Will the Libertarian Party Field A Candidate Against Presidential Candidate Rand Paul?

[r3volution 3.0]

apparently, libertarians aren't as superficial as you are.
they don't care what you do for a living, they care what your ideas are.
You are an example of the general populations superficiality.
An example why the LP will never win. the problem is the superficiality of the minds of people, not the LP running waitresses.

There's nothing wrong with my plan to jump off a cliff; the only problem is that gravity is in effect.

The superficiality of voters is, like gravity, a fact of nature; it will never change.

Any plan which refuses to recognize this fact of nature is a bad plan.

 

[Christian Liberty]

So did you push for the LP-NY to put someone on the ballot other than Bob Barr? Or did you just go along with that?

I didn't know anything about politics back then, but thinking back on it... Bob Barr was terrible. And while Mary Ruwart was objectively good on 99.9% of issues, getting her into a national debate of any kind would be one of the stupidest things the liberty movement could do, IMO. So stupid that I'm surprised nobody in the mainstream parties made sure it happened. Ruwart has defended the legality of child porn which is NOT something we want stupid people to be able to identify libertarianism with.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

So what you're basically saying is I should tell some of my registered DEM young friends to become active in the county DEM party and push the philosophy of liberty there, and in the GOP as well?

I'm suggesting one have liberty people be prepared to run as either a Republican or Democrat in an open seat situation, as the best solution to getting more liberty people into office. If a seat in a Democratic district opens up, run a Ron Paul Democrat in the primary, and if a seat in a Republican district opens up, run a Ron Paul Republican in the primary.

If you can't find either in a given race, go to the LP and fund a candidate to run in the major party primary (perhaps in addition to their running third party). Use the local LP, CP, TP and CFL universe as the vetting system for new candidates, and as a coalition base for liberty activists. Our support infrastructure should be grassroots based, outside the trappings of either major or minor parties, so we can use the strengths of both, without being bogged down by the disadvantages of both. We don't have to necessarily nest in or be dependent on a major party structure, just opportunistically seize upon each open seat primary and election case where victory is more probable.

So did you push for the LP-NY to put someone on the ballot other than Bob Barr? Or did you just go along with that?

The problems with Barr did not fully emerge until over the course of his campaign, at which point we were stuck with the nominee.