And perhaps join on the same POTUS ticket for 2016 ...?
p.s. libertarians must disabuse themselves of ever being at the top of the ticket.
Posted on 06/06/2014 12:24:07 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
This is the playbook from Virginia. Alas.
Because Republicans and conservatives are politically naive. They just don't think tactics -- they see it as unfair.
Well Democrats don't deserve fairness.
as soon as they legalize dope, most “liberalatarians” will go back to voting democrat.
Possibly, that and disabling the Electoral College.
if I gets my dope, why would I have to vote?
UN-F****ING BELIEVABLE!
Yet totally believable!
If they had nominated Greg Brannon, who had the endorsement of Rand Paul and Ron Paul, this guy would get zero traction. Now Toll Road Tillis is going to lose. Karl Rove costs us victory again.
Dang it! Now I need another roll of duct tape to wrap around my head, and I am almost out.
And perhaps join on the same POTUS ticket for 2016 ...?
p.s. libertarians must disabuse themselves of ever being at the top of the ticket.
Similar 3rd party strategy worked for the demos in the Virginia governor’s race. It was just enough to get a democrap elected governor.
Reps are way to nice and clueless to play nasty. Demos don’t care about anything but gaining power.
The GOPe sabotaged their own candidate in Va because he was too conservative for them. He didn’t get half the party funds their 2009 nominee got.
Doubt it.
At this point, aside from confirmed RINOs, you are better off holding your nose and voting GOP. The Libertarian is a spolier. If the GOP was smart - and no one ever accused them of THAT - they would run a far left-wing third party candidate and fund their campaign. It would do the same thing o the the Dems that they are doing here to the GOP.
And Republicans/conservatives must disabuse themselves of believing they can win by going it alone.
>> The GOPe sabotaged their own candidate in Va because he was too conservative for them.
Exactly.
I’m doubtful the libertarian ticket has a big impact on those that normally vote Republican. The libertarian ticket may get more young voters to the polls, but not necessarily take away a disproportionate number of votes from the Right.
The GOPe made Sarvis the excuse for its otherwise malicious treatment of the Conservative candidate.
Those two concepts are not mutually exclusive. You can blame 3rd parties AND recognize the GOP’s faults at the same time.
Especially when the 3rd party is a Dem plant, and the idiot libertarians (not all, but you know who you are) fall for it.
agree with all of that..
| p.s. libertarians must disabuse themselves of ever being at the top of the ticket. And Republicans/conservatives must disabuse themselves of believing they can win by going it alone. |
Conservatives compromised ourselves with RINO's like McCain and Romney. We damn sure ain't gonna go lower than that and settle for sell out libertarians.
Better to lose with pride than do that.
The most powerful attacks on the left/Democrats are coming from libertarians and the libertarian leaning. That's where the energy is. They're the ones that were much of the energy behind the Tea Party. You don't see conservative has-beens doing half of what libertarian types have been doing.
In any race involving a libertarian the concern is always with the libertarian siphoning off votes from the Republicans. That should tell you something about what side they're on.
At least libertarians will allow conservatives the freedom to be conservative. Democrats won't even let a conservative decide who he will or won't make a cake for!
The dems wouldn’t be able to have a plant if the GOP had worthy candidates. People are voting for the guy they think best matches them, if that’s not the GOP candidate it’s not the voters’ fault.
Oh well...
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