# GOP trying to suppress the Libertarian Party **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 15, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-trying-to-suppress-the-libertarian-party/637810 "2012-10-15T19:57:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-trying-to-suppress-the-libertarian-party/637810/21 "2012-10-16T18:04:28Z")
One could make virtually the same assertions about the Greens. I will not weep if President Obama benefits at least as much from LP activity in 2012 as GWB did from GP activity in 2000 (just _without_ the need to go to court). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-trying-to-suppress-the-libertarian-party/637810/22 "2012-10-16T18:27:33Z")
I, for one, am shocked and dismayed by your attitude, **KaylaPop**! Our motives must retain their pristine purity lest we surrender the moral high ground. I am fraught with sorrow over this, but hasten to remind that sometimes choking down sobs of dismay can sometimes be mistaken for chuckling. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-trying-to-suppress-the-libertarian-party/637810/23 "2012-10-16T18:34:39Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > The Libertarian Party suppresses itself by having idiotic ideas that most of the country disagrees with. It’s had decades to build a constituency and it’s never risen to the level of a serious national party. It isn’t all about our two-party system, it’s about the fact most people, when they hear Libertarian ideas, disagree with them. Blaming another party is not going to change that. My brief flirtation with Libertarian politics came to and end when I recognized that they will never accomplish anything politically. Their main activity consists of trying to impress others with their ideological purity. Some of them even [recognize this about themselves.](http://www.mi.lp.org/Lists/SuccessNotebook/DispForm.aspx?ID=10) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-trying-to-suppress-the-libertarian-party/637810/24 "2012-10-16T22:41:20Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I know you; you’re the chairman of the Pedantic Society. We’re still nit-picking the proper name (_Sociéte De Pedantreeee_ sounds so _parfaît_, n’est-ce pas?)… … so we just call ourselves _The Bricker Bunch_. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-trying-to-suppress-the-libertarian-party/637810/25 "2012-10-16T23:37:03Z")
Over my dead body! His too, most likely. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-trying-to-suppress-the-libertarian-party/637810/26 "2012-10-17T00:27:02Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Have they? Serious question. I remember Ralph Nader talking about this (I believe in the documentary an unreasonable man). He said in 2004 the democrats came to him and told him if he did not run they would give large amounts of money to various charities he supported. If he did run they would do their best to suppress his ability to get on the ballot, draining his time and money. I believe they also threatened gov funding some of his pet interests, but I could be remembering wrong. However since right wing authoritarians tend to lean more conservative, I would assume suppression of democracy is going to be stronger on the right than on the left. People who think they are doing gods work are going to be less inclined to respect democracy. [สล็อต888 เว็บสล็อตแท้ 100% สล็อตเว็บตรง แตกง่าย ไม่มีขั้นต่ำ](http://www.greenpartywatch.org/category/ballot-access/). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-trying-to-suppress-the-libertarian-party/637810/27 "2012-10-17T00:56:25Z")
The GOP seems to be trying to suppress _everything_, this year. Not merely a thumb in the dike, but each thumb in a \*different \* dike, each big toe in a different leaky pipe, their tongues in a dripping faucet, & you _don’t want to know_ what’s plugging the hole in the roof. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-trying-to-suppress-the-libertarian-party/637810.md?page=1)