FINALLY: A USE FOR LIBERTARIANS!
Moving away now from the New York City mayoral election results -- with sincere thanks for all the laffs! -- I direct your attention to my favorite aspect of the Virginia governor's race: The suggestion by some of the brethren that Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis was planted by the Democrats to fix the election for McAuliffe. The Washington Free Beacon:
A donor to the Democratic Party of Virginia and bundler for Barack Obama funded a political action committee that provided Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert Sarvis with a crucial campaign contribution that helped get him on the ballot.
Whoever heard of someone contributing to more than one party? Why, it's like betting on more than one team at a time -- too complicated to be real!
Polls suggest Sarvis didn't affect the outcome, but they would, wouldn't they? Let's hear from the unskewed! Stephen Green at PJ Media:
But let’s not forget my Libertarian friends, who delivered 7% of the vote to phony-balony Libertarian Robert Sarvis. Thanks to them, McAuliffe was able to win with a 48% plurality.
Jonathan S. Tobin at Commentary:
Democrats had a huge financial and demographic advantage in Virginia as well as a divided GOP and a false flag Libertarian candidate that might have taken votes away from the Republicans.
False flag -- Tobin's taking lessons from Alex Jones, it seems. And ever-lovin' Jeff Godlstein:
First, we have to remember that not everyone follows politics as closely as we all do — and yet they would probably tell you that they are politically well-versed, reading the Washington Post, where both conservative George Will and “conservative” Jennifer Rubin were busy writing “a pox on both their houses” columns that, as was the case with Rubin, saw her endorsing the “Libertarian” candidate who it turns out was largely bankrolled by an Obama bundler, and who couldn’t get the support of libertarians Rand or Ron Paul, likely because his support of legalizing marijuana was about the only thing libertarian about the guy...
Wheels within wheels, sheeple!
The beautiful thing about this conspiracy and cover-up is that it implicates Gary Johnson and the libertoids at Reason, including Nick Gillespie, writing for liberal media truth-concealer Time magazine. No, wait -- the beautiful thing is that Cuccinelli apparently thought Sarvis was such a menace that he brought Ron Paul to Virginia to scare off some more moderate voters on the eve of the election. (After the fall, Paul blamed it on the kulaks.)
Actually, the really beautiful thing is this: I've been telling you good people for years that libertarianism is basically a niche brand of conservatism -- a political Converse to their Nike. Libertarians protest this isn't so, but conservatives know it is. And nothing shows it more clearly than the way conservatives celebrate the libertarian movement when it works for them, and flip out when it doesn't work to their advantage. You can't get mad at a dog for biting you -- unless it's your own dog.