The Libertarian Debate Club
The 2010 Libertarian National Convention has been a depressing disappointment. We had a chance to turn this debate club / issues organization / activist network / support group / educational think tank into a real political party, and we forecefully and quite rudely rejected it. Wayne Allyn Root brought some things to this party that no other candidate has - the experience, knowledge, networking infrastructure and passion needed to successfully market our brand. Yes, I said MARKET our BRAND.
You see I have this odd idea that elections are popularity contests. For some strange reason, I think that if you are going to have a political party, you should try to actually get elected. And to get elected, you need to have people skills, emotional intelligence, the ability to listen, compromise when necessary, and keep your mouth shut at least every once in a while. This convention proved to me beyond any doubt that this Libertarian Debate Club has none of that.
The detractors of Mr. Root were rude, beligerant, and childish. They heckled, they hurled insults, and disrupted his speeches like little children throwing a temper tantrum. He isn't pure enough. He is credentialed enough. He doesn't pass our litmus test. He's one of "them". He dared to NOT say something once. He dared to taylor his message to his audience. He actually wants to be RELAVENT. He wants to spend time adding members rather than polishing a platform that nobody but we understand or care about. In short, he wants to WIN ELECTIONS.
The LP purists, anarchists, and self-deluded superheroes of freedom proved they are still politically childish and naive, however, by their relentless campaign to purge Mr. Root for his lack of purity. What is he saying that is so against our principles? I asked that question throughout the convention to his detractors and came up with nothing.
We heard loud jeers and boos when he said he didn't want open borders until the welfare state was ended. Ooooohhhhh, that's just so anathema to our religion of liberty, isn't it? How dare he declare us a soverign nation that has a right not to bankrupt itself providing welfare to the world?
These people personally insulted Wayne, his family, his past, his friends, his convictions, and the cause of liberty itself. I am tired of being connected to a party of infantile, arrogant, rude, and out of touch activists who want nothing more but to argue with each other over the procedural rules governing whether the committees are allowed to change punctuation in the by-laws. And I'm certainly not interested in spending thousands of my dollars, days off, holidays, and evenings giving my life to a cause that does not want to be successful. It makes no sense to run a political party that wants to get people elected but doesn't give a damn what voters think.
Someone stop this juggernaut of unreason and let me off.
You see I have this odd idea that elections are popularity contests. For some strange reason, I think that if you are going to have a political party, you should try to actually get elected. And to get elected, you need to have people skills, emotional intelligence, the ability to listen, compromise when necessary, and keep your mouth shut at least every once in a while. This convention proved to me beyond any doubt that this Libertarian Debate Club has none of that.
The detractors of Mr. Root were rude, beligerant, and childish. They heckled, they hurled insults, and disrupted his speeches like little children throwing a temper tantrum. He isn't pure enough. He is credentialed enough. He doesn't pass our litmus test. He's one of "them". He dared to NOT say something once. He dared to taylor his message to his audience. He actually wants to be RELAVENT. He wants to spend time adding members rather than polishing a platform that nobody but we understand or care about. In short, he wants to WIN ELECTIONS.
The LP purists, anarchists, and self-deluded superheroes of freedom proved they are still politically childish and naive, however, by their relentless campaign to purge Mr. Root for his lack of purity. What is he saying that is so against our principles? I asked that question throughout the convention to his detractors and came up with nothing.
We heard loud jeers and boos when he said he didn't want open borders until the welfare state was ended. Ooooohhhhh, that's just so anathema to our religion of liberty, isn't it? How dare he declare us a soverign nation that has a right not to bankrupt itself providing welfare to the world?
These people personally insulted Wayne, his family, his past, his friends, his convictions, and the cause of liberty itself. I am tired of being connected to a party of infantile, arrogant, rude, and out of touch activists who want nothing more but to argue with each other over the procedural rules governing whether the committees are allowed to change punctuation in the by-laws. And I'm certainly not interested in spending thousands of my dollars, days off, holidays, and evenings giving my life to a cause that does not want to be successful. It makes no sense to run a political party that wants to get people elected but doesn't give a damn what voters think.
Someone stop this juggernaut of unreason and let me off.
posted by Jason E. Peck at 9:18 AM
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