“Austrian Economist” blames Kubby for the election of Barr as nominee by failing to endorse Mike Gravel instead of Mary Ruwart.Earlier that morning, I have it on good word that Kubby indicated to the Gravel campaign that he wanted the Senator to “be the standard bearer.” Very encouraging news. So where was this sentiment when […]
As each Presidential candidate was eliminated from the race on each ballot, the eliminated candidates were given an opportunity to speak to the convention. Many took the opportunity to endorse another candidate.Christine Smith was the most notorious in her angry speech slamming the convention for turning over the LP to conservative Republicans. Ms. Smith was […]
If there’s one thing that can be said of this year’s contestants for the Presidential nomination, is that many of them received lovely consolation prizes.Mary Ruwart is on the Libertarian National Committee as an at-large member. Mike Jingozian and won the vice-chairmanship of the LNC. And of course Wayne Root got the VP slot.It’s this […]
Fear is the path to the Dark Side. I never should have feared anything about this convention.I’ll come clean about what it was that set me off writing this earlier post about the threat to remove Barr from the ballot in certain states if he was nominated.Arthur Torry, who was openly telling people about his […]
Somehow my computer ate an entire post about how the platform debate never became the contentious affair that I feared it would be. Written on the day of the platform committee debates, it didn’t post due to wi-fi problems, and somehow it got deleted off my computer in the process.The backstory is that the 2006 […]
One of the big gripes of the purists/radicals about Bob Barr and Wayne Root was that they were new to the Libertarian Party, and were probably just Republicans politically cross dressing to get at our presidential ticket (the “neo-con takeover” as some called it).Well, two bloggers have been reading some books by the Libertarian Presidential […]
Got home Wednesday. The cat missed me.Got back to work yesterday.Got caught up on sleep last night.I’ll be writing up some thoughts on the convention past soon.
Okay, I confess, this is not just be WiFi situation that’s keeping me from. Blogging. I mean why sit around Blogging when there’s socializing to be done. Look, there’s two people talking, I gotta go jump into the conversation. Bye! listenPowered by Jott
Which partially accounts for the radio silence since early Saturday.That, and the blogging software I was using to post to blogger ate some posts. It may have had something to do with the wi-fi problem, but they still should have been there.
Last night was one where I wasn’t doing much schmoozing, going on. About a dozen of us from the convention went down to Coors Field to watch the Colorado Rockies vs the New York Mets.Enough Mets fans were amonngst us, I became a Mets fan for a day. May Red Sox Nation forgive me.The game […]
An objection was raised over the addition of delegates, by Arthur Torry of Massachusetts. He and a few others, out of fear of some campaigns trying to bring in more of their supporters as delegates.Of course, so long as they are following all appropriate rules, Torry’s objection means that basically he objects to adding new […]
The big bugaboo of convention after convention was the Statement of Principles. To change the statement of principles we have to have a 7/8ths vote of all credentialed delegates (as opposed to the usual method of just those present and voting) This has made changing the statement nigh-impossible.There is a great amount of support for […]
This just in:DENVER, May 23 (UPI) — Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., a leader in the war on drugs, has switched sides to seek the presidency with the Libertarian Party, colleagues say.Weeks late on the presidential announcement. Years late on the party switch.
The wrestler known as Kane, has been seen at the convention.Not by me though, he would be hard to miss.
…not running for President. He’s not even in Denver. He’s joining the surge of tourists this weekend in Maine with his family.