Congratulations To One Of Us....

[Aratus]

Yes, now is good

Texans have true grit.

[Swordsmyth]

There are times when DJT can be an abomination as unto the Good Lord
or even a bloody blithering jAcka$$$ when making a POTUS level decision.
I wish Jill Stein or Gary Johnson had been handed the monies Putin gave
to Donald John Trump. I really do. Trump got tons of rubles galore indeedy.

Did you see it in your crystal ball?

[timosman]

Likewise I am concerned about YOUR deteriorating mental state. oddly enough...

Complete lack of creativity. Just like Zippy.

[Aratus]

The best way to ensure peace is to be ready for war, DJTvsg understands that, war was not in the cards.

This was Trump's version of Herman Kahn's Mutual Assured Destruction theory? Just curious...

[timosman]

This was Trump's version of Herman Kahn's Mutual Assured Destruction theory? Just curious...

[Aratus]

If carried to extremes by both sides... We actually nuke each other....
You have to hold back and play the hand out like a poker hand. This
is what happily looking at the movie DOCTOR STRANGELOVE does
if you have also cautiously read up on John Nash's GAME THEORY ideas.

[timosman]

If carried to extremes by both sides... We actually nuke each other....
You have to hold back and play the hand out like a poker hand. This
is what happily looking at the movie DOCTOR STRANGELOVE does
if you have also cautiously read up on John Nash's GAME THEORY ideas.

Why are we even talking about it?

[Swordsmyth]

This was Trump's version of Herman Kahn's Mutual Assured Destruction theory? Just curious...

Sort of, you can also think of it like this:

[Aratus]

Why are we even talking about it?

I am 100% inside a very HUNTER S THOMPSON mood.
Harlan Ellison just passed away. Now I really feel old...

[oyarde]

Congratulations Alex ! I think . Now that you are an official Libertarian you do not have to clean your room . Do not listen to the statists .

[oyarde]

I am giving Alex five stars .

[oyarde]

Nice suit too Alex .

[timosman]

Texans have true grit.

Trolls like us.

[angelatc]

+rep voting is the key to changing everything

Delegates have super powers.

[TheTexan]

Delegates have super powers.

Yes they do. They train in their conclaves high in their congresses, practicing and honing their powers.

With the dream of someday becoming: a super delegate

[Brian4Liberty]

Congrats to Alex! Good luck.

[Brian4Liberty]

Libertarian Party Rebuffs Mises Uprising
Incumbent National Chair Nick Sarwark, after picking a fight with Tom Woods, routs a Mises-backed challenger at the party’s national convention. Controversial vice chair Arvin Vohra also booted out of office.
Matt Welch|Jul. 4, 2018

The Libertarian Party on Monday afternoon re-elected in a surprising first-ballot landslide incumbent Chair Nicholas Sarwark to an unprecedented third consecutive two-year term. In doing so, the nation's third-largest political party swatted down what was supposed to be the most contentious challenge at its biannual national convention—to a leadership that was considered by various critics to be too operationally incremental, too ideologically tepid, and too (in the words of Ludwig von Mises Institute Senior Fellow and popular podcaster Tom Woods at a nearby New Orleans rally Saturday) "SJW-friendly."

Instead, Sarwark's main opponent, the Mises Caucus-endorsed Joshua Smith, stumbled badly in a defensive debate performance at the New Orleans Hyatt Regency Sunday night, and ended up Monday on the business end of a 65 percent-22 percent rout. In the vice chair race, two-term incumbent Arvin Vohra, who has become a lightning rod over the past year-plus for intentionally provocative public comments such as "Bad Idea: School Shootings. Good Idea: School Board Shootings," was resoundingly drummed out of office, never receiving more than 11 percent of the vote in three rounds of balloting that ended Tuesday with a positivity-exuding 33-year-old finance/tech/consulting guy named Alex Merced squeaking past the 50 percent finish line.

"What I think the race shows is that if you want to change the direction of the Libertarian Party, if you have new ideas about how we can grow and reach new members, the election of Merced to vice chair shows that the delegates want that kind of change," Sarwark told me Tuesday afternoon. "If your campaign is seen, or has themes of trying to kick people out, of trying to attack people like Gov. Weld, or... basically anyone—if your campaign was seen as trying to drive people out of the party, the delegates soundly rejected that. And I think that that is the biggest takeaway from the convention."

Weld, the controversial-within-the-party 2016 vice presidential nominee and former moderate Republican Massachusetts governor who is laying the groundwork for a possible 2020 presidential run (and was everywhere to be seen at the convention, amiably taking on all skeptical comers), played a pivotal role in the decisive debate. Candidates had the opportunity to ask their opponents one question, and when it was Smith's turn, a delegate in the audience shouted out, "What do you think about Bill Weld?!" (Weld-heckling was a sporadic feature throughout the three-day event.) Smith decided to make that his question.

"What I think about Bill Weld," Sarwark started slowly, building into a feisty crescendo, "is that he is still in the Libertarian Party, while many of his opponents are not. [He's been] raising money for and endorsing Libertarian candidates. He is fundraising for us. And the exposure of Bill Weld to the Libertarian Party has not made the Libertarian Party more like an establishment Republican, but has made Bill Weld a lot more like a Libertarian....He knows something about winning public office, and [we need to] learn how to do that from anybody who will help us, anybody who will join us. And we should not PUSH PEOPLE OUT who are willing to help!"
...
The contest between Sarwark, a careful and smooth-talking 38-year-old lawyer/car dealer who is also running for mayor of Phoenix, and the 35-year-old Navy veteran Smith was so nasty and upsetting for some delegates that vendors were hawking "I survived the Libertarian National Chair campaign 2018" T-shirts. But to the extent that it was a proxy war between the party's new influx of elbow-throwing Tom Woods listeners and its older cohort of more patient coalition-builders, the pragmatists won in a rout.

...
Woods, not previously noted for his party-related activities, organized* (see correction below) the day before the convention a raucous Take Human Action Bash a few blocks away, featuring a lively mix of speakers such as anti-war author Scott Horton and a piped-in Ron Paul. Unusually for both Woods and Paul, their speeches each made first-person plural references to capital-L Libertarians, and were basically pleas to make the party more like, well, Ron Paul.

"Most people change or adopt ideologies, not because they're gently led by some stuffed shirt, but because they're jolted by an articulate true believer," said Woods, who spent a good deal of time eviscerating the philosophical and policy errors of Bill Weld, to an audience that occasionally broke out in "Tom Woods for president!" chants. "I mean, is the idea that we should be trying to trick people into voting Libertarian?"

Paul, too, urged the 200 or so people in the room—who he called "the libertarian wing of the Libertarian Party"—to focus on the basics of property rights, volunteerism, and being anti-war and anti-Federal Reserve. "Congratulations for being in the Mises Caucus, keep up the good work, and keep everybody honest," he concluded.
...
Meanwhile, at the convention over the subsequent days, the party adopted new platform language defending sex workers, and removed old platform language that had supporting "control over the entry into our country of foreign nationals who pose a credible threat to security, health or property" (a change that Sarwark in particular finds significant in the current political climate). The party retained its usual support for "free market banking" and condemnation of the "use of force."
...
* Tom Woods tweets that he did not organize the event, but that the Mises Caucus organized. My apologies to both parties.
...
More: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/04/l...mises-uprising

[Swordsmyth]

Libertarian Party Rebuffs Mises Uprising
Incumbent National Chair Nick Sarwark, after picking a fight with Tom Woods, routs a Mises-backed challenger at the party’s national convention. Controversial vice chair Arvin Vohra also booted out of office.
Matt Welch|Jul. 4, 2018

The LP is doomed.

Alex Merced can't save it, there are too many lunatics of too many different stripes infesting it and the controlled opposition is in firm control with Weld becoming the face of the party.

[Pauls' Revere]

CONGRATS!!! ALEX! MAKE IT HAPPEN.

[euphemia]

Save the Libertarian Party, be strong on immigration.

Rebrand and rename the Libertarian Party. Gary Johnson was never a Libertarian.

[specsaregood]

Libertarian Party Rebuffs Mises Uprising
Incumbent National Chair Nick Sarwark, after picking a fight with Tom Woods, routs a Mises-backed challenger at the party’s national convention. Controversial vice chair Arvin Vohra also booted out of office.
Matt Welch|Jul. 4, 2018

Did that accidental racist tweet get posted in the midst of this "uprising"?

edit: it looks like that tweet went out just a few hours before the voting for this chairmanship began. Coincidence or inside-job to ensure the mises backed challenger lost?

[Aratus]

Rebrand and rename the Libertarian Party. Gary Johnson was never a Libertarian.

He did smoke his fair share of a most unique "weed" in his day...

Seriously though, BILL WELD is trying to remake the LP in his image,

his carrot-top Baystate WASP bordering on 100% BAWSTUN Brahman

image? Were y'all hurting jibes at me becuz y'all thought I wuz into

gettin the Mitt Romney groove back on, too & likewise? Just askin!

[angelatc]

Did that accidental racist tweet get posted in the midst of this "uprising"?

edit: it looks like that tweet went out just a few hours before the voting for this chairmanship began. Coincidence or inside-job to ensure the mises backed challenger lost?

No, Tom Woods was already less than popular with the left-leaners.

The contest between Sarwark, a careful and smooth-talking 38-year-old lawyer/car dealer who is also running for mayor of Phoenix, and the 35-year-old Navy veteran Smith was so nasty and upsetting for some delegates that vendors were hawking "I survived the Libertarian National Chair campaign 2018" T-shirts

Those people are dramatarians who thrive on angst and chaos.

[Brian4Liberty]

Did that accidental racist tweet get posted in the midst of this "uprising"?

edit: it looks like that tweet went out just a few hours before the voting for this chairmanship began. Coincidence or inside-job to ensure the mises backed challenger lost?

You never know. Woods supposedly claims the staffer is a good guy, per Collins.

On the other hand, there have been moles in the past. Read as sinister music: "Dum, de, dum, dum, Dondero..."

[Voluntarist]

xxxxx

[Voluntarist]

xxxxx

[Feeding the Abscess]

Libertarian Party Rebuffs Mises Uprising
Incumbent National Chair Nick Sarwark, after picking a fight with Tom Woods, routs a Mises-backed challenger at the party’s national convention. Controversial vice chair Arvin Vohra also booted out of office.
Matt Welch|Jul. 4, 2018

Media doesn't present what Ron actually says - voluntarism - and instead inserts a similar sounding, but different meaning, word. Typical.

[eleganz]

Is it me or has the message of liberty as well as realistic progress gone lightyears farther using the GOP as a vehicle instead of LP?

[Swordsmyth]

Is it me or has the message of liberty as well as realistic progress gone lightyears farther using the GOP as a vehicle instead of LP?

It has, unfortunately that still has been very little, but very little is better than backwards, the LP drives people away from small government, in my opinion it does that on purpose.