Libertarians, please consider this~
As a member of the Libertarian Party,
and an officer of my local county LP,
I have agreed to support LP Candidates.
IT IS OUR STATED GOAL.

We have worked hard to invite and cultivate
good libertarians to run for office,
and now, officers of our own party
are turning their backs, and their wallets,
on them to support a Republican, that IMO
is not the best libertarian candidate running.

IT IS SHAMEFUL that Shane Corey, and others,
on the LNC have decided to betray the LP,
and our Candidates, by financially supporting Paul, while ignoring our own.

The Libertarian Party is in crisis!
Our leadership has no vision,
and without vision, the people perish.

After speaking with each of our Candidates at least once, as recently as last week, I have discovered that they are having difficulty reaching libertarians with their message.

Their campaigns have been overshadowed by the Ron Paul campaign, which has been getting some coverage as a libertarian-Republican Candidate.

Libertarians are confused and excited by Paul and his message because of the national spotlight on issues relating to Liberty and Individual Rights. Great.

The problem is, he is not the best libertarian Candidate, as he does not support your Body-Ownership-Rights.

Steve & Christine & George do.

The issue at hand is that many registered Libertarians are giving money to Paul, while our Candidates are struggling to keep their campaigns alive.

NOTA? What an insult!
We ask them to run and then we disrespect them when they do? What kind of assholes are we?

They support our Body-Ownership-Rights,
and we need to support them!

My thinking is this;
Ron Paul has no real chance to win, so,
if we are going to spend our time and money supporting a “longshot” candidate, then we should do so to promote real libertarians that support real choice.

How can we be free if we cannot own and control our own bodies?

SUPPORT THE CANDIDATES THAT SUPPORT YOU!

Thank you for your time and consideration.
PLEASE DONATE TO THEIR CAMPAIGNS TODAY!

~Ron Boozell aka stoneman76
founder and host of Liberty Bandwagon
also LP of Oregon Board Member
and LPDC Secretary

Over 1000 libertarian members:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LibertyBandwagon/
including all 3 LP Presidential Candidates:
Steve Kubby, Christine Smith, & George Phillies!

The fact is you cannot answer it w/o sounding bad. If you say “yes he should be excluded from future debates for being anti-war” you sound like a fascist and if you say “no” you sound like a hypocrite.

Note: Thompson is “down” to 14% and he’s not officially in the race yet. Reason dictates that percentage would increase if/when he jumps in as people would see he’s serious.

Of course you’re hoping he doesn’t jump in because he’d pull votes from Giuliani.

And your thoughts on the link I sent you? Conveniently none.

There’s an article this morning over at RealClearPolitics.com asserting that Fred Thompson has missed his chance; that it’s already too late for him to jump in. I believe the author is correct. The very latest polls had Thompson down at only 14%.

He also raised only $3.4 million in the last 2 months, not the $5 million he was hoping for.

He better jump in this week, or don’t even bother.

Now, I ask you, if this nomination is too late for Fred Thompson, do you think Chuck Hagel would have any chance whatsoever?

That’s what we are witnessing here with Ron Paul supporters, and perhaps even Ron Paul himself, if we can ever get our hands on the evidence of him actually saying that he would not support the eventual GOP Nominee. (BTW, I’m very, very anxious to get that quote, anyone??)

We have Paul supporters saying essentially, that everyone should support Paul, that he should be included in all the GOP debates, but that if he fails to win the nomination they won’t support the GOP nominee at all.

Like I said, classic, “You scratch my back and keep on scratchin’.”

Should loyalty to the oath come before loyalty to the party?

I say it should.

With that in mind I don’t think I’d say he’s in the wrong party. After all, all the other candidates take an oath to uphold the constitution too. The fact they refuse to should make them the black sheep, not RP.

About RP stating he wouldn’t support Giuliani,...this isn’t a big secret, I’m reasonably certain I heard him say that to Alan Colmes after the debate on Fox news. If not it was a TV interview sometime within a week or two after that debate.

In regards to the ‘96 primary, I know I’ve heard this story elsewhere on more than one occassion and I seem to recall Art Olivier discussing the situation during a radio interview years ago. Anyhow after a little bit of searching I found this story which is what I’m referring to:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2519/is_n6_v17/ai_18535311/pg_2

And specifically paragraphs two and three.

Now, that said, as soon as the run-off was over, the GOP en masse quickly backed Paul with everything they had.

First to jump on board was Kay Baily Hutchison. As soon as she called Ron to congratulate him, and offer to campaign for him, it was like a flood gate. All of a sudden EVERY TOP TEXAS REPUBLICAN was calling Ron and offering assistance, most notably Tom DeLay, Dick Armey, and George W. Bush.

DeLay even held 3 big fundraisers in the District for Ron. Kay came down and spent a whole day on a “Cessna Tour” of the District with Ron.

Bush (though Karl Rove) put the word out to the entire Texas GOP, particularly big money donors in Houston, to support Ron Paul!

I dare say, without their help, and money, Ron Paul would have never been elected to Congress in 1996.

Keep in mind that in the General against Lefty Morris we only won 51% to 47.5%. It was much closer than the victories over Laughlin in the primaries. The Democrats were much tougher and meaner on Ron Paul than the Republicans ever were. Wasn’t even close.

Sally Pipes, longtime Director of the libertarian Pacific Research Institute, has just been appointed as a Top Advisor to the Rudy Giuliani for President Campaign on Health Care Reform.