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Junior Chimp
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« on: May 06, 2012, 11:01:10 AM » |
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I'd like the Libertarians better if they did the smart thing and exclusively focused on local and state politics. Messing around with the presidential elections before your party is strong enough to dethrone the Big Two is a stupid idea.
The intelligent thing to do is go for libertarian-leaning constituencies in states that are friendly to such philosophies (New Hampshire and Alaska, maybe), and focus your money and attention on them. Build up an intellectual, partisan, and alliance-building infrastructure in those states, and run the most popular (not necessarily the most ideologically pure) candidates. Take over the libertarian-leaning states city by city.
It wouldn't be easy, but it'd be smarter than the frankly pathetic third party focus on the presidency.
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