We should be LIBERTARIAN! We should stick to our libertarian principles and sell them to everyone.

I agree. But there are different ways to sell it and different people to whom it can be sold. To the extent it has been sold at all, it has been in a conservative-leaning light to conservative-leaning audiences.

We need some balance. Also, the greatest opportunities were always on the left.

We should go to all the one issue outreach opportunities possible to present that issue as a lead issue, but we should not try to downplay the whole libertarian package. We must stand tall and support the entire Libertarian message.

I agree.

However, we should be rational, reasonable, respectful, sensible, adult, calm, cool, and have a sense of humor.

I try.

This issue involves everything from fuel/energy independence, to medicine, to prison/police state, and more. These are all huge issues.

We should be LIBERTARIAN! We should stick to our libertarian principles and sell them to everyone.

We should go to all the one issue outreach opportunities possible to present that issue as a lead issue, but we should not try to downplay the whole libertarian package. We must stand tall and support the entire Libertarian message.

However, we should be rational, reasonable, respectful, sensible, adult, calm, cool, and have a sense of humor.

Pot simply is not our biggest issue, but people love to bring it up whenever they find out I’m Libertarian.

What outreach has been done has largely been aimed at conservatives, and the low hanging fruit has been picked.

Also, conservatives are less temperamentally and demographically likely to change parties.

The vast majority of young people who voted, voted for Obama – 2-1 among under 30s and first time voters. McCain won among those over 65. Most people who change their party do so before age 30.

Obama dominated the Latino vote. Among citizens over 30, immigrants are the least likely to have a long-standing tie to a US political party.

The very word conservative means someone disinclined to change. That extends to their political party, even among those that are nearly pure libertarians.

Luckily for us, some of these issues where liberals and libertarians agree – war, (im)migration, gay rights, marijuana – are the very ones that bring tens and hundreds of thousands and even millions of people out to the streets.

The opportunity is huge. All we have to do is sell the libertarian message in liberal-friendly terms, and get out there. It would help if the party did not undercut that with the tone of the message it presents.

Agreed.

But, we have to get out in the world and find the already Libertarian 15% of the country and get them to join us in building a real Party. They will become our activists, supporters, donors, candidates, voters and leaders if we just get out in the world and recruit them.

It’s easier to find and recruit those who already agree with us than to convert hardcore Ds and Rs.

The majority of the public is not very committed to any ideology and we can get elected if we have enough money to advertise on TV where it counts.

I found too many Palin kool-aiders at this year’s, though.

And of course, they always have their share of Republican Party come hell or high water types, theocrats, and your run of the mill “fuck all politics – stock up on ammo” guys.

Get out to the Hemp rallies, gun shows, anti-tax, pro gold standard, anti-Federal Reserve, anti-war and anti-WAR rallies!

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/11/less-antman-on-restoring-the-libertarian-brand-name/

http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/taxes-of-evil-2-2/

Here are some others as well:

http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/state-of-the-empire-2/