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Very well put. Thank you for helping me share this
idea.
For life and liberty,
David Macko
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:36
AM
Subject: [badnarik2004] Re:
[badnarik2008] Re: No National Convention in 2008!
I didn't approve David Macko's original message because I thought we
should do away with the convention.
I do think however, some adjustment to the system is definitely in order.
Not going to get into the chances of us winning, but I do think we are
shooting ourselves in the foot when we wait till 6 months before the elections
to choose our candidate. Gary Nolan and Michael Badnarik and for the part he
was on the campaign trail Aaron Russo were forced to spend Summer of 2003
until Summer of 2004 carrying the water to the sea instead of to the desert by
having to go around campaigning to Libertarians instead of campaigning to the
public, months after the other parties had their candidates in place. If we
could move the nominations up 6 months to a year, it would give the candidates
time to lay foundations and I think it would have been good to have Michael
out there talking to the public and the media rather than running around
talking to state LP conventions.
Remember the big upheaval and panicky and rushed organizing that had to
go on after the unexpected nomination in 2004? Why couldn't we make the
decision spring/summer of 2007 giving our 2008 Presidential and VP candidates
an additional year to build, organize and campaign, and use the 2008 campaign
to rally and organize support for our candidates and try to get a little
press? Why shoot ourselves in the foot by waiting till the 4th quarter to
figure out the team to put in the game?
Steve
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David
- There are two very good reasons why this proposal doesn't work:
1)
In order to take advantage of it, we would have to attract someone
as a
candidate who wanted to campaign full time, first for the
nomination and
then for the election, beginning about 2-1/2 years
ahead of Nov 2008. As
it is only one out of our last set of candidates
was willing to devote
ALMOST that much of his life to such a purpose
(though admittedly Gary
Nolan jumped in not too long thereafter). I
really doubt that given both
the likelihood of election of a labeled
Libertarian, anywhere above a
state legislator seat in a small
district in a small state, and the level
of funding possible to even
pay the way for a road warrior like Michael
showed he was ... anyone
else will be quite that self-sacrificing and
congenial next time.
2) You said it yourself, we are not going to
gain media coverage, no
matter what we do. The game is fixed and the dice
are loaded. Why then
put any more effort and time into a sabre dive like
the Presidential
nomination is? Far better to worry less about that, than
about how
many laws we can change through local action and plebiscite
where
possible, and by continuing to elect and raise issues with
our
candidates at the local level...
--- In
[email protected], "David Macko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> The Libertarian Party should not have a National
Convention in 2008!
> Now that I have your attention, let me assure
everybody who is
reading this
> message that I am not a neocon
saboteur hellbent on destroying the
Libertarian Party.
> I
recommend that we hold our National Convention to nominate a
presidential
candidate
> for 2008 in 2007.
> This was our practice from 1976
until 1996. The arguments for the
change seemed plausible at the
>
time, including more publicity in an election year. Since then it
has
been proven conclusively
> that the establishment media is our enemy
and will not give us fair
coverage.
> The most blatant proof of
the media bias is the fact that if two
presidential candidates
had
> been arrested in Russia, Iraq or Iran it would have been front
page
news and covered by all
> the networks. Yet when Michael
Badnarik and Green Party candidate
David Cobb became the
> first
presidential candidates in American history to be arrested
while
campaigning, not to mention
> that they were handcuffed and jailed for
attempting to commit free
speech, even Libertarians
> without
access to the internet did not know about this atrocity
for
weeks.
> Nominating our candidates a year before the convention
would give
them more time to campaign
> with unified party support.
It would make petitioning easier in many
states with more time
and
> less expense for paid petitioners where necessary since there
is
less competition in odd-numbered years.
> Now is the time to
promote this return to our original practice
through all available media,
including LP News.
>
> For life and liberty,
> David
Macko
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