In 2008, Mike Gravel ran for president as a Democrat, then as a Libertarian. Adam Kokesh is running for Congress as a Republican with the support of many Ron Paul supporters and Libertarians. Kokesh has been involved with the Libertarian Party in the past. In the following Youtube clip, Mike Gravel endorses Adam Kokesh in his bid for Congress:
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Personally i would not trust Kokesh. He is a master of spin and seems to be quite opportunistic. I’m a left libertarian and i don’t know if i could trust Adam with my civil liberties. He does not seem to respect people’s privacy.
He is such a failure in believing the concept that the GOP can be “restored”. He should have gone third or indy from the beginning.
The polls are in and Adam Kokesh has lost the primary.
I had met Adam Kokesh several times during Paul’s campaign and was impressed with him each time. Although running as a Republican, he is not the neocon type. He is a true fiscal conservative, and like Gravel he will appeal to the anti-war movement (if there is still one left). He is a fine choice for Congress, a nice alternative to the career politicians occupying both parties.
What’s this? No Milnes comment?
He’s a Ron Paul minion, but he served time for heckling John McCain so I repect him for that.
Yet another group which
[a] did the Reform/ Deform Party and the Constitution Party ‘thing’ and held a civil war
[b] did the Constitution Party ‘thing’ and could not decide if it was a secular public administration partisan group or a sneaky snarkie church
BTW, it turns out that Adam Kokesh will actually have an opponent in the Republican primary. The man is an engineer named Tom Mullins. Judging from his website, he supports withdrawing the troops from Iraq and “frank public discussion of the potential consequences of troop removal from Afghanistan”. However he also worried about “nuclear threat from both North Korea and Iran”.
see:
http://www.mullinsforcongress.com/issues-foreignpolicy.html
meant to say: “I am not opposed to the idea, but don’t think it should be the exclusive focus of Campaign for Liberty members.”
Melty,
Did this book actually come out? I know Nelson Hultberg has been encouraging the formation of a new third party for years. He I am not opposed to the idea, but don’t think should be the exclusive focus of Campaign for Liberty members. In some states this might be a good option, in others it is a waste of time & money due to the uphill ballot access laws. What works in one place might not be viable in another, and we shouldn’t rule out any options.
now I remember . . . Nelson Hultberg, and the book Ron Paul Revolution: Why We Must Form a Third Political Party to Win It
Is that idea getting any traction within the Campaign for Liberty?
If Kokesh, Schiff and Rand Paul are unsuccessful in their bids, will they have achieved anything?
For the most part, if any of them win, that will be a reasonably big deal. Ron Paul is nearing the end of his career, so I’d like to see someone in Congress who’s L to carry on that tradition.
Who wrote the book arguing that Campaign for Liberty should form itself into its own political party? . . . forgot the name of the book too
infiltrationism (or entryism) is good strategy if a bunch o folks get into office and then switch over to the party that really represents them and all at once
that’s how the Whigs got supplanted by the Republicans
Sluttiness: hormones, OCD, habit, messed up child hood ????????
I am a political slut
Wasn’t Kokesh originally working or at least talking with the Modern Whig Party folks to run on as a MWP rep? I think some people from the MWP leadership are now working with Kokesh.
In any case, Ross, I think Kokesh’s campaign should be analyzed together with Rand Paul and Schiff’s, all of whom are gaining a lot of their support as a result of the explicitly infiltrationist strategy of Campaign for Liberty activists.
I guess he’s still a registered Democrat, or thinks of himself as a Democrat. He’s not really a partisan anything. He was a Democratic Senator, a Democratic presidential candidate, a Libertarian presidential candidate, he endorsed a Green for president and a Green for Congress and a Libertarian for Congress and an independent for Congress, and now he’s gone and endorsed a Republican for Congress. Kos from Daily Kos called him a “political slut.”
d.eris – I think this is different from most instances of “infiltration.” This is a candidate who has a chance of getting elected working with a party that’s making him more likely to get elected, rather than a group of people working to change a party. In other words, it’s less about changing the Republican party than it is about this single election. At least that’s what it seems like.
Or probably he supports democracy, unlike the so-called “Democratic” Party.
Gravel at 0:40: “I saythis as a Democrat.”
Has he rejoined the Democratic Party?
Yeah I would have no problem voting for the individual depending on his stances.
Even though the LP has experienced a tremendous amount of growth, it appears the Campaign for Liberty and Ron Paul followers are moving people more towards the RLC than to the LP. Right now this would not necessarily be a bad group to ally oneself with. Both working for the cause of liberty, just in different terms. When we can reach the point of squabbling over “how small” then we are in a good spot.
I prefer to see people as individuals rather than as representatives of a group. Similarly, I vote for individual candidates, not surrogates for a political party.
By embracing the infiltrationist strategy represented by Kokesh, Rand Paul and Peter Schiff and allying themselves with a party that openly stands against freedoms and values libertarians claim to hold dear, so-called “libertarians” are squandering a precious opportunity to take a number of seats away from the duopoly parties in 2010
He’s in Korea again, actually.
Nice! I was wondering what Senator Gravel was up to after the thing in Korea.