On Sunday, I posted a story about a former GOP office holder in Texas who tried to persuade Libertarian candidates to quit so that the Republican party might win libertarian votes.
There is a subsequent story in the Houston Chronicle reporting that the GOP house speaker, Tom Craddick, had similar conversations with LP candidates.
Naturally, Texas Democrats jumped in to contend that this is Republican intimidation of a small third party.
Republicans do best when their candidates genuinely embrace libertarian principles.
When the GOP tends libertarian, there’s no need for them to worry about vote-siphoning, or what the Democrats think, either.
The story is available at
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5926757.html