Libertarians running as Rs

Advantages and disadvantages come in running as a Republican (but saying openly of being libertarian, or a Goldwater Republicans. In Allegheny County, and especially the city, where there's little more than an empty shell of a GOP party, the Ls might get an edge. The Libertarians in Pittsburgh talked about this avenue years ago. 
===Posting by Starchild to the national student libertarian group, about running as a Libertarian.===
Re: [LPCandidates2006] Electing People to Office is NOT the Purpose
I've run for office four times and will probably continue running for the reasons you mention, but I won't drain movement resources by "running to win" unless I can do so without engaging in a strategy of compromise or concealment and honestly think I have a decent shot at winning.
As a rule I couldn't agree with you more about "How to Get Elected" seminars. Most "candidate training" seems to be aimed at getting candidates to jettison their radical ideas and become white-bread conformists who think like career politicians instead of freedom fighters. If I was a statist with a lot of money and the goal of stymieing radical political change, I would hire a bunch of professional political consultants to go around giving free candidate training seminars to Libertarians, just to keep them bored, dispirited, thinking inside the box, and safely instilled with the self-defeating view that they are inferior to the establishment masters of the political game who must be faithfully emulated in order to have any hope of "success."
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For the forseeable future, focusing on getting Libertarians elected is delusional.
But being a candidate allows us to be a part of the discussions, participate in forums, get (limited) news coverage, and basically is ONE way to help get our ideas out there.
Let's stop wasting time on "How to Get Elected" seminars. Running for office should be seen as a chance to educate and let others know that a libertarian alternative exists.
==Links==
* Libertarian Political Progress from November, 2006