<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 12:55 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4252672634746665746"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_4252672634746665746WordSection1"><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_4252672634746665746gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">If one of the mainstream candidates fully embraced the LP platform, the PL would not know what to do.</span></i><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…<span class="m_4252672634746665746gmaildefault"> they would continue to promote their own candidate and do everything they could think of to split the libertarian vote… John K Clark</span></span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_4252672634746665746gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_4252672634746665746gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Those two actions are contradictory.  </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Oh come on Spike, get serious.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b></font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4252672634746665746"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_4252672634746665746WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_4252672634746665746gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If they continue to promote their own candidate, they are unifying the libertarian vote.  If they split the libertarian vote, they are voting for a candidate other than their own. </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>It wouldn't matter in a landslide presidential election, but we haven't had one of those since Ronald Reagan, so now it does matter. Half of the people with a libertarian bent who would've voted for the mainstream candidate who had a modest libertarian inclination and a realistic possibility of actually winning, instead voted for the Libertarian Party candidate <u>who never had a realistic chance of winning even one electoral vote</u>. And thus, thanks to the Libertarian Party, the extremely anti-libertarian dictator wannabe guy bec<span class="gmail_default" style="">ame</span> the most powerful man in the world.  And that is unforgivable. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4252672634746665746"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_4252672634746665746WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_4252672634746665746gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>One can scarcely fault the Libertarian party for promoting their own candidate,</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I don't think it's unreasonable to fault people who care more about the Libertarian Party than they care about libertarian policies becoming reality.</b></font><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""> John K Clark </span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>