| | Jay, I can only say that your post has a strange kind of defeatist element to it. Somehow you appear to imbue whatever the force is that comes from the left or that moves things to the left as immutable and unstoppable - so much so that you don't even talk about doing so. While any attempt to pull things back to the right is painted as a childish, futile effort doomed to failure and led by losers.
You say, "as currently positioned, Libertarians will never..." Then they need to change positions.
You say, "The viable Libertarian candidate is the one that knows he'll have to tolerate walking to the left..." Jay, you grant a power to liberals they have only your mind, and you miss the power of the right principles and education. Maybe you are thinking in terms of an immediate win or a very short war - that would explain what you are saying. Think instead of a war that will likely go on for decades. I assure you, if any libertarian candidate starts walking to left, he has lost that battle even if he accidently wins the election.
You say, "Using the current strategy, and promoting loose cannons, Libertarians will never even lay a hand on the rope, let alone pull it back toward the right, and sanity." That is correct. But this is a long war, and we need to change the Libertarian party strategy (NOT by moving it to the left, but by making it speak strongly to those common sense, self-interest positions like small government, reduced taxes, end foreign aid, clean up corruption, balanced budgets, etc.), get rid of the loose cannons and nuts, and support voting for our principles instead of being advocates for the lesser evil which harms our chances. We will not change the republican party to put up a platform that resembles the Libertarian platform. All attempts to make of the Republican party a party supporting Capitalism and rational egoism is not even slightly realistic and all republican votes are just a form of retreat and delay in terms of the longer war.
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