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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
First of all, NO vote, that is cast, is a "wasted" vote.
Second of all, why do you "know" that the Libertarian is going to loose? Simply because they always have? I have heard over and over and over again that "Well, I'd have voted for Badnarik...if I thought that he had a chance to win.". Seems to me, that perhaps, just perhaps, if everyone had voted their true conscience, and how they truly believed, then Badnarik may have actually made quite a respectable showing.
That's kind of high schoolish, isn't it. "Well, I know that the "band geek" would make a much better student council president than the "jock", that he's running against, but he doesn't stand a chance of actually winning. Ahh, I'll just vote for the "jock" because everyone else is."
/me steps off of the Libertarian soapbox.
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respectable showing
There are no moral victories, only victories. My thought is if everyone who may have voted for Badnarik did indeed vote for him, he would have made a respectable showing, but only in so much that it would have cost Bush the election. I'm sure some democrats would have voted that way too, but most people who are left learning and claim to be libertarians know nothing about the party beyond it being trendy to talk about. Once they get beyond the legalization of currently illegal drugs they tend to be horrified.
The VERY best possibility would be that each election they would get more respectable to the point of viable. It would split the vote on the right. The US does not form coalition governments and it most likely never will, as such we get NOTHING and surrender all power to the left. This is bad. Even if the Libertarians became the majority party, it would take several years of left wing dominance to reach it. It is something I may consider worth while, but not on the CHANCE that the libertarians MAY some day be a majority party.
Even though I agree with libertarian philosophy to a high degree, I do not agree completely and it will always result in a situation where it is the lesser of evils.