Eric Dondero Rittberg wrote: > Excellent post. Well thought out, and well-reasoned. > Congratulations.
Thanks. I've given this topic quite a lot of thought. > I would respond that my preferred strategy is not in your list. > What I would preferably like to see for the overall libertarian > movement is the following (which by the way is the one strategy that > I actually think can work): > [snipped [Snipped: description of a scenario] That's not a strategy, it's a scenario, one over whose events the LP has almost no control. We can nominate a "celebrity" -- provided we can find one willing to run. Walter Williams won't, unless something has changed dramatically. (We could nominate someone who was unwilling to be our candidate, but the drawbacks should be obvious. Getting on the ballot in at least one state requires the candidate to indicate in writing that they are in fact a candidate.) Few of the people in that list of examples qualify as celebrities, by the commonly accepted interpretation of the word. Drew Carey. Dennis Miller. John Stossell. The others would get a "Who the hell is that?" response if they were to be featured in an American Express commercial, for instance, unless the commercial explained who they were. (And even that may not be enough.) Such a person is not a celebrity. The rest of the scenario is even more improbable and even more out of the LP's control. -Eric -- Eric S. Harris If this address ever fails, try visiting http://www.returnpath.net ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
