Do the Libertarians and Tea Party Really Want Another Democrat Congress and President?

The 2013 US elections are over. These off-year elections are local in nature - mayors, town councils, local initiatives. The New Jersey and Virginia governor elections are the only statewide elections in the year after a presidential election. New Jersey's incumbent GOP governor, Chris Christie, seeking re-election, gave importance to an otherwise routine election day. Republican Christie won last night, in a state overwhelmingly Democrat, thus boosting his claim to be the front runner for the GOP 2016 presidential nomination. He took the majority of women's votes and did very well with Black and Hispanic voters. In short, his four-year record of good government, in which bipartisan compromise and negotiation with the Democrat-controlled state legislature, was rewarded with re-election. In Virginia, with no incumbent in the governor's race, two flawed candidates - the Democrat McAuliffe who was tarred with special-interest business deals and Obamacare faced the Republican Cuccinelli who was painted as a tea party "government shutdown" conservative out of touch with modern America. McAuliffe narrowly won. Mostly because women voted for him, rejecting Cuccinelli's tea party anti-abortion stance. That might not have been enough to defeat Cuccinelli outright because his anti-Obamacare campaign narrowed the gap from a 10-percent advanrage for McAuliffe to a very narrow 1-percent victory. But the well-financed and Clinton-supported McAuliffe campaign had the great luck of having a third-party Libertarian candidate syphon away 7% of the vote that normally would have gone to Cuccinelli. That sealed the deal and put Virginia solidly in the Democrat column with governor, lieutenant governor and two US Senators for the first time in a quarter century. The GOP, by financially ignoring Cuccinelli, whom they considered unelectable, turned their back on a GOP victory that would have been theirs with appropriate money and support. Proving once more Ben Franklin's warning : "We must all hang together or we will surely all hang separately." ~~~~~ Dear readers, these two governorship elections will be analyzed all the way to the 2014 congressional elections and beyond to the 2016 presidential election. Democrats will once again announce the death of the GOP. Nothing could be less true. The Democrats were very lucky to win in Virginia. The GOP lost because of a national leadership lack of faith in their own candidate - and because of a Libertarian candidate who was given votes by Americans who would rather be philosophical pure than elect officials who agree with their overall philosophy of personal liberty and constitutional government. Because of this, the Virginia Libertarians elected a Democrat whose party has constantly trampled on personal liberties and shredded the Constitution. Republicans and Libertarians must negotiate a deal that lets them work together in 2014 and 2016 if the GOP and constitutional government is to succeed. And tea party Republicans must understand that the "one-size-fits-all" Democrat view that sucks all power to Washington and created Obamacare is exactly what they themselves always propose by insisting that every state level Republican in all 50 states must agree with their entire social platform. One size does not fit all and if the tea party does not learn this lesson, they will be responsible for the election of a Democratic Congress in 2014 and a Democrat President in 2016. Leading to more Washington interference in the daily lives of Americans because of the Democrat view that the state knows best and citizens are cows to be milked for the taxes needed to pay for their leftist-socialist worldview. Is this really what the tea party and Libertarians want?