortunately isn't, a contradiction in terms) isn't going to get the votes of libertarians.
The flawed assumption that you make is that people don't vote for their principles, they vote for pure political power. That's the same mistake the Democrats made that got them annihilated this election. Now that the bankruptcy of that philosophy has been proven at the ballot box, you want to drag the Republican Party down that route?
Principles will always win in the end. Godless power-worship will always lose. It's rather sad that you are so enamored of power that you need to place blame on a third party for a handful of GOP losses. As Jesse Ventura proved, it's believing in something that brings most voters out to the polls - supporting one corrupt candidate over another corrupt candidate doesn't.
For the record, I am a small-l libertarian and a small-r republican both. The two governing philosophies are 100% compatible, so don't blame us if your favorite candidate can't figure that out. You want this vote? Ranting and scapegoating won't get you it. You get more flies with honey, as they say, so bend over and kiss my libertarian ass.
Oh, and by the way... 1996 called, it wants its mindset back.
Excuse me, but are you aware that without political power your agenda goes no where? The Greens have no power; how far is their agenda advancing? The Libertarians have no power; how far is their agenda advancing? In the case of the Libertarians, their agenda is loosing ground. In a number of states that had Republican Governors, and no longer do; the Green Party will make more advances.
Sir, you are just cutting off your nose to spite your face. Without power, principal means nothing. We are a world governed by power (ask any Cuban exile). If you have no power, you are standing on a principal supported by nothing.
I like most of the Libertarian agenda, and want it incorporated into the GOP. Wake up and smell the smoke; that smoke is what is left of the Constitution. We don't have much time left!
MARK A SITY
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