Daniel Larison is a well-known blogger in paleoconservative circles and runs the highly-trafficked blog “Eunomia“,which is supported by The American Conservative. Larison is highly regarded as a paleoconservative luminary and was previously supporting Bob Barr, until snubgate that is. Now he has endorsed Chuck Baldwin.
The objective in supporting Barr was supposed to be that he would provide someone who would unite both Paul-supporting libertarians with cultural conservatives who remembered Barr’s past record and wanted a conservative alternative to McCain. However, Ron Paul’s endorsement of Baldwin has made clear that the better candidate to support to pursue that end is Chuck Baldwin.
Larison also admits to being a member of the New Mexico Constitution Party, but casts doubts on the Constitution Party’s organization. He ends the blog post by telling people to vote for Chuck Baldwin for President.
25 responses so far ↓
1 WinstonSmith // Sep 30, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Wow, I’m shocked. A paleoconservative endorsing Baldwin? Who’d thunk it?
2 Trent Hill // Sep 30, 2008 at 11:36 pm
You DID see the part where he WAS supporting Barr,right?
3 WinstonSmith // Sep 30, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Yes,
And he makes it clear that he is nothing more than a Paul lemming who will do as Paul tells him.
4 G.E. // Sep 30, 2008 at 11:48 pm
And WinstonSmith is nothing but a statist lemming who believes the government is always right — a perfect man to support Bob “CIA” Barr.
5 WinstonSmith // Sep 30, 2008 at 11:51 pm
It seems GE is unable to think past the same tired talking point.
Sadly internet insults really mean nothing. Although it does put your level of intelligence on display every time you use it. Unfortunately that level isn’t very high.
6 Trent Hill // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:02 am
“And he makes it clear that he is nothing more than a Paul lemming who will do as Paul tells him.”
Spin all you want pal. This endorsement means sometihng in the paleo community.
7 Spence // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:05 am
If we’re lucky, Barr could get the worst vote totals EVER and the LP would finally fracture and consume itself amongst the largest pieces!!! =]
What a happy day that would be.
8 Spence // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:06 am
(But of course, not likely. [The LP dying part] ^)
9 AnthonyD // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:30 am
Whats the problem? This is great news for anyone supporting Barr!
Hopefully, all the konspiracy kooks/soft-core racists/christofacists/homophobes will follow this paleoconservative endorsement into the Constitution Party and down the drainhole into the sewage of the dark ages.
10 Trent Hill // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:47 am
AnthonyD,
Daniel Larison is pretty well respected,by Paleos and Libertarians alike. Universally agreed with? No. But respected.
He isnt a racist, a conspiracy kook, a christofascist—but probably IS a homophobe. The man is an intellectual and an academic–and the Barr campaign should hope this sort of thing doesnt happen too often.
11 Robert Milnes // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:09 am
Hmmmmm, in this particular volley of cyberwit I seem to agree with G.E.
12 Sivarticus // Oct 1, 2008 at 3:30 am
The only good thing is that this is turning out to be such a crushing defeat for Bad Barr that he will probably slink right out of the LP after the election, never to be seen again.
13 Spence // Oct 1, 2008 at 3:54 am
Cept of course, the delegates that actually voted him in will probably still remain.
14 MattSwartz // Oct 1, 2008 at 10:52 am
Baldwin’s profile is ridiculously low for the election being a month away. What are they doing?
15 Trent Hill // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Matt,
With no fundraising, no Ballot Access in California or PA, Chuck Baldwin being sick, and a low base of volunteers this year—I suspect they’re doing what they can, and they’ll break the CP vote total records.
16 Steve LaBianca // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Sivarticus // Oct 1, 2008 at 3:30 am
The only good thing is that this is turning out to be such a crushing defeat for Bad Barr that he will probably slink right out of the LP after the election, never to be seen again.
One can only hope . . .
17 Coming Back to the LP // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:15 pm
A writer who is known by almost noone who writes for a blog known by a handful more than noone, who is an admitted member of the Constitution Party decides to support his own party’s candidate.
This is not only NOT NEWS and not important, there is no evidence that it swings even one single vote to Baldwin.
Even the writer’s own vote was likely going to be cast for his own party’s nominee, no matter what he might have said in some unvisited corner of electronic annonymity.
Net gain for Baldwin.
zero votes
18 darolew // Oct 1, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Lol, I admit I was thinking similar to CBttLP. “A Constitution Party member who I’ve never heard of has declared on his blog he plans to vote for his party’s own nominee? Well, OK…”
Though I’m not really involved in paleocon circles, so for all I know Daniel Larison could actually be well-known.
19 Trent Hill // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Danil Larison writes for, and maintains a blog for, The American Conservative–the paleoconservative answer to Reason Magazine.
20 AnthonyD // Oct 1, 2008 at 3:41 pm
“The only good thing is that this is turning out to be such a crushing defeat for Bad Barr that he will probably slink right out of the LP after the election, never to be seen again.”
The only people who are going to slink out of the party after this election are the purists. Chased out, tormented, mortified of what they fear the most: their own irrelevance. Hence, their every desire is to hold the party to a small, pointless debate club that they can still hold sway over.
Well, to quote Col. Troutman from First Blood, “It’s over, Johnny.”
21 darolew // Oct 1, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I guess writing for The American Conservative (which I am familiar with) does make him somewhat notable—by IPR standards at the very least. =P
22 Trent Hill // Oct 1, 2008 at 4:27 pm
We’ve covered the thoughts of David Nolan and Walter Block here—Larison is just as notable.
23 darolew // Oct 1, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Walter Block and David Nolan have Wikipedia articles, and Daniel Larison doesn’t. Thus, he’s less notable than them. =P
24 Jeremy Young // Oct 1, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Larison’s a big deal.
Trent, I like Baldwin, but how exactly do you see him breaking Peroutka’s vote total record with Keyes stealing all his votes in CA?
25 Trent Hill // Oct 1, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Jeremy,
Peroutka doesnt hold the vote total record–Howard Phillips (2000) does. He had ballot access in California, PA, Texas, and Illinois.
Baldwin is still going to beat it though,because of the Ron Paul supporters.
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