Except when they attempt to drive out a true conservative in an election by fronting a third party candidate. There in lies the problem. Libertarians are savagely used by the left to defeat conservatives.
No, what they did was put a pseudo green on a Libertarian slot on the ballet. Trust me, libertarians weren’t voting for him. I’ll hazard to say that they just stayed home.
I say thank God for libertarians or we would have been stuck with Gore and/or Kerry. We lose some smaller races but we did win the biggie when needed.