Why I vote Republican

Yes, I am a Libertarian, and no, I do not vote third-party. Nor should you, as the Conservative Teacher explains. 

I've also been pounding this point for a while, pointing out where libertarians voting for a 'Libertarian' over a conservative/libertarian Republican has been crucial in helping elect socialists, communists, and fascists.

Here in Michigan, a solid conservative Republican Rocky Raczkowski expressed many ideas and policies that libertarians could get around, but the libertarians still ran two candidates against him, one an official Libertarian and another an independent. Too late they realized the error of their ways, and in the last week of the race both dropped out to endorse Rocky, but many people had already voted absentee or didn't know about them dropping out and endorsing Rocky, and they received enough votes that together they helped Democrat Gary Peters get elected, a man whose policies and views and ideas are considerably opposed to libertarians. See my post Libertarian Candidate Drops out of MI-9th Race and Endorses GOP Candidate Rocky- Dem Congressman Peters Calls All Libertarians 'Fringe'.

Back in 2008, I wrote a post on how Michigan Supreme Court Judge Cliff Taylor, who was a libertarian's dream version of a candidate, lost because he was a Republican and the Libertarians sucked off enough votes that he was defeated by a leftist activist judge who has continually issued decisions that attack human freedom and liberty. Taylor lost 39% to 49% to Dianne Hathaway... but a motivated and organized and active Libertarian base gave 11% to a no-chance-of-winning candidate named Robert Roddis who was not any more demonstratively libertarian that Taylor- if that 11% would have been given to the proper candidate, libertarians would have been much more happy with the result.

I was also, once, a doctrinaire Libertarian.  I figured that I was either voting for someone who was 100% with me, or I wasn't voting at all.  But, like CT, I've since grown up and realized that this all-or-nothing attitude was accomplishing nothing except putting more statists in office.  Enough already!  The Marxists took over the Democrat party by degrees, and our only shot at freedom is to get involved in the GOP primaries and make sure we run someone as close to Libertarian as we can get--which means a true Conservative.

During the Revolutionary War, men who despised slavery stood alongside slaveholders to beat back the British.  They didn't agree on everything, but they didn't have to in view of the big picture.  Maybe you don't agree with a Conservative candidate's views on abortion or drug legalization.  That's OK.  As long as--for the most part--they're all about free men and free markets, then vote for them.  If you're waiting for that one candidate that agrees with you on everything, you'll be waiting a long damn time.