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Libertarians are the kings of third-party candidates. To disciples, they stand for limited government on social and economic issues: Hands off our guns and hands off our women’s bodies and right to choose. To the rest of America, they stand for limited votes, having little chance of getting elected to any office higher than state treasurer.
They’re a party in search of any tangible power and flailing for relevance.
Have you heard of Chase Oliver? I hadn’t. That’s because he only garnered 2 percent of the vote in the recent Georgia Senate race. However, those 80,000-ish people who did wind up voting for Oliver may have prevented Rafael Warnock or Herschel Walker (we may never know which) from getting to 50% and thus forcing a runoff. What good is a “political party” if your vote does nothing but wind up helping to elect the candidate who is the least palatable to you?
Oliver describes himself as “armed and gay.” I describe him as “superfluous and delusional.” Yes, I know that the two-party system is far from ideal, however, siphoning off random votes from God-knows-who isn’t ideal, either.
