I imagine the second... right now they're just endorsing Republicans and Democrats who agree to follow said platform. 

It could happen either way though, for it to really stick they need some more leftwing fiscal conservative/social liberal people to join the movement, so as to tame the social issues for whenever they become an issue.

Or as I like to call Fiscal Conservative/Socially Liberal people... sane people.  Ok, not really, but the majority of people I know fall in that category... yet nobody speaks for them.  So many rich and influencial people fall in that area too, just none of them are in politics... they're all in buisness mostly.

Kasz -

They are called Libertarians. They've been the Tea Party before the Tea Party was the Tea Party.

Yeah, but there aren't many of them... which is my point... for some reason despite a LOT of people being like that, few support the party.

I think it's because the Libretarian party is full of people who.... well think about it "too much."

Like, the average person could likely get to where the Libretarians are at... but it'd take time.

Most people want to cut spending, but Libretarians usually talk about tearing everything apart and flat taxes etc instead of working incrementally to reduce things.   It's not like if the Libretarians took a few seats they could acomplish everything right away anyway... so I don't get why they don't talk more moderatly about what they can do.

I mean, say Rand Paul wins the election... is he really going to dismantle the department of education?  How?