Barr, as a nearly lifelong government employee U.S. attorney and CIA) has spent neither the time or effort to learn economics . . and why should he have? He was a part of the government machine. Free market economics and the market is the antidote to government action, of which Barr has been a part of most of his adult life.

It has every right,so long as it delegates can defend said positions.

If you are looking for an invitation–I’v got friends who can extend it formally. If I thought the CP was worth saving, I’d have initiated said invasion long ago–it would have been easy. Stacking the deck in FL, GA, MS, MI, IL, and several others could have been accomplished very easily. Add that to the already liberty-loving minorities in TX, NV, CA (the non-Noonan faction), ID and elsewhere–and that ship is sunk.

Fortunately, I dont think its a path worth walking. It could be done, and easily, but to what end? At the end of it all, you’d have a smaller base, a competeing party made up of the former non-constitutionalists, no financial backing, and a party born in fire—not exactly a great starting point.

I don’t see this in the offing, though.

Perhaps if we were invited by whatever contingent of anti-protectionist, neutral on gays, less hawkish on immigration constitutionalists exists, we’d give it a go. But after seeing a neocon takeover of our own party, I don’t think we want to do the same to the CP, which has every right in the world to advance anti-capitalism and social puritanism.

If libertarians of the Ron Paul stripe took over the CP–it’d be a great thing. They’d find themselves fully welcomed by the members in PA, CT, LA, TX, ID, CA, and NV–and I suspect this would constitute a majority. The conservative non-constitutionalists based out of most other states would likely just cut off their financial investments and ballot access would suffer seriously. Still–for Ron Paul-types to fully takeover the Constitution Party would be fitting.

I expect its a net positive. But the CP is so at odds with Libertarian philosophy, that if Ron Paul does convince Libertarians to take over this party, its good news and bad news.

I would imagine that current leadership would be out, the platform rewritten, by 2012.

Chuck might find he’s now got too much of a good thing.

Now I see why people pay you to write.

I just need to figure out why people pay ME…

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