But its highest elected official currently is a Vermont state legislator. Calif. Based on his resume, Olivier is now running for the party's vice presidential nomination. In 1996, Browne drew 485,120 votes. Still, I'm surprised Browne did as well as he did. I have to assume that most of those half-million voters didn't read the party's platform and were unaware of the nominee's more exotic stands.
Libertarians are anarchists at heart.
The party's ideal society could exist only in the realm of theory. The party's position on national defense is equally loony. In a Browne presidency, no American soldier would set foot on foreign soil. None of our business, the investment counselor replied. In that case, Browne said he'd fortify our southern border and await an invasion.