Comments on: Modern Whig Party adds two new state chapters http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/09/modern-whig-party-adds-two-new-state-chapters/ Covering America's third parties and independent candidates since May 2008 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:54:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Spence http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/09/modern-whig-party-adds-two-new-state-chapters/comment-page-1/#comment-13726 Spence Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:29:33 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=2240#comment-13726 You corporate statist fool. How dare you. The symbol of libertarianism is ONLY embodied in the Statue of Liberty. This is to show that we are indeed above everyone else. We, Libertarians, are not animals. We must not come off as such. We transcend every political ideology, so why should we lower ourselves to the same corporate branding every other party uses? ...Whoops, mixed my reply up with G.E.'s. In reality, I'm glad to see more people getting this idea. For a party that prides themselves on the free market, they do a poor job branding themselves. You corporate statist fool. How dare you. The symbol of libertarianism is ONLY embodied in the Statue of Liberty. This is to show that we are indeed above everyone else. We, Libertarians, are not animals. We must not come off as such. We transcend every political ideology, so why should we lower ourselves to the same corporate branding every other party uses?

…Whoops, mixed my reply up with G.E.’s.

In reality, I’m glad to see more people getting this idea. For a party that prides themselves on the free market, they do a poor job branding themselves.

]]> By: Andy Craig http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/09/modern-whig-party-adds-two-new-state-chapters/comment-page-1/#comment-13720 Andy Craig Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:16:36 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=2240#comment-13720 Though I do have to give them credit for doing something the LP should have done decades ago- come up with a unique party symbol that can be used, both by the LP and the media, to represent the party the same way the elephant and the donkey are used to represent the major parties. Using the Statue of Liberty doesn't make any sense- no one outside the LP will ever use it. I think the two best ideas would be a non-SoL torch (like the British Conservatives used to use) or, more in the elephant/donkey vein, a porcupine (symbolizing non-aggression). The Statue of Liberty is bland and so ubiquitous as a generic symbol of "patriotism" that it can never really be claimed by the LP as our "brand". /thinking past the Great Trainwreck of 2008 Though I do have to give them credit for doing something the LP should have done decades ago- come up with a unique party symbol that can be used, both by the LP and the media, to represent the party the same way the elephant and the donkey are used to represent the major parties. Using the Statue of Liberty doesn’t make any sense- no one outside the LP will ever use it. I think the two best ideas would be a non-SoL torch (like the British Conservatives used to use) or, more in the elephant/donkey vein, a porcupine (symbolizing non-aggression).

The Statue of Liberty is bland and so ubiquitous as a generic symbol of “patriotism” that it can never really be claimed by the LP as our “brand”.

/thinking past the Great Trainwreck of 2008

]]> By: Andy Craig http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/09/modern-whig-party-adds-two-new-state-chapters/comment-page-1/#comment-13718 Andy Craig Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:06:46 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=2240#comment-13718 Why don't we just cut right to the chase where every non-Republican/non-Democrat has their own individual political party and only votes for themselves? That'll change things! Why don’t we just cut right to the chase where every non-Republican/non-Democrat has their own individual political party and only votes for themselves?

That’ll change things!

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