The guy was a fake libertarian funded by the demorats.
Fake (L) taking votes from Cuccinelli?
As a (L), he didn’t help himself with the alternative gas tax scheme (GPS tracking), but he received funding (legally)....does that make any difference in any party? Did the same benefactor hedge their bets by donating to the other part(y/ies)?
Now, you wish to place blame, put it on the party that couldn’t make the message resounding enough to bring out 3x as many people that stayed home (FWIR, there were 8.8M eligible voters, only 2.2 came out).
The guy was an actual libertarian, nominated by the libertarians, and representing the libertarians. and he won the votes of his fellow libertarians.
Naturally the democrats also donated to his campaign, libertarians throw a lot of races to the democrats, who share many of the libertarian positions on issues of the day, such as abortion, borders, the homosexual agenda, porn, drugs,etc.