Wayne Root to run for Senate as a Republican

[erowe1]

for me, Sharron Angle >>>>>>>>>>>> W.A.R.

Interesting. Why is that?

 

[sailingaway]

He'll probably be a better Senator than most. As far as I'm concerned I think he'd be a great replacement over Reid.

He makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Heh. The Libertarians don't seem heartbroken.

They should, their party membership just declined 1.388% with this announcement.

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

He'll probably be a better Senator than most. As far as I'm concerned I think he'd be a great replacement over Reid.

Before you can get to specific policy differences you have to be able to trust the person. I don't trust Root. He just makes me feel dirty every time I hear him speak or read something he wrote. He's garbage.

 

[FrankRep]

Turncoat

Ron Paul is a Republican.

 

[The Dude]

Before you can get to specific policy differences you have to be able to trust the person. I don't trust Root. He just makes me feel dirty every time I hear him speak or read something he wrote. He's garbage.

Do you trust Harry Reid? Sure, Root is sleazy and I certainly won't be donating to his campaign, but if he unseats Harry Reid, isn't that a gain, however small for liberty? I certainly don't think Root is a hardcore neocon like McCain or Lieberman.
http://www.rootforamerica.com/Issues.html

 

[Shotdown1027]

They should, their party membership just declined 1.388% with this announcement.

Um, how do you figure?

Wayne leaving was good for all parties involved.

 

[cindy25]

Ron Paul ran as the Libertarian candidate for president in 1988, and then for congress again as a Republican

the party does not matter, its just a vehicle. I am just afraid Root is by his recent statements becoming neo-con

 

[jkob]

Jeez, him leaving the LP makes them just that more attractive. He had been saying he was going to run for president as a Libertarian for a while so I guess he gave that up.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

The LP's experiment with taking in politicians with an apparent neo-con history like WAR and Barr was premised on the idea that the party was open to accepting people who were evolving into consistent Libertarians. In the short run, it was felt we could benefit reputation wise from attracting 'serious' people who had experience getting elected to high office (Barr), or had other gifts (Root has a Prof. Harold Hill or Bill Clinton-like 'spellbinder' speaking style, especially when experienced in person).

Longer term, they were expected to complete their evolution over to our mindset. Alas, neither ever fulfilled that 'Damascus Road' promise. But it's not as if the LP turned down such people from even trying, which no doubt would have brought the LP criticism in the other direction, as a party that was hyper-exclusionary and unable to give potentially major converts a chance.

 

[QWDC]

I hope a real liberty candidate soundly beats him in the 2016 senate primary. Does Nevada have any liberty talent? Since RP supporters control the GOP I'd say so.

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

This is why I don't belong to any party, nor do I vote party lines.

awhile back, everybody and their brother were claiming to be "libertarian".
Friggin' Glen Beck claimed to be a libertarian.

Hell,, I don't generally call myself a libertarian,, though I fit the definition better than some.
All this Party bullshit just muddies the water.

Sean Hannity claimed to be a libertarian, as did Bill O'Reilly. I'm not kidding.

 

[Raudsarw]

I absolutely loathe Root. He has no understanding of liberty at all. He is pro-business, not pro-liberty. Unprincipled hack.

 

[KingNothing]

Opportunist/Political Hack.

Truth in advertising.

This announcement certainly does explain some of the absurd, hacky, Republican-pandering, nonsense he's put out lately.

WAR is a complete zilch to me. If he wins, which he won't, he'll have a chance to change my opinion, which he won't.

 

[KingNothing]

Sean Hannity claimed to be a libertarian, as did Bill O'Reilly. I'm not kidding.

Yep. They always say they're "libertarians" and "conservatives" which is odd because they almost always fall right in line with a Republican party that is in nearly every instance extremely un-libertarian and un-conservative.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I absolutely loathe Root. He has no understanding of liberty at all. He is pro-business, not pro-liberty. Unprincipled hack.

Yep. They always say they're "libertarians" and "conservatives" which is odd because they almost always fall right in line with a Republican party that is in nearly every instance extremely un-libertarian and un-conservative.

Hannity, O'Reilly, WAR... Is there a sub-type of libertarian called "Gordon Gekko libertarians"?

 

[trey4sports]

W.A.R. is unique in the sense that he is pretty hawkish on foreign policy (on par with McCain and Bush) but yet he is much better on domestic policy.

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

Do you trust Harry Reid? Sure, Root is sleazy and I certainly won't be donating to his campaign, but if he unseats Harry Reid, isn't that a gain, however small for liberty? I certainly don't think Root is a hardcore neocon like McCain or Lieberman.
http://www.rootforamerica.com/Issues.html

Not really. I prefer my enemies out in the open then I can see them coming for me. Root seems the type that would stab you when you turn your back. Plus he would damage our "liberty brand".