As I’ve written in the past, the LP is
primarily a social club.

All factions regard the LP as a social club, consciously or not. It’s been true for 30 years. It will be true 30 years from now.

We are not a real political party. We are a lodge, a social club, a dysfunctional family, an unruly tribe.

Read my link above, and see if I don’t make many of the points you may be considering.

Nor will anything be done about this. Most LP members want a social club, perhaps especially those who most loudly denounce the LP for being a social club.

The fact is nothing’s being done about it. It’s distracting.

It’s quite ingenious really.”

But hardly original. I’ve been hearing the same gripe about the LP going back decades.

Many people will respond to your theory by saying: “Well, sure. I’ve been saying that all along.”

(You want to call me that I might as well enjoy it…)

Susan – No big challenge for G.E. to know about my promises in Re: substitution. After all I posted them both here and on LFV…

I have no idea if Barr’s call was a response to them or not, maybe G.E. knows more than I do, maybe he’s just guessing… I’d like to think it had an impact, just because thinking that strokes my ego a bit… (I do my own ego-stroking, even if nobody else will – though I regularly thank the GF for stroking….never mind…)

As to who I’d vote for if the LP was to win Mass. – Frankly the odds are so low I haven’t really given it a lot of thought… Won’t be Barr, that’s a given since BEFORE Denver. Options include Phillies, (I did originally pledge to vote for him after all…) the BTP candidates Jay and Knapp (in keeping with the precedent set by McBride) or possibly a true Libertarian ticket chosen by me, say L. Neil Smith and Ms. Keaton… This is just sort of casual thought, I haven’t spent a lot of time worrying about it, I figure it is more important to pay attention to my protection against getting hit by a meteor or something like that…(odds are higher)

I’m just getting caught up on the days melodrama – we had a State Committee meeting this afternoon that took us away from the play-by-play…

I am not at liberty to discuss OUR exec session on this, but Barr is not as badly hurt as a result of today’s actions as he could have been… Further decisions are awaiting. The LNC is treading very close to a thin line that I will not consider it OK to cross, but they haven’t screwed the pooch yet… (but I don’t trust that gleam in Starr’s eye…)

(BTW, I am NOT the only Mass. Elector who isn’t voting for Barr, just the loudest…)

(How I wish I were under the influence of cynicism! =])

Would you share your evidence that the request from “the Barr campaign” was in response to Torrey’s threat?

While you’re at it, perhaps you could share your evidence that Redpath is the ‘proxy’ of the Barr campaign.

But that would be too much like responsible writing, and not nearly as interesting as the rumor-mongering, pot-stirring crap that passes for ‘news’ on so many blogs.