The Red-headed stepchild of American politics

Why do people think that just because they think they disagree with either the Republican or Democrat parties, they can call themselves a liberatarian (or a Libertarian, there's a difference).

That artless jackanapes Bill Maher has been claiming the title for years, and now the ill-tempered former Democrat presidential candidate Mike Gravel says he is running for the LP presidential nomination, though he shows every sign of being a thoroughgoing socialist.

Myself, I'm a libertarian Republican, at least until I start the Tory Anarchist Party. And I know my Libertarian Party bretheren well enough to know that, though the LP is the red-headed stepchild of American politics, it will be Gravel who gets the beating at their convention.