(02-29-2016 06:04 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: You mean a third party that was deliberately excluded from all debates and news coverage did poorly? I'M SHOCKED. SHOCKED I TELL YOU. Next thing you're gonna tell me is you need a spare billion dollars to have a serious chance of being President.
Excluded for a reason. And it was not because anyone was scared of them. If you let the libertarians in you have to let all the nonsense parties without a snowballs chance in hell.
Imagine a 1 hour debate where you have to accommodate the greens, the libertarians, the constitution party, the Rent's to damn high party, ....
Start polling high enough to win some electoral votes... *ANYWHERE* then piss and moan the big kids don't want you at their table.
(02-29-2016 06:04 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (02-29-2016 05:59 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote: Values Voters make up 47% of the GOP electorate. Yea shaqing on them sure will be a shot into something. I mean not the arm, but something.
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illino...orate.html
We'll assume for sake of argument you're right. They make up less than half of the smallest chunk of the electorate (Independents > Democrats > Republicans). And shrinking day by day as the old biddies get put six feet under and their social views from the 50's die with them. They grow more electorally toxic literally by the day.
They are shrinking, but they are not becoming libertarians, they are becoming leftists due to the takeovers of K12 by progressives.
The real answer is to establish some balance in the GOP between the values voters, the civil libertarians, the right leaning populist, and the fiscal conservatives. You need to stitch together a majority in this nation and the Libertarians are not the base to build that on.
But yea burn it all down and dance around the ashes. You may find you don't like the after smell because while you're shitting all over the evil of values voters the left is destroying your rights in the name of safe spaces and sensitivity.