Wayne Root defects from LP to GOP - Charlotte Libertarian | Examiner.com - Matthew Reece:
Sep. 7, 2012. - "On Thursday, 2008 Libertarian vice-presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root announced that he was resigning from his positions within the Libertarian Party and joining the Republican Party. In the public letter he wrote, ... Root announced that he is endorsing Republican nominee Mitt Romney, saying, 'I don’t deny that Romney and Ryan aren’t libertarians, but Romney is a pro-business capitalist and Obama is a Marxist-socialist. The economy has been trashed. This is about my kids’ future, it’s about my businesses. There is no hope for America if Obama is re-elected.'
"In his resignation letter, Root also announced that he would seek a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada in 2016, saying he 'plan[s] to join Tea Party U.S. Senators like Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, Marco Rubio and Mike Lee in the near future, representing the great state of Nevada'."
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Sep. 7, 2012. - "On Thursday, 2008 Libertarian vice-presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root announced that he was resigning from his positions within the Libertarian Party and joining the Republican Party. In the public letter he wrote, ... Root announced that he is endorsing Republican nominee Mitt Romney, saying, 'I don’t deny that Romney and Ryan aren’t libertarians, but Romney is a pro-business capitalist and Obama is a Marxist-socialist. The economy has been trashed. This is about my kids’ future, it’s about my businesses. There is no hope for America if Obama is re-elected.'
"In his resignation letter, Root also announced that he would seek a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada in 2016, saying he 'plan[s] to join Tea Party U.S. Senators like Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, Marco Rubio and Mike Lee in the near future, representing the great state of Nevada'."
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Root was a terrible Libertarian, but he might make an okay Republican.
ReplyDeleteThat is an excellent point. It's like the old joke: "How's your wife?" "Compared to whom?" It makes a great deal of difference whether Root is being compared to John Hospers, Harry Browne, or Andre Marrou, or to Richard Nixon, John McCain, or Rick Santorum.
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