Jim Davidson writes:
The current deal with Barr that he won’t run again in 2012 and the apparent deal to anoint Wayne Root as the presidential nominee in 2012 is part of that same tradition of betraying the individual, dues-paying members of the party. Obviously, members of the LP think that they get to have meetings of their local and state committees to choose candidates and delegates to represent them on the ballot and at the national convention. There apparently is a coterie of elitists in the party who think that they own the LP. So, instead of the delegates to the national convention choosing the nominee, the process is corrupted by back room dealing, by elitists making deals with other elitists, and by similar sleaze and filth.
This kind of thing has to end. It has to be exposed for the cesspool of indecency and corruption that it is.
Obviously, many people who voted for Mary Ruwart went to the national convention of the LP thinking that their votes mattered. And, to a considerable extent, right up until the fifth ballot when she was the leading vote recipient, they did. But, the sleaze and filth determined that it was in their best interests to have Barr the nominee this year, to have Root the VP this year and the nominee in 2012, and they cut a deal.
It isn’t right that this kind of deal be used to determine who the nominee is. It isn’t ethical to disenfranchise the members of the party in this way. And it is not just me that thinks it stinks to high heaven.
Root removed himself from the presidential ticket and endorsed Barr (barf) because the Reform (retard) Caucus was worried Ruwart was going to win. In exchange, Root was guaranteed that Barf would not run again in 2012 when, it appears, he will be the nominee. After watching it live on C-SPAN, I am convinced this was all pre-planned way before the convention.
There has been the most money corruption this election than I have every seen in my life time in an election!
http://goodtimepolitics.com/2008/06/15/al-sharpton-soaks-up-boycott-bucks-stirring-racism-for-money/
Not.
Everything that mattered was in the voting. There is no back room, no way to override the will of the delegates. No way can Root’s endorsement of Barr be truthfully called anything other than it was: an endorsement. The delegates could have ignored it, but they didn’t because the vast majority of them didn’t want Mary to be our front person. This was not decided in any fictional back room, it was decided on the convention floor by a fair vote.
Jim, please stop making stuff up. You’re out past the edge of lying about what happened.
Mary lost through her own efforts. She completely mishandled the child sexuality flap, and it cost her dearly. Cry foul all you want, but the truth is the truth.
dinentery, the truth is that the so-called reform causus actually represented, even if unknowingly, the limited-government original libertarians, who have finally taken the party back from the Rothbardian anarchist saboteurs. Google the 1972 Libertarian Party Platform and read the original Statement of Principles.
The civil war of 34 years is at an end, and you lost. Get used to it.
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The deal was offered to Ruwart first but she had cut a deal with kubby then the purist were not organized enough to get him elected as VP. Root want be our candidate in 2012 unless he bust his ass over the next 4 months. I do believe one his next event is being in the Pride parade in S.F.. that alone means he did more the Campagna 4 years ago( or how ever you spell his name).
Disinter no hard feelings I do love the debate you bring to the table :)