Libertarian Party: Worthless
Larken Rose at Freedom's Phoenix - the party of principle is now the party of incremental principles, just enough to hopefully get elected, but not so much as to scare away the voters. Yeah. Right.
There is a huge, fundamental difference between advocating less evil, and advocating no evil. Advocating a significant reduction in murder, rape, and armed robbery, is not the same as being opposed to such things entirely. Since "taxation" is a euphemism for extortion and robbery, done via violence and the threat of violence, the libertarian principle does not allow for any taxation at all. The anti-aggression principle is incompatible with any "taxation." Period.
Yet the Libertarian Party is out there talking about "lower taxes." While we're at it, how about if we have a platform of being for a 40% reduction in murder, a 50% reduction in rape, and--hey, let's get radical--a 70% reduction in car-jacking? After all, it would be extreme to advocate that we should have none of those things. So we'd better try to phase in that reduction in murder, and water down our opposition to rape, and be more moderate in our opposition to car-jacking. Because, after all, we need to win elections, and you can't do that if you have actual principles!
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