After this election, do you think libertarians will have a chance?

[Mr. Nice Guy]

I am a libertarian who's voting for obama because I can't stand McCain and I wish he stood for the things I stand for like ending the war (not that i'm so sure obama will either).

But the point is, there hasn't been a libertarian voice in the mainstream since say ike. Who once said "you should be an economic conservative, but a social liberal!". That basicly describes us libertarians!

[sandra]

I am hoping if Obama wins that he appoint some to his Cabinet like Ron Paul, Ross Perrot and Nager. Barr is to far out for me of the these I have read. But I hoping....................

[Brown9489]

Sorry...Libertarianism is simply a dysfunctional ideology.

It has no practical application in the free world.

[Rocket]

if obama wins i don't think anyone will have a chance. i honestly don't think this country will survive if obama is elected and the sad thing is, we will deseave it because we let a terrorist lover in the white house.

[Curious21]

Its amazing, over 100 years these parties have had a political stranglehold over politics. It amazes me that we overlook the media blackouts over people such as Ron Paul; Truth can only be held hostage for so long. I am proud that libertarians hold over 840 political offices country wide.

[Vote Satan 08]

There was no reason they didn't have a chance in this election. If their grassroots were working in concert with one another then they would have done better. I'll tell you something here right now, if I were approached, I could take any candidate from ANY PARTY and make them our new President.

[suthrngal]

Whoever gets into office will probably be voted out four years from now because there is a huge mess to clean up. So yes, it's a chance for a third party to run a candidate and make it.

Being a libertarian myself, you're the first I've run across who would vote for someone that has proposed nothing but larger government and redistribution of wealth, two things that a true libertarian doesn't stand for and wouldn't support. If the libertarian party gets filled with people who claim they're behind the party but will vote for someone with socialist tendencies, then, like the democrats and republicans, the libertarian party has been hijacked.

[GlockTwentySeven]

What I don't understand is, what's wrong with being an economic moderate?

Being a moderate, you can have your cake and eat it too.

There just needs to be balance.

There are some things should be left up to free trade and laissez-faire markets.

And there are some things that should be left up to the government to regulate.

I definitely don't think that the government should regulate and tax everything.

But there are some things that I think are too important the citizenry, to be left up to the open market.

An example of those things would be Health Care & Education.

Too important to allow greed and profit to cloud the issue with those two.

But if you want the rest to be fair game, fine.

I've got no problem with that.

[brownman]

libertarians will never be a major party force. if anything their ideas will be absorbed by both democrats and republicans. if you do not believe me, look at history of third parties.

populists- absorbed by the democrats
green party- absorbed by the democrats
slavery banned party- absorbed by lincoln's republicans

none of these parties ever became a major force. instead they were absorbed by the main parties in ideology

[Meg]

I think the financial meltdown will do serious damage to the concept that unregulated free markets represent the perfect way to run the economy. One of my favorite blogs put it this way " there are no atheists in foxholes and no Libertarians during a financial crisis"