Sarvis was a libertarian?
Jefferson was a libertarian.
The Founding Fathers were libertarians.
I'm a libertarian and always have been.
I have never voted for a Democrat since I registered to vote in 1970.
Sarvis was a Libertarian, not a libertarian. He was actually a liberal hoping to siphon the votes of independents who consider themselves conservative but were too lazy to check him out. Instead, he hoped they'd fall for the Libertarian label.
He'd been polling around 10%, but only got 6.6%. So, maybe some folks wised up in time.