From Eric Dondero:Atlanta-based radio talk show host, and longtime Libertarian Party member Neal Boortz, made a splash last year when he decided to move to Florida, and switch his party registration to Republican. He did it to vote for libertarian-leaning conservative Marco Rubio in the GOP primary against moderate Charlie Crist. But two developments have occured in the last few weeks to dramatically change the dynamic.
1. The Libertarian Party of Texas uninvited Boortz as a speaker, and shot out a press release announcing the snub.Now Boortz, is in a pickle as he describes at Neals Nuze:
2. Charlie Crist has decided to run for Senate as an independent.
It looks like tomorrow Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist will announce that he is with withdrawing from the GOP Senate primary and run for the Senate from Florida as an Independent. Here's hoping the voters in Florida will show him the error of his stimulus-bill-loving ways.Boortz has long been identified with the Pro-Defense wing of the Libertarian Party. In 2004, he bucked the AntiWar Libertarian nominee Michael Badnarik and publicly backed "Libertarians for Bush." Boortz backed the War in Iraq at the time, and caught a great deal of criticism from Libertarian Party members for his stance.
Now this does bring up my voter registration in Florida. In Florida you have to declare a party. I chose Republican for one reason ... to vote for Marco Rubio in the primary. Now that this isn't going to be an issue, should I change my registration? That would mean that I register with a "minor party" and then write Libertarian. Yes ... I'm considering this (not that it matters in the grand scheme of things), but considering the way the Libertarian Party has been behaving toward me lately ... perhaps not.
Note - Libertarians for Bush was the precursor for LibertarianRepublican.net.
5 Bloviations:
And how does this help?
Eric,
It was not the Libertarian Party of Texas which uninvited Boortz as a speaker, it was the national LP (although Texas did put out a press release about it) which canceled his speech at its national convention next month.
That wasn't for ideological reasons, it was for partisan reasons -- he recently came out urging people NOT to vote Libertarian this November, but to pull for another party instead.
And that's the way it should be. If Rush Limbaugh was scheduled to speak at the GOP national convention, then came out on his show urging people to stay away from the Republicans and vote Democrat in November, he'd be off the schedule in a hot minute.
If Neal Boortz thinks Marco Rubio is a libertarian then Boortz must be delusional.
"And that's the way it should be. If Rush Limbaugh was scheduled to speak at the GOP national convention, then came out on his show urging people to stay away from the Republicans and vote Democrat in November, he'd be off the schedule in a hot minute."
Knapp are you still invited to Libertarian Party functions after founding the Boston Tea Party?
Dan,
You write:
"Knapp are you still invited to Libertarian Party functions after founding the Boston Tea Party?"
To the best of my recollection, I have not been invited TO SPEAK at a national Libertarian Party function since founding the Boston Tea Party.
Or, for that matter, prior to doing so.
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