Reps and Dems aren't exactly the same, but they're closer to each other than either of them is to acceptable. And "libertarian" is not equivalent to "conservative". Conservative libertarians are a subset of libertarians.
"We lost the 2000 election in no small part due to Ralph Nader being in the race"
That old trope again? Fact is, every one of the dozen or so fringe candidates on Florida's ballot had more votes than the difference between Bush and Gore. It was a one-in-a-million freak occurrence that any of them mattered. If you're going to argue that Nader shouldn't have run because he split the vote, then it's fair to say that none of the others should have, either. And if they hadn't, Gore still would have lost because most of Florida's fronge candidates drew votes from the right.
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Date: 2012-12-27 04:44 am (UTC)"We lost the 2000 election in no small part due to Ralph Nader being in the race"
That old trope again? Fact is, every one of the dozen or so fringe candidates on Florida's ballot had more votes than the difference between Bush and Gore. It was a one-in-a-million freak occurrence that any of them mattered. If you're going to argue that Nader shouldn't have run because he split the vote, then it's fair to say that none of the others should have, either. And if they hadn't, Gore still would have lost because most of Florida's fronge candidates drew votes from the right.