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Originally Posted by kutulu
Yes it does say something. The LBT party's ideas would not work and everyone else other than the LBTs know that.
Their solution to every problem is the same: eliminate the govt agency that is meant to deal with that problem and privatize it. Sorry, but that doesn't work for everything.
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You grossly oversimplify the Libertarian platform - I might just as easily say that the Republican/Democrat solution to every problem is the same: a new government agency with ______ bias that will enforce _______ ridiculous regulations so that ________ target demographic group will be happy. You are an exmaple of why libertarian candidates need to be in debates - so people understand what the LP platform actually is.
Back to the original topic, unless someone has a real preference for Bush or Kerry (enough of one that they would vote for Pres. without any third party candidates to vote for) and lives in a battleground state, I don't think it really matters, in terms of who wins the election, who they vote for. However, the more people who vote for a third party, the more media attention it gets. The more media attention it gets, the more the dominant parties are forced to accomodate/respond to its ideas, and the more powerful it (or its ideas, if they become assimilated into a major party) become. The third parties are the method of introducing radical new ideas into the real world of American politics, and their importance should not be discounted.