Spoilers
Did the GOP learned this lesson ?
The Libertarian Party itself is small, but Pew Research Center pegs 9 percent of voters as libertarians who “oppose government regulation in both the economic and the social spheres” and the American National Election Studies puts that number even higher, at 13 percent.
Republicans lost this bloc of voters with their $200 billion-plus war in Iraq; the biggest entitlement program (Medicare) expansion in a half-century; record government spending; a $247 billion budget deficit for fiscal 2006 alone; and a religious right agenda that meddles in Americans’ personal lives — see Terri Schiavo.
Republicans abandoned limited government so libertarians were happy to play spoilers and send them packing.
I’m not sure.
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