There's been a lot of talk about holding off on the third party efforts this mid-term election. The argument is that, historically, the third party splits the conservative vote.
A couple months ago, I wrote a piece about America's third party that already exists - the Libertarians. Libertarians borrow the best of both parties and form a liberty-based political party. They take the Constitution for face-value, maximizing liberty and minimizing government.
I've been listening to these people, though, who say there's no room for a third party in this election. The stakes are too high! If we don't, as a free people, replace our statist federal government in 2010, America will be changed forever. If we split the conservative vote and a liberal is re-elected or newly elected, America will continue down the path of economic destruction.
Now here's what I think: libertarians ought to roll into the Republican primaries.
Many Republicans will find themselves on the Libertarian spectrum of the World's Smallest Political Quiz anyway. Then we have other Republicans who are fed up with the way the GOP has run things for the past 10 years. To top it all off, there are Independents & Libertarians without a prominent candidate in typical elections and end up voting Republican anyway.
So, with all that is on the line, what about the Libertarians fighting it out in the primaries with their true rivals, the Republicans? Then we get the best candidate of all. Isn't that what's most important?
I also like Neal Boortz's idea of voting Libertarian in local elections so they can build support through the ranks. That's something we can do now for a fundamental change in the future.
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