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If Bush had not spent the last 4 years undermining virtually every libertarian goal by selling out to the left’s view of the role of federal government as the solution to all of our problems, he would not be having this problem.

How does the Libertarian Partry win by throwing the vote in Wi to Kerry? The publicity of the act?

They are basically admiting that Kerry would win if Bush does not, so what’s the point?

Until the libertarian show that they ARE willing to not support a republican, the republicans can continue to ignore them. Once they show that the republicans must actually listen to their views if they want the libertarians vote, then they will once again have a voice in the republican party.

Well, and besides that, aside from starving the states financially, Bush is anything but a Libertarian president.

Well said, Misha. The same argument I have made for the Nader supporters. If they cave to the Democratic Republocrat platform, they will forever be marginalized and their issues ignored. It was a small, but significant event that Kerry met with Nader earlier this year.

With Libertarians on almost all state ballots, 2008 may see the Republican candidate meeting with the Libertarian candidate as well. Small steps, but, ones which could lead to radical change in American politics in a few more election cycles as post election analysis continues to demonstrate that third party and independent voters were sufficient in numbers at the polls to have changed the outcome.