May 29, 2004
Decision Time -- 9 AM EST, on C-Span

Not surprisingly, my three recent posts about the 2004 LP presidential campaign have stirred up some controversy, and some people are understandably angry with me for being "anti-Russo", particularly at the time we need to "get together behind whoever the nominee is". I'm going to post a last explanation of why I did what I did soon, as I've found myself having to justify myself in a few places around the LP 'net...and since these things have only been posted for a matter of days, who knows what is yet to come in terms of P.O.'d Libertarians.

Frankly, I will be so glad when the party picks its nominee tomorrow morning, no matter who it is -- just because it will be done and I can stop carrying the weight of concern that I have been living with since December, when I first started to really care about the 2004 LP race. (If nothing else, Aaron Russo accomplished that much.)

I'm not going to get to the post where I talk about the strengths of Russo and what Nolan has been lacking, at least not before the nomination voting, which is in six hours in Atlanta. There's no more influencing left to do, really. What I am going to do is post something like a top ten list of recommendations to whichever candidate wins the nomination. I don't know if I'll get that out this weekend. Probably not.

I posted yesterday that I was getting up early to watch the convention on C-Span, but it wasn't on early today. Sorry for getting that wrong -- I must have misread the C-Span schedule. It is on early Sunday though -- 9 AM Eastern time. The nomination speeches will be given, then the nominee will be chosen, and the winner will speak -- probably for 15 minutes or so. I think that's about how long the acceptance speech has been the last two times.

Check it out if you're up that early! It's one of the only times in the year that Libertarians are the focus of a full hour or more of national TV. (Yeah, I know...it's just C-Span, but still.)

Posted by Lance Brown at May 29, 2004 11:51 PM
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