Stephen Gordon reports at Third Party Watch about the Greatest Hits draft working its way through PlatCom, and about Tom Knapp's World's Smallest Political Platform. In the comments, I correct some characterizations of the GH draft. Meanwhile, the Restore04 petition is up to about 50 names, but still only one voting member of the LNC or PlatCom or BylawsCom. An interesting addition to the list is Scott Olmsted, an old-school Rothbardian who surfaced in 2004 long enough to slap together a sometimes-live Rothbard Caucus website before again dropping from view. (The site said he was living in Encinitas, but he's AWOL from this century's archives of LPCA forums.) Rothbardian leaders in the LP tend to have a short membership half-life, as nearly all the leaders of the LP's original Rothbardian wing -- Rothbard, Evers, Garris, Raimondo, Franzi, Costello, Hunter, Weber, Rockwell, Blumert -- ended up abandoning the LP, many of them ending up in un-libertarian parties (usually the GOP) backing un-libertarian candidates (like Pat Buchanan). (Rothbard's lieutenants Evers and Franzi now even support the Iraq war -- doh!)
-- Posted By Brian Holtz to Libertarian Intelligence at 12/27/2007 08:09:00 PM
