No Treason

This post was originally made at Praxeology.net, as part of a “To Paul or not to Paul” series about Ron Paul. I think it’s interesting that 18 months ago, Rod Long defined his position as such (emphasis mine),

I don’t support Ron Paul’s candidacy, then, because my own talents, proclivities, and commitments lie with the Agorist and left-libertarian projects, and I value the promotion of those projects over the short-term benefits that Paul’s candidacy might gain at the expense of those projects. But I can’t see that this preference is compulsory for everybody. Even if every libertarian ought to be an Agorist and a cultural lefty (and so they ought! – there are limits to my Aristotelean pluralism), it seems to me that it does not follow that every libertarian ought to make the trade-off between those long-run projects and the possible short-run gains from Paul’s candidacy the same way I do.

I’m all for people changing their mind or revising their assessments, but in light of Rod Long declaring that he will run for the LP Chair in Alabama, I can’t help wondering if he no longer values agorist and left-libertarian projects over politics.

A shift in time preference may be afoot.  Perhaps the left-libertarian capital stock has been depleted, and long term projects have to be abandoned by the master builder.

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The Libertarian Party’s Big Tent is more like an umbrella.  These are some of the most petty, insecure, somewhat retarded, self-aggrandizing and unimaginative people in the world.

Courtesy of Last Free Voice, the LP takes down a poll that gets a radical response, after being chastised for not being radical enough.  You’d think they would learn their lesson, and stop putting up polls about liberty, when they don’t even understand the basics of libertarianism themselves.

IT IS NOT LEW ROCKWELL’S JOB TO EDUCATE YOU!  Even if he is your libertarian daddy.

Seems to me, the LP has one flavour, and that is vanilla.  They are so vanilla, someone could mistake them for white latex paint, and as David Nolan recently alluded to in a Lew Rockwell podcast, there is no point in having a 3rd party if it is not going to be radical.

With the money drying up and the results stuck on stuck, seems to me the LP is just a big parody of what a radical 3rd party should be.

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Today was exciting, because it was the day that former (some say current) neocon neolibertarian Bob Barr decided to melt his campaign down. Not that it was much of a campaign, he struggled to get on ballots, he struggled to differentiate himself from the other candidates (informing people you are different, “Bob Barr is different from the Bob Barr you know, and Bob Barr is also not John McCain”) and he has struggled to create any energy or excitement about his campaign.

So today, I tried to post on the Bob Barr 2008 blog in the comments, and the site went down for what seemed to be a long time, then it came back, but comments were turned off.

So I posted a comment to another post from today, and it was moderated, and has been censored, with later comments showing up on the site, but not mine.

Now my comment wasn’t rude, mean etc. but it was critical. I believe I posted, “Is today the day the Barr campaign implodes?”

Regardless, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to spin control for the shenanigans perpetrated by the Barr campaign today. I mean, big deal if Shane Cory has a tiny ego and the Barr staff have to sock puppet post to their own campaign blog to defend Bob’s lousy actions. Even censorship is not surprising, as Bob was the least libertarian of all of the potential LP candidates at the convention! Statism for the win Bob and Shane!

So I also want to point out what mental midgets the LP are. Read this,

I have been hearing a lot from many LP Members about concerns over Bob Barr not attending Ron Paul’s press conference.

However, before you form an opinion, perhaps you may want to consider the facts and not rely on blogs for your news.

Guess where that was posted? Yep, on an LP blog.

The LP is a joke. They select a former CIA agent, and neocon mega-statist to be their leader, and he can only pull that selection off, by making a deal with his VP Wayne Allyn Root, whom Barr threw under the bus today.

So the LP compromises on quality, integrity and ability (blog posting an advisory not to read blogs for news), and now is performing what FSK might term, “the Death March“, pathetic antics meant to distract from and apologize for the shortcomings of Bob Barr and his stillborn campaign, by blaming it on someone else they seek to eject from the liberty message political sphere.

Next year, Ron Paul will be in Congress. Bob Barr will be a memory of when the LP sold it’s soul for electoral success, instead of principled gains towards a libertarian future.

Almost 12 hours after Barr stood up the Campaign for Liberty, the future still belongs to Ron Paul.

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