Third Party Watch

Tomorrow morning, a debate among LP candidates will take place at the NH Liberty Forum. I’ll be liveblogging it, and video will likely be online later in the week. Please use this thread to suggest questions you’d like to see asked, and I’ll pass them onto the event moderators for possible inclusion.

Participants will [...]

According to Rasmussen, Ron Paul is currently in third place in New Hampshire, beating Huckabee, Giuliani and Thompson:

Ron Paul earns 14% of the vote and Mike Huckabee gets 11% as the only other candidates in double digits. Rudy Giuliani attracts 8% of the vote, Fred Thompson 5%, some other candidate 2%, and 3% are not [...]

I just received a call informing me that former congressman and Libertarian National Committee member Bob Barr will be on CNN (The Situation Room) around 5:20PM EST today. Barr will be discussing the exclusion of Ron Paul from the Fox News debates. Hopefully, we’ll be able to find a YouTube and post it [...]

I normally don’t normally cut-and-paste press releases on this site, but in this case, I’m making an exception to that rule.

St. Louis, MO— Rock-The-Debates has posted video clips of 10 presidential candidates on its website, including one from Iowa Caucus winner Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee agreed to open debates when responding to the question of whether he [...]

Recent statement made by Cynthia McKinney:

“We have a President who has misgoverned and a Congress that has refused to hold him accountable. It is a grave situation, and I believe the stakes for our country are high. President George W. Bush has failed to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States; he [...]

Chris Brunner, a personal friend who posts at LewRockwell.com, contacted me to get some Ron Paul campaign contact information a few minutes ago. It looks like he’s been on the ball since then:
From the official campaign website:
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – According to the New Hampshire State Republican Party and an Associated Press report, Republican presidential [...]

Science Debate 2008 is an organization calling for “a public debate in which the U.S. presidential candidates share their views on the issues of The Environment, Health and Medicine, and Science and Technology Policy.” From their site:

As you watched the scores of U.S. Presidential debates, did you ever wonder why there has been no [...]

“I believe in free and open debate, so I will certainly consider it… ,” said Hillary Clinton on June 12, 2007 when asked if she would be willing to face independent and third party candidates in televised debates.

Now take a look at this clip where John Edwards and Hillary Clinton think the microphone has [...]

I work for the state’s largest yard sign printer, Michael Franks. He’s a Ron Paul Republican (he’s actually printing more 4×8s, 2×4s, etc. than any other print shop) and he personally put up the “Republicans For Smither” 4×8 yard signs last year in the chaotic CD-22* race south of Houston. Democrat Nick Lampson later won [...]

There is kind of an interesting question buried in here. Are most libertarian activists college-educated “elistists” with little tolerance for blue collar workers? I personally haven’t had much interaction at party functions or events… but I would say 95% of the Libertarians I’ve ever run into have been well educated and tend to [...]

Murray Sabrin, the Libertarian nominee for New Jersey Governor in 1997, has written the following piece for Lew Rockwell which calls on Ron Paul to take public matching funds for his Presidential campaign. This has been an ongoing debate as Paul’s fundraising increased sharply during the last couple of weeks.

Sabrin’s showing of 5% in [...]

From a practical political standpoint I think he ought to “play by the rules” as they’re set now and just take the money. It could mean millions of dollars for television commercials and nationwide travel. Combined with his ability to raise very large amounts online, Congressman Paul could probably go toe-to-toe with some [...]

Here’s a press release, as written, from RockTheDebates.org.

Website Videos “Tell All” From Straight to Squirmy

St. Louis, MO—Rock-The-Debates has posted video clips of nine presidential candidates on its website (www.rockthedebates.org) responding to the question of whether they would be willing to debate third party and independent candidates in the 2008 general election.

Answers from Hillary Clinton, Rudy [...]

It looks like LNC Chair Bill Redpath and RNC Co-Chairman Jo Ann Davidson are going to be engaged in some sort of panel debate at the 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference.

The 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference announced today that Jo Ann Davidson, Co-Chairman of the Republican National Committee, will be a speaker at the Reno event in [...]

Kent Mesplay, Gail Parker, and Joe Schriner faced off in the first ever online Green Party presidential debate sponsored by Laptop America and My God Given Rights. The debate was two hours long and commercial free. You can listen here.

Mr. Thompson, the Constitution Party candidate, repeatedly spoke against big government controlling people’s money. He got some criticism from the audience and from the other moderator, Faye Morrison, a community activist and former Ayer selectwoman, for his stance on Social Security.

Mr. Thompson suggested doing away with the system and allowing people to invest their own [...]

Hey Everyone, Daniel Myers here, just writing to inform you that there is a place where you can go and express your comments, read information and vote on the polls for your pick of the winner in the First Ever Online Presidential Debates. Visit http://www.presidentialdebates2008.blogspot.com now and cast your vote. Also Thank You to the [...]

Independent presidential candidates John Bootie, John Bowles, and Orion Daley will debate each other Tuesday, July 31st from 7-9 PM Eastern Time on the Daniel Myers Live Radio Program.

Kevin Thompson has updated his campaign blog to include video of the Nonprofit Alliance debate he participated in and an interview with Constitution Party chairman Jim Clymer:
http://www.thompson07.com/news/

One June 30th Ben Miller hosted a multi-party presidential debate with Jon Greenspon (New American Independent), Don Grundmann (Constitution), Christine Smith (Libertarian) and Richard Smith (Republican). I haven’t listened to the entire program yet, but the topics featured during what I’ve listened to thus far include Iraq, the “war on terror,” Osama bin Laden, [...]

I’m listening to the Third Party Debate right now and two things come to mind: (a) George Phillies is the stereotypical Star Trek-attending, computer nerd libertarian; he sounds so nerdy. Outright nerdy. (b) Wayne Allyn Root owned that debate.

Even the host—what is he, 12?—said in his follow-up show today that WAR won the debate. “The [...]

As you may have noticed, one of our sponsors is holding an online debate tonight. Scheduled to participate are: Wayne Allyn Root, Steve Kubby, George Phillies, Alan Augustson, and Kat Swift.

Check it out here at 7pm Eastern time.

Daniel Imperato, Bob Jackson, Robert Milnes, George Phillies, Wayne Allyn Root and Christine Smith each explain why they should be President of the United States. Listen at The Conservative Show.

From the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas Yahoo! group comes this item:

There is a lot of concern expressed by the more politically realistic supporters of Ron Paul on MySpace that the 9/11 Truth Conspirators are political cannon fodder for the enemies of Ron Paul. Being branded a wacko is the kiss of death politically. [...]

This next Presidential election looks like it will contain a set of very active major party primaries. Among the dozens of candidates in the mix, it appears that Congressman Ron Paul and Congressman Tom Tancredo will both seek the GOP nod. Paul being a favorite of Libertarians and Tancredo a hero to many [...]