Comments on: Brief recap of the Libertarian National Convention http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/05/11/brief-recap-of-the-libertarian-national-convention/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 03:02:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jason Pye http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/05/11/brief-recap-of-the-libertarian-national-convention/#comment-84771 Jason Pye Fri, 11 May 2012 20:44:34 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10493#comment-84771 Yeah, there was unity in most respects. The VP slot was a chore to get through. Wrights is a good guy, but he has his role in the LP; however, Johnson was the better option. And I’d like to point out that I supported Wrights until Johnson got in the race.

I tried my best to explain the Chair fight. It’s kind of messed up how it all went down, but it has been brewing for some time. Rutherford preferred a political approach, but the “radical” faction of the party pinned him as part of a “cabal”(!) that was sneaky and sought nothing but power. The tactics I saw from the radicals, however, make them no better in my book.

]]> By: Stephen Littau http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/05/11/brief-recap-of-the-libertarian-national-convention/#comment-84769 Stephen Littau Fri, 11 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10493#comment-84769 Sounds like a very different convention from the 2008 convention when I was there with you; seems to me like there was much more unity with regard to the presidential nomination. Though I supported Gary Johnson from the beginning, had it gone the other way, I think I would have been OK with Lee Wrights as the nominee. The debate never got nasty between the two of them.

But what was the deal with picking the next Chairman? Was there any major difference in the direction one would take the party vs. the other? I’m not as plugged in as you with the goings on in the LP but from the outside looking in, I just don’t get the controversy.

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