"Do I get my gold coin back?" Ron Paul on the Libertarian Party convention controversy...
"Am I kicked out of the Libertarian Party?" Ron and his Liberty Report co-host Daniel McAdams discuss the recent controversy within the LP where a grassroots sought to have lifetime LP Member Ron speak at the upcoming party convention but the party leadership said "no way." Here's Ron's humorous take on the controversy...
"Am I kicked out of the Libertarian Party?" Ron and his Liberty Report co-host Daniel McAdams discuss the recent controversy within the LP where a grassroots sought to have lifetime LP Member Ron speak at the upcoming party convention but the party leadership said "no way." Here's Ron's humorous take on the controversy...
"Am I kicked out of the Libertarian Party?" Ron and his Liberty Report co-host Daniel McAdams discuss the recent controversy within the LP where a grassroots sought to have lifetime LP Member Ron speak at the upcoming party convention but the party leadership said "no way." Here's Ron's humorous take on the controversy...
You know, Dr. Paul, I've been following this controversy a lot.
I don't know if you've read about this, but within the Libertarian Party, there's a Mises caucus, and they hew closer to the Mises line on a lot of these things.
Well, they wanted to have you speak at the upcoming LP convention, the Mises Caucus.
They wanted to have you as a speaker.
But from what I've read, someone really put the kibosh on that, and they said no way.
Actually, the Mises Caucus even raised the money, I think, to get you out there to talk.
Someone said no, they said no way that the convention coordinator said no way, no Ron Paul.
Does that make you feel sad?
Well, you know, I wondered about that, and I heard a little bit about it, but I wondered.
I thought the Libertarian Party would be for Mises.
I didn't know they had to have another caucus, but I find that really fascinating.
Matter of fact, I did get some vibes from this.
Somebody might have called us down, not me directly.
I didn't talk to anybody.
And I indicated, well, we'll look into it because I've spoken to the Libertarian Party meetings before, even though I've sort of skirted things Republican and Libertarian, but I'm still a member of the Libertarian.
I'm a lifetime member.
A lifetime member.
I don't think this isn't equivalent to kicking me out, is it?
I mean, they're just preventing me from speaking.
So that's not disbarring me from the Libertarian Party.
Besides, if they did that, I wonder if it would be okay if I could ask for my gold coin back.
Because I paid my lifetime membership in 1987 with a gold coin.
Did you?
So to make a point, you know.
So this would be interesting.
That's worth a little more nowadays, anyway.
That's right.
But no, I'm open to talking with them, so I don't know exactly what's going on.
It used to be that they would ask me to come frequently, and a lot of times I couldn't do it.
But we'll have to see what happens, see if they really want me or not.
Well, I think one of the things that the leadership of the party, rather than the rank and file, they weren't happy that you were critical of the ticket last time.
You didn't love Bill Weld.
So I think that might be, they said he has no idea what the LP represents, is what the coordinator said.
Well, you know, I wasn't happy with what the Republicans were doing or the Democrats.
And I know something about not being allowed to speak in the Republican Party.
You know, I've been a candidate, an official candidate, qualified and all.
Did finally get in the debates, but there were some times when I didn't get in the debates.
And sometimes what we had to do is have our own little organization in order to counteract what was going on.
So this is probably not new.
It's not unique to the Libertarian Party, but there's always factions going on.
And it doesn't get me too upset because I think in terms of ideologies and philosophy, and I think in a bigger picture of the freedom philosophy, the libertarian approach should infiltrate Republican Democrats and libertarians, you know, so that we can have everybody.
And that's what happens when an idea whose time has come, it will infiltrate.
Right now, I think those ideas are coming together and the libertarian message should be leading the charge.
But when you look at the leadership, it just seems like so often they melt away when you look at the Republicans and the Democrats.
And Republicans, you know, say that they like libertarians.
And there's a few Republican libertarians in office.
But the leadership is so bad in all the political parties.
They seem to go along.
And that's annoying.
So this Mises caucus seems to like you.
Maybe they'll have an alternative party at the election and we'll all sit down and talk about that.
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That would be interesting.
It could be fun.
You know, we could see that because, of course, I've been promoting Austrian economics and Mises for a long time.
He's been a big influence.
And if anybody should be praising a particular economist, it should be the Libertarian Party because they've been more open about Austrian economics.