Almost by definition they lack a galvanizing issue - like abortion for the Right-to-Life Party - that would unite them and spur them to build a party.
In recent years the Liberals' power waned, eclipsed by the Conservatives and the growth of the Right-to-Life Party.
He filed petitions last week to run for Congress from the Right-to-Life Party in the new 23d District, which covers Rome and Utica upstate.
He also had a 50,000-vote Republican enrollment edge and the endorsements of the Conservative, Independence and Right-to-Life Parties.
It once held the balance of power in the state but now is only in fifth place on the ballot behind the Conservative and Right-to-Life Parties.
He ran in the general election on the lines of the Conservative Party and the Right-to-Life Party.
In the general election he was the nominee of both the Conservative and Right-to-Life Parties and defeated Eve to be elected Mayor.
Because of that contest and a county court primary in the Conservative and Right-to-Life Parties, all the Suffolk polling places will be open.
The Right-to-Life Party has endorsed Mr. LoGrande.
The Right-to-Life Party generally accounted for 1 to 3 percent of the total of votes cast in Staten Island general elections.