Here is my wrap-up of the Libertarian National Convention. I also included links to other places that were covering the convention at the end of the post.
Libertarian National Convention live-blogging:
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Day 3
- Presidential Debate
- Day 4
Convention Pictures:
- Part 1
- Part 2
Videos:
- Libertarian Party Presidential Debate (Part 1)
- Libertarian Party Presidential Debate (Part 2)
- Post-Debate Press Conference (Gravel only)
- Post-Debate Press Conference
- Bob Barr’s nomination speech
- Christine Smith booed down
- Bob Barr’s acceptance speech
- Post-Nomination Press Conference
Other blogs following the convention:
- Last Free Voice: Make sure you check out the posts by Steve Perkins, a fellow delegate from Georgia.
- JacquelinePassey.com: Jacqueline linked to me several times over the weekend. She has a great round-up of blog coverage of the convention.
- The Liberty Papers: Stephen Littau was all over the place this weekend, hunting down candidates and live-blogging the debate and votes.
- Robert Stacy McCain: He was blogging both at his personal blog and the American Spectator.
- Reason: Dave Weigel’s posts can be found here.
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drjay 05.27.08 at 12:27 pm
who is christine smith and why was she so disliked???
StevePerkins 05.27.08 at 3:00 pm
Smith was a really low-tier candidate (voted off the island in the first round with less than 1%)… who really, REALLY wanted to be on TV.
In the week before the convention, she pissed off a lot of people by going on a radio show and smearing Mary Ruwart (the main “anybody-but-Barr” candidate). Then at the convention, she flipped 180-degrees and blasted Barr on national TV. She doesn’t really have any friends left anywhere at this point.
Jason Pye 05.27.08 at 3:07 pm
Steve’s description of Smith is dead on.
When she gave her nominating speech, she got on stage and looked around the room for ten seconds before saying anything.
That was the biggest stage she’ll ever be on.
Bill Simon 05.27.08 at 4:21 pm
No prayer breakfast??? What are you people, against GOD?
Rick Day 05.27.08 at 5:41 pm
Excellent work, JP. Thanks for doing this.
Now, can we get you to do that ‘neck’ thing that Stone Phillips does? Its the closest thing we will get to MSM coverage on this convention.
Bill: I thought about making a comment along the lines of I pray at breakfast you get a butt boil, but since I’m an atheist it would be a meaningless prayer anyway. But I decided not to.
Do the Christian thing. Forgive us.
StevePerkins 05.27.08 at 5:48 pm
You don’t know the half of it, Bill… I didn’t even see many American flag lapel pins!
Bill Simon 05.27.08 at 6:00 pm
LOL! Good one, Steve.
Jason Pye 05.27.08 at 6:05 pm
Neck thing?
I don’t really watch much tv these days.
Jason Pye 05.27.08 at 6:13 pm
Well, we did have one member of the Georgia delegation with an American flag shirt.
Chris Farris 05.27.08 at 6:30 pm
I bought my American Flag tie at an LP convention. I’m not sure I’ve ever worn it. Too Gaudy.
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