Charles has official ballot status in Colorado (9 electoral votes), Florida (27), and Tennessee (11). Arizona (10), and Montana (3) bring the total to 60, so far.

Keyes wouldn’t have agreed with the statement of principles anyway.

By the Misesian threshold, neither are “real” socialists.

And I do think that Paul would have excluded a legit Socialist/Communist. I also think he would have excluded Alan Keyes.

Nader and McKinney are pretty close to “explicitly socialist” and yes, I think Paul would have invited him or her.

The position of the Boston Tea Party is that private parties can invite anyone they please to debate and be interviewed. I believe in a free press with the freedom of association. I do not believe in a mandatory “fairness doctrine,” nor any other prior restraint on the press.

Bob Barr, as you may remember, threw a hissy fit and sued the pastor who had a presidential forum at his Brokeback Mountain (or was that Saddleback?) church. Why? If a nationally televised event involves just one candidate, or just two candidates, giving speeches or throwing fruit at each other, why would Bob Barr sue? How did that lawsuit uphold libertarian ideals?

The Boston Tea Party is just starting out, again, after the LP has gone and shot itself in the foot, again. We nearly faded away earlier this year, but the nomination of Barr drove many to our ranks. Many other incidents in the months since late May have driven many more to our ranks. We now have over 350 members on our national site and over 475 on our largest Facebook group. We’ve also gone to the trouble of endorsing about 16 LP candidates in various races.

When it was starting out, the LP had ballot access in two states, according to the Wikipedia entry on the topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Libertarian_Party#History

We have nominated our first presidential ticket, and Charles is on the ballot in three states. Apparently the LP hard liners don’t want to allow anyone else to play in their sand box. Happily, Revolution Broadcasting isn’t their sand box. And we’re very pleased to have our candidate in the Revolution Broadcasting debate.

You don’t have to like the fact that there is now another libertarian party in America. You do have to accept it. We’re here, and we’re here to stay. The more you screw up the LP, the more you corrupt the LP, the more you upset the state affiliates, the more you upset the Ron Paul people, the more members you drive to our ranks. We are now a fact of life.

You can try intimidation, bullying, insults, and all the other things that don’t work in your LP infighting squabbles. But the Boston Tea Party won’t go away.

I will. I am not going to be chair of the party after the convention in October, after my replacement is elected by the members. I do not want to hold the ring of power. But I’m going to continue to watch and amuse myself to think about how much better the LP is going to become now that there is healthy competition in the market.

If there were an explicitly socialist candidate who could win enough electoral votes, do you think Paul would have invited him/her on stage with him? I doubt it. And I think he would have been right.

The “ethic” is to give people a place to spread their message.

Then why havent the other minor party candidates been invited? Alan Keyes, Gloria Lariva, Gene Amondsen, Ted Weil, and Roger Calero are all on as many or more ballots than Charles Jay. Obviously there is SOME threshold.

As for your distate for my criticism–im not trying to SUE you for entry or disbarrment of certain candidates–it is perfectly consistent with libertarianism to suggest that some private function is not operating under a coherant ethic–and this one isnt.

That’s a wild accusation. You have any proof to go along with that “editorial” of yours about what motivates us at RevolutionBroadcasting?

Ron Paul’s press conference was about casting a vote for neither of the major parties.

I for one am sick of the fact that the reason why the “minor” parties stay “minor” is because their message is all but censored. G.E. has the right of it, if you think you can do better have at it. We are doing this as a service to the American voter. We are not making any money on any of this and we are a non-profit media outlet. So if you don’t like how it’s being run, that’s the price of FREE.