firstandten, It's happening. In Minnesota, over 50 Ron Paul supporter candidates are running mostly at the local level mostly as Republicans. Middleton, WI, a suburb of Madison, for years had a Libertarian Party city manager. He cut costs by privatizing trash collection and other innovations. Middleton still managed to make some lists of "best cities in America" to live in. Services were still there but at a lower cost. The trick is making the jump from local politician to national politician because a constitutional libertarian is free to spend on things locally which are not permitted at the federal level. Of course, there are other spending items federally which aren't permitted by states. Another problem that I touched on before is that federal elections are based more on corporate money and why would corporations promote liberty? They would rather support politicians who make you buy their product or force the competition out of business.