Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The Libertarian Republican Heritage by Justin Raimondo - Part II

The Libertarian Republican Heritage (Part II) by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com:

March 6, 2013 - "In the summer of 1983, there was a major split in the Libertarian Party.... The split took out a good portion of the Party’s leading activists, and most of the money: although at the time the internal conflict looked to be over organizational and even personal issues, the split went much deeper than that – but it took time for the differences to play out....

"In the wake of what was a debilitating split, two problems with the LP appeared insuperable: 1) it was clear to me, and a few others, that the LP had peaked. After a few years of seemingly unstoppable growth ... we saw no opportunities for further growth, which led to the second big problem with the LP: ballot access laws. More than half the Party’s resources were spent just getting on the ballot: after that, there wasn’t much left to put into actually campaigning.

"It was time, a few of us decided, to enter the Republican party – not as any kind of capitulation to conservatism, or Reaganism, but as an organized group with an ideological agenda. And so, in the summer of 1986, the Libertarian Republican Organizing Committee was born."

Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/03/05/the-libertarian-republican-heritage-part-ii/
Part I: http://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-libertarian-republican-heritage-by.html
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