Mike Renzulli writes:
The Maricopa County Libertarian Party held its bi-annual convention, elected new officers and passed some resolutions.
Specifically, the MCLP is now on record in opposing the death penalty, has passed a modified version of the Barr resolution rejected by the LNC at their meeting in San Diego last week (Except paragraphs 1 and 2 were replaced with:
WHEREAS, Former U.S. Representative Bob Barr obtained the Libertarian Party’s Presidential nomination by making representations in less than good faith; and), and is now official opposed to the so-called *Fair Tax*.
We have formed a study committee to consider revising a resolution regarding global warming and, unfortunately, rejected a strongly-worded resolution with regards to immigration. However, it was not that the committeemen and women assembled were anti-immigration, they felt the resolution I
proposed was too wordy or went in too many directions on the issue.I will attempt to readdress this issue at the Arizona LP convention at the end of January.
@7 He means instant message. -smile-
Barr has not made it clear to me that he has given up any plans for the LP. He’s spent the last two years screwing things up. So, yes, having state LP affiliates censure him for his wrongdoing in the campaign seems like a good idea. Get these on record now.
Root is running in 2012. Sure, it’s years away. So what? Thinking about the future and planning for it are free, and easy. The only time you shouldn’t be thinking about the future is when it is already too late to affect it.
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. and get down to party business. Every LP leader is embarrassing libertarians.
I’m sure many are, but it does not count as “news.” If you think there is something newsworthy about some of the brass tacks work people are doing, please write [email protected] and let us know what it is, and why readers would be interested if it is not readily apparent.
Unfortunately, just as with “real world” news, to some extent, “if it bleeds, it leads.” Conflict and drama get people’s attention. Two cars that collide tend to get a whole lot more people looking at them than those same two cars would if they avoid colliding.
On the other hand, there is such a thing as the “boy who cried wolf” phenomenon. The BTP is the primary example of this. They have so much bickering, and so little else, going on that it has become mind-numbingly boring rather than interesting and attention grabbing, even for a strung out minor party drama junkie like myself who is actually IN the BTP.
Trent, is your apostrophe key broken? You always put “im” instead of “I’m.”
On this issue, im going to have to agree with Druckenmiller.
Holding Mr. Barr to immune to being critique is akin to holding Mr. Bush to be immune from his actions.
Did I say don’t critique him? Actually, libertarians and Libertarians have filled the internet to the gills with “critiques” of Barr from the beginning. Some formed their own goddamn party over it.
Right now, this constant hand-wringing, whining, womanly attitude just makes the LP look a disorganized and inconsistent group of children. “Let’s excommunicate Angela Keaton! No, goddamit, Barr’s to blame! Let’s issue worthless press releases!”
Druckenmiller to the LP: Shut. The. Fuck. Up. and get down to party business. Every LP leader is embarrassing libertarians. Sundwall’s whining about Root, when 2012 is 3.5 years away; Nolan’s still whining about Barr, when the election is over. Don’t like Barr? Don’t nominate him again.
Rant over.
I disagree with Cyrano and Jim. The Catholic Trotskyist Party, having only one member, has little to no examination from within itself, and it has already entered itself in a fusion with the Democratic Party, whose candidate, Barack H. Obama, was victorious.
An unexamined candidacy provides no lessons for future candidates.
@1 – I disagree. If LP members doesn’t critique what we don’t like, we are likely to see behavior repeated in a future candidate, just criticism is part an parcel to identifying what the LP membership wants.
I don’t agree with one item in Nolan’s bill of particulars but I find the other three to be quite valid.
Holding Mr. Barr to immune to being critique is akin to holding Mr. Bush to be immune from his actions.
As an LP member who admires Mr. Barr’s accomplishments as a Presidential candidate that doesn’t prevent me or any other LP member from critiquing what Mr. Barr did (or did badly).
Forming circular firing squads is the action of winners with a great attitude.