Comments on: Root wins Heartland straw poll http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:32:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: yesclean http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-726431 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:28:11 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-726431 go night girl are house red go night girl are house red

]]> by: Shane Savoie http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558836 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:38:06 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558836 Early on, I favored Root, but since Barr, Ruwart, and Gravel have thrown their hats in, that has faded a bunch. Although I admire Wayne in a number of regards, he isn't as big time as the others. I'm pulling for a Barr/Ruwart ticket, showing all the best the LP has to offer via effective communicators. Bob's seriousness will appeal to disenfranchised conservatives while Mary has the soft feminine edge that's all too often missing from the LP's message. I just hope the antiwar vote isn't too split to register. Nader will go where his ego directs him, even if it hurts the causes he allegedly champions. McKinney is much more sincere, but is still just another way for the voice of peace to get diffused. Early on, I favored Root, but since Barr, Ruwart, and Gravel have thrown their hats in, that has faded a bunch. Although I admire Wayne in a number of regards, he isn’t as big time as the others.

I’m pulling for a Barr/Ruwart ticket, showing all the best the LP has to offer via effective communicators. Bob’s seriousness will appeal to disenfranchised conservatives while Mary has the soft feminine edge that’s all too often missing from the LP’s message.
I just hope the antiwar vote isn’t too split to register. Nader will go where his ego directs him, even if it hurts the causes he allegedly champions. McKinney is much more sincere, but is still just another way for the voice of peace to get diffused.

]]> by: Haigh http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558778 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:39:48 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558778 Anybody know of a video link for this debate? Getting this kind of stuff up on video could one day help the LP campaign go viral. Consider how well the grassroots leveraged Ron Paul's debate videos. What if the LP candidates got together and had some 1x1 debates, orchestrated to both educate about issues and show their styles and differences. Maybe we need to apply some bracketology....to generate publicity and interest for a whole series of LP oriented debates, maybe by topic, foreign policy, monetary reform, education reform, government waste, social security, etc. Anybody know of a video link for this debate?

Getting this kind of stuff up on video could one day help the LP campaign go viral.

Consider how well the grassroots leveraged Ron Paul’s debate videos.

What if the LP candidates got together and had some 1×1 debates, orchestrated to both educate about issues and show their styles and differences. Maybe we need to apply some bracketology….to generate publicity and interest for a whole series of LP oriented debates, maybe by topic, foreign policy, monetary reform, education reform, government waste, social security, etc.

]]> by: Dave Williams http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558535 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:50:55 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558535 WAR=COOL! WAR=COOL!

]]> by: Steven R Linnabary http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558407 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:10:32 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558407 Jerry S.: See http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/06/bob-barr-send-them-a-message/#comment-557285 for the OH straw poll results. Jerry S.:

See
http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/06/bob-barr-send-them-a-message/#comment-557285
for the OH straw poll results.

]]> by: Yuriy http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558270 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:48:40 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558270 The few times I have seen Root speak he sounds very fake. He looks like he has practiced his smile in the mirror millions of times. Does he have any real ideas besides the typical libertarian slogans that he is using to get everyone riled up? Does he have any real political experience? perhaps that is a good thing. And Barr;s claim to fame is the failed impeachment of Clinton. Is this supposed to inspire me? Of course I am heavily biased because I like Gravel, someone who gives his opinion even if he knows that some people wont like it. Someone who filibustered in the senate for 5 months to end the draft, without much support from even his own party. Someone who revealed government secrecy and lies (pentagon papers) when nobody else had the balls to do so. Gravel inspires me, I like seeing his honesty, even though I think he does get a little crazy sometimes. I think he is someone that can actually do stuff, anyway he is the only one of the candidates that has actually accomplished anything in politics. The few times I have seen Root speak he sounds very fake. He looks like he has practiced his smile in the mirror millions of times. Does he have any real ideas besides the typical libertarian slogans that he is using to get everyone riled up? Does he have any real political experience? perhaps that is a good thing. And Barr;s claim to fame is the failed impeachment of Clinton. Is this supposed to inspire me? Of course I am heavily biased because I like Gravel, someone who gives his opinion even if he knows that some people wont like it. Someone who filibustered in the senate for 5 months to end the draft, without much support from even his own party. Someone who revealed government secrecy and lies (pentagon papers) when nobody else had the balls to do so. Gravel inspires me, I like seeing his honesty, even though I think he does get a little crazy sometimes. I think he is someone that can actually do stuff, anyway he is the only one of the candidates that has actually accomplished anything in politics.

]]> by: Guy Fawkes http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558025 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:37:55 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558025 Root has no chance. Barr will bring the Libertarian party forward. Not that Root isn't a good guy, and a great Libertarian, but the Libs would be silly to not nominate someone with real legislative experience. Plus, Root seems a little too strident, nowhere near as angry as Christine Smith, but very over the top. Phillies makes excellent points when he discuss how badly screwed the young people are getting, I felt vindicated when he mentioned that. Barr will lead us forward, while I feel Root would just spin our wheels. Root has no chance. Barr will bring the Libertarian party forward. Not that Root isn’t a good guy, and a great Libertarian, but the Libs would be silly to not nominate someone with real legislative experience. Plus, Root seems a little too strident, nowhere near as angry as Christine Smith, but very over the top. Phillies makes excellent points when he discuss how badly screwed the young people are getting, I felt vindicated when he mentioned that. Barr will lead us forward, while I feel Root would just spin our wheels.

]]> by: Jerry S. http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558023 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:34:26 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558023 Anyone have the results from the major Ohio vote from the following day ? Anyone have the results from the major Ohio vote from the following day ?

]]> by: John Schultz http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558021 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:32:02 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558021 Mike Ferguson, while a heck of a guy and someone I consider a friend, is not the MO LP Chairman. That would be Glenn Nielsen. Congressman Barr also did not announce his exploratory committee "immediately following the Libertarian Presidential debate." The debate was held from 10:00 AM until 11:45 AM according to the printed schedule I am reviewing. At the end of the debate, the ballots were distributed. Congressman Barr's keynote was at 2:50 PM. The straw poll was still open for some time after his address, but I do not have the exact details. Mike Ferguson, while a heck of a guy and someone I consider a friend, is not the MO LP Chairman. That would be Glenn Nielsen.

Congressman Barr also did not announce his exploratory committee “immediately following the Libertarian Presidential debate.” The debate was held from 10:00 AM until 11:45 AM according to the printed schedule I am reviewing. At the end of the debate, the ballots were distributed. Congressman Barr’s keynote was at 2:50 PM. The straw poll was still open for some time after his address, but I do not have the exact details.

]]> by: Tom Jeffers http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558018 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:31:31 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558018 We have a great slate of candidates. I am torn b/t Root and Barr right now, leaning to Root. See you at Convention. We have a great slate of candidates. I am torn b/t Root and Barr right now, leaning to Root. See you at Convention.

]]> by: Mike Gillis http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558008 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:16:41 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/04/07/root-wins-heartland-straw-poll/#comment-558008 As has been mentioned before, he BARELY edged out Barr by only two votes, and then after a debate and BEFORE Barr made his announcement. Had Barr announced sooner, it's likely that he would have won. As has been mentioned before, he BARELY edged out Barr by only two votes, and then after a debate and BEFORE Barr made his announcement.

Had Barr announced sooner, it’s likely that he would have won.

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