So Very LP
Lee on Sep 11 2008 at 5:50 pm | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Libertarianism
What’s this? Bob Barr wanted Ronpaul as his veep? Take your eyes off the Libertarian Party for a minute and you miss a lot of foolishness. Our old friend Steve Newton fills us in on the amusing drama that ensued (Ronpaul said no BTW).
Now, I had been under the impression that Barr already had a vice presidential candidate and it turns out I was right. Evidently Barr sought to dump Wayne Allyn Root for Ronpaul, or Root dumped himself in honor of Ronpaul. Apparently Root had been controversial within the party for his support of the very uncontroversial war effort in Afghanistan.
Sometimes the LP can look like a bloody civil war in Lilliput, fought over possession of a discarded matchstick.
Alas, it also seems some Ronpaulists are now accusing Barr of being a Republican double agent, sent to destroy the Libertarian Party. As if Libertarians ever needed any assistance in doing that. Where Ronpaulists go paranoia follows though, and a faction within the LP has begun an effort to get the Libertarian National Committee to un-endorse its candidates for being clandestine conservative operatives.
So very LP.
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Do you think the LP will bleed enough votes away from McCain to be a problem?
In their dreams.
A serious Independent candidate with libertarian bona fides could do some damage, but that candidate does not exist this time around, and I cannot imagine such a candidate EVER coming out of the LP in its current form.