No Treason

I want to be upfront. I like Ron Paul. I like his approach, his character and his message. It’s not perfect, but it is active and it is encouraging people to discover Mises, Rothbard, Lysander Spooner amongst other libertarian heroes.

That said, his staff during the political campaign for President was not considered very good by the people following Ron Paul. There seemed to be a distinct lack of organization and expertise.

Now that Paul has wound down his political campaign, and has started the “Campaign for Liberty“, he’s held over some of his staff, and brought some so-called “grassroots leaders” on board as well. Unfortunately, thus far the results are similar to what happened with the Presidential Campaign.

For example, Jesse Benton, and the organizers of the Rally for the Republic, apparently are not aware that guest speaker and former Paul surrogate Barry Goldwater Jr. has sold out to support partisan politics and John McCain. Surely it will not do for a John McCain endorser to be a headliner at the shadow convention, and yet Benton on a recent satellite radio interview, was unaware that Goldwater had come out for McCain some time ago, stumbling to respond to the host.

Then take the recent Ticket Bomb, in which half of the tickets were sold for the shadow convention, to be held at the Target Center in Minnesota. This was typical campaign thinking, they would create, manage and discharge the bomb. The only use they had for supporters was to do some word of mouth promotion, possibly paste up a banner or three, and buy tickets.

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