Comments on: Chris Bennett announces he will no longer seek the Libertarian Party’s nomination for Vice President

by: Andy

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:59:09 +0000

“Eric Dondero Says:

April 28th, 2008 at 6:26 am
This is turning out to be an utterly horrible year for our friend Thomas Knapp. Everthing he touches turns to the proverbial “shit.” He became Kubby’s campaign manager/communications director. Kubby is now an also-ran Prez candidate at best, at worst a hanger on just so he can have a little influence. at the convention.

Now, Knapp’s best budy Chris Bennett drops his race, after receiving little if any support.

Knapp has the anti-Midas touch.”

Your endorsements of Rudy Giuliani and Chris Peden didn’t exactly work out either.

by: Galileo

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:30:14 +0000

Chris gave an outsatnding speech at the Wisconsin Libertarian convention.

by: Libertarian Joseph

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:03:07 +0000

Chris Bennett? The musician?

by: Thomas L. Knapp

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:59:10 +0000

Mr. Dondero,

You’ve been corrected on the Karen Kwiatkowski LaRouche “mistake” enough times now—at least five, probably closer to ten by me alone—that your continued repetition of it can’t reasonably be construed as anything other than intentional falsehood.

Kwiatkowski was once interviewed by a LaRouche publication. If that makes her a LaRouchie, then the Reagan administration was a LaRouche administration, as several of his cabinet secretaries were also interviewed by that publication (Executive Intelligence Review).

by: swift kick in the nuts

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:46:13 +0000

Once again you talk tough over a computer…how pathetic…no wonder no one likes you.

what a bunch of cheese dicks! like your loser ass is not “talking through a computer” also! you are correct, damn pathetic.

by: Chris Bennett

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:49:19 +0000

I guess that was Jeff Wartman’s downfall for associating with scum like you, Eric. Get a life Eric and stop trolling TPW like a child molester. BTW, I called you a woman beater, I wouldn’t have thought any woman on this God-forsaken planet would marry a wretch like you. Since you believe in abortion, thank your mother she didn’t abort YOU! Once again you talk tough over a computer…how pathetic…no wonder no one likes you.

by: Eric Dondero

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:20:12 +0000

Bennett accuses me of being a “wife beater, drunk, NeoCon.”

“Wife beater”? Some proof Mr. Bennett? That’s quite an accusation you’re making there.

“Drunk”? Only if you consider drinking one or two beers on Weekend nights with an occasional Margarita or two at a Party to be the definition of a “drunk.” I recently shared some beers with Jeff Wartman of this very board, at Sam’s Boat when he was visiting Houston. Ask Wartman how many beers I had, and if I’m a “drunk.”

“NeoCon”? Really. That’s odd. Cause I’m very Pro-Choice, unlike real NeoCon Religious Rightists Howard Phillips and Ron Paul who are both Anti-Choice. The definition of “NeoCon” is a “big government Conservative.” What could be more “big government” than trying to regulate people’s sexual lives and reproductive health?

by: Eric Dondero

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:16:23 +0000

Blanton is a liar. Ms. Kwiatkowski IS MOST CERTAINLY AN EX-LYNDON LAROUCHIE. This is common knowledge. She wrote for the Larouchie publication a few years back called the “New Federalist” or something to that effect.

She backs away from her Larouchie connection these days. But that doesn’t change the fact that she used to have an affiliation with them.

by: Tom Blanton

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:48:46 +0000

Dondero is a liar. Kwiatkowski is NOT an ex-Lyndon Larouchie.

by: Keynote

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:12 +0000

Paulie

Richard Viguerie is now listed as the keynote speaker at the Convention website

http://denverlpcon.com/schedule.html

by: The Dylan

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:53:15 +0000

Well, Ed Clark had to put in a request to suspend the rules in 2000 to submit Don Gorman’s name. I saw that on C-SPAN. Gorman went up and withdrew his name when the time came, but had he not, he would likely have been on the ticket with his rival, Harry Browne. I think that the rules should encourage presidential candidates to compete for the VP slot, in the interest of producing the best possible ticket for the general election.

As I recall, Gorman set a precedent in 2000 by stating that it would be un-principled and akin to Republicrat artifice to “run over” the efforts of the declared VP candidates. I watched the whole thing and I’m pretty sure he just didn’t like Harry Browne (and the fact that Harry took a majority on the first ballot didn’t help).

Aren’t Libertarians supposed to stand for choice? There is nothing wrong with offering yourself as a candidate, so long as the delegation is free to reject you in favor of a better candidate. It’s called the free market.

by: ABW

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:22:23 +0000

If Barr does happen to actually announce that he is going to seek the nomination for president, they don’t still allow him to be the keynote speaker at the national convention, do they?

by: Paulie

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:58:24 +0000

Suppose the LP nominated a presidential candidate, then nominated a VP candidate whom the presidential nominee detested. The prez candidate says, “No way am I running with that one,” and resigns the nomination. Does the VP candidate become the prez nominee?

I don’t think this would happen, I’m just curious.

I think the LNC would then be charged with selecting a presidential candidate, unless a motion was made and passed at the convention before it closed.

by: Paulie

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:57:09 +0000

I was there and I remember it differently – I think Russo and Nolan were not interested in the VP nomination, which I think was nominated after P. I could be wrong.

by: Daniel N. Adams

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:45:27 +0000

My point was that if they hold nominations for both P and VP before voting, the nomination period for vp would then be closed, precluding a candidate for President from then becoming a VP candidate. You can’t run for both at the same time (I think this is right). The order of nomination and vote matters. If we want to allow those that don’t win the Presidential nomination to have the option of becoming a VP candidate, we must complete the Presidential nomination process before starting the VP process. If I’m not mistaken this happened in Atlanta keeping Russo and Nolan from being nominated for VP and having a chance to be on the ticket after loosing to Badnarik. My memory may be off here, but that is how I remember it (I was watching on C-Span and working, I remember there being a point of order on this but didn’t see the outcome). Those that were there probably should be able to verify this.