I could not have said it any better myself!  Thank you Ernie for your 'no-compromise' attitude - the biggest problem in the world today is people 'sacrificing principle for power'.

Stick to your guns!

Ed

"Liberty-tarian" as Michael Badnarik likes to call it. 

I agree with Ed, the powerful 500 word statement by Ernie Hancock is yet another example of his dedication to the Truth, Liberty, Personal Responsibility, Freedom and R3VOLUTION.

Standards we live by and conduct our activism include the realities that: "We have already won" and "We vote every time we hang a sign, do a street action or hand out a flyer or DVD. "

It is all about freeing minds and Ernie is one of the BEST out there constantly spreading the message.

To quote Ernie:  "Freedoms The Answer!  What is the Question? " 

You all probably know that I believe Ernie is a great activist, but that I support another candidate for LNC chair. So I'm sure I'll be attacked for anything I write. Sigh.

Quite frankly, I was confused by Ernie's 500 words. After reading it, I still don't understand what Ernie's "motivations for seeking the LNC chair" are. As Ernie has said several times, he doesn't need to be LP chairman to advance his cause.

The sentence that was most curious to me was this one -

"I offer nothing less than participation in a worldwide LOVEolution."

Let me get this right - if the LP members elect Ernie as chair, he will bring the LP into "the LOVEolution", which is the moniker Ernie has given to the brand of libertarian activism that he promotes. Does that sentence mean that the LP can't participate in "the LOVEolution" if the LP chooses someone other than Ernie as LP chair? I hope not. We all need to stick together. What if that someone chosen as chairman is W.A.R.? Will Ernie abandon the LP if W.A.R. is elected chairman?

Don, Root wants to run a one-man show. To be a big fish in a small pond.

Ernest understands the big picture.  He has friends throughout the broad liberty movement.  And he was a major architect/fire-brand of *THE* libertarian outreach event of the past 40 years: the Ron Paul Revolution.  I don't know what more you could want.  Good things will happen with Ernie as the chair.  Root will still be free to go on talk shows, and you'll still be just as able to try to win elections as today.  But Ernest will be better for the organization and the grassroots and for keeping the LP relevant.  After Bob stinking Barr, the continued existence of the LP as anything meaningful is in serious doubt.