Libertarians require a campaign team that has a very deep understanding of populist grassroots politics. That certainly wasn’t the Barr Campaign. LP campaigns are easy to infiltrate. Even so, I am amazed that Verney was allowed to infiltrate the campaign, since he is not a libertarian, and probably can’t spell it without Coontrol-C and Control-V. …I also never saw Shane Cory without getting the impression he was completely cunted or hopped up on some kind of stimulant.

Possibly he’s on prescriptions, my guess would be something for “ADD”. I have no idea whether or not he’s helped or made worse by whatever he’s on. I don’t see how his decision-making could have been made while sober. I almost feel sorry for him, since he was simply a douche who was promoted beyond his level of competence.

I say almost, because some of my good friends had to deal with him while he was occupying the role of speed bump at the National LP office.

Onward and upward! Hiyo silver, …Away!

Nothing that an LP presidential candidate can do will change public policy towards less government. Assuming that is the intention of the LP then the LP must come up with a different strategy. However, the current composition of the LP will not let it settle on a single strategy. I thing the current count is 20 concurrent strategies.

The most important lesson I observed is that almost no one is at home, and when they are, they want to wait until the convention to decide who they support.

there was no one at the Ruwart table several times as I passed by.

You must be talking about Sunday, right? The Ruwart booth was always staffed on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I know because I was the one almost always staffing it.

True, most campaigns just did not have the wo/manpower to staff their booths full time.

In 2012 I will be more visible, more assertive, will arrive earlier and leave later. Much to the consternation of all I am sure.

I look forward to it.

In 2012 I will be more visible, more assertive, will arrive earlier and leave later. Much to the consternation of all I am sure.

Root made calls. I was at Carol McMahon’s house when she got one. I think Phillies tried to do the same, but I think he had some youngsters look up phone numbers, and I have been given to understand that there were a lot of mistakes on their list.

I was busy traveling around the country getting signatures, and only had internet access some of the time. I didn’t look up delegate phone numbers for Kubby, and neither did anyone else. We didn’t have a lot of campaign help. Certainly, many things could have been done, but no one was available to do them.

The candidates who could afford to had hospitality suites and/or information booths, so you could learn about them.

We couldn’t afford either one, but we did have a campaign supporter donate some money to make a bunch of buttons and choroplast Kubby signs, and I put some up (the hotel would take them down when they would see them, though) and gave some out as I was able.

The candidates were milling around; if you had questions for any of them, you could have approached them. If you expected them all to approach you – there were hundreds of people there, and they may have simply not got to you. I know they were trying. There were several informal debates – three or four I knew of – and they had question and answer periods.

It just seemed to me that not only was there no apparent “stop Barr” movement, there didn’t seem to be much of a movement in favor of anybody except Mr Barr.

I agree that the other candidates were not as well organized, and neither were the anti-Barr folks – but they were around. I know at least one delegate who showed up specifically to stop Barr and made up and gave out anti-Barr buttons.

The delegate list was available. There were no phone numbers or email addresses on it.

Perhaps I am confessing my ignorance of the process or “how things get done at LP conventions”… but given the relatively small number of delegates “needed to win” it would have been a nice touch to receive a phone call from a candidate — or a supporter of a candidate even — saying “looking forward to meeting you in Denver/we’re having an informational meeting/why don’t you come meet candidate ___”

At least that’s what I would have done.

Instead I was left to fend for myself. Not that I’m not a big boy, I can fend for myself. It just seemed to me that not only was there no apparent “stop Barr” movement, there didn’t seem to be much of a movement in favor of anybody except Mr Barr.

Of course I leave open the possibility that I, as a new delegate, was not tuned in to the “way things happen”.

kicking illegals out
protectionism
“doing something” about GW

hardly a libertarian!