You lost my vote, Bob. You could have easily salvaged it by admitting you were wrong to shun Dr. Paul and apologizing to your supporters.
You are STILL attacking him. Saying the press conference was about “one man.” It’s insulting to those of us that admire Dr. Paul a great deal. The issue here seems to be that you percieve that the conference was all about Ron Paul…. so you being all about Bob Barr (and not about the historic moment that this could have been, a grand coalition of third parties), you decided to boycott instead of attending.
Even if you were right about the event, what harm could have come to you for going? Do you really think Ron Paul supporters who would have considered voting for you would EVER vote for McKinney? Until yesterday, I thought I would never consider voting for Nader. But your antics in the past 24 hours have solidified another vote for Nader in my state.
Face the facts, you really blew it with this one, and no amount of spin is going to convince anyone who has respected and supported Ron Paul over the years that he has, overnight, turned into the egomaniac that people have claimed you embody (and perhaps, it seems, rightfully so). This election is about LIBERTY. It’s about the things Americans have in common that the two major parties ignore. This election is about returning our country to the people and giving us back our essential liberties. This election is NOT about Bob Barr. If you can realize that and apologize, I’ll reconsider giving you my vote. If you continue in these childish antics, me and a lot of my fellow libertarians (and Libertarians) are going to take their support elsewhere.
Also, it seems that a great number of the posts on the Bob Barr for President official blog are extremely pro-Barr and anti-Paul. A sharp turn from the posts yesterday. Yesterday they stopped people from posting, and today it seems they might be deleting posts that they don’t agree with. I hope that’s not true, because censorship by a Libertarian candidate would be just about the worst thing (s)he could possibly do.
Is the Libertarian Party really this stupid? Are they so completely stubborn and out of touch that they're willing to turn their backs on the standard bearer of the libertarian movement in this country just because he isn't officially backing their candidate? I believe in the Party and the movement, and I think these sorts of blustering antics are going to do more to harm us than anything any opponent could offer. Unless the Libertarian Party moves away from these disgusting attacks on Ron Paul and the stubborn "with-us-or-against-us" mentality that I only thought Obama fanatics and Republican neocons has mastered, I'm going to leave the Party. Where I'll go, I don't know... but as they say... anywhere is better than here.
I'm from Virginia and I respect Bill Redpath a great deal, I'd be really interested to hear his thoughts on all of this. He doesn't seem to be the bitter egomaniac that have hijacked our Party from us.
