Reason TV2012 Libertarian Party presidential candidate who again is running to be the party’s standard-bearer, is the subject of profiles in two legacy media publications this week. And as Donald Trump and Jeb Bush could tell you, media coverage is better than SuperPAC money when it comes to raising campaign awareness.
The New York Times writes that the Republican Party is currently “eating its own tail, with millions of voters lining up for a candidate that many party leaders find morally and politically reprehensible” and thus, there may be an opening for a “Naderian spoiler candidate to prevent Donald J. Trump from winning the presidency.”
The metaphor is a bit tortured, as Democratic Party leaders were in no way rooting for Ralph Nader to siphon voters from Al Gore and hand the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, and the Times acknowledges that GOP elites would be unlikely to rally around a candidate who is staunchly non-militaristic and has long supported reproductive rights, as well as the legalization of marijuana and prostitution.
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