Source: Independent Political Report

Source: Independent Political Report

From Wayne Root, 2008 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nominee:

Wayne will be appearing on Fox & Friends, the #1 morning show on cable TV on Sunday at 7:50 AM ET/4:50 AM PT to discuss his commentary “The Party That Booed God” and why Wayne, the former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, has just resigned from the LP to re-join The Republican Party as a Tea Party Libertarian Republican, and is endorsing Mitt Romney for President of the United States. Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

To My LNC and Libertarian Party Friends,

I have spent the last 60 days thinking about my political future. I have consulted with many friends and political experts I trust. I have listened to my wife and my family’s wishes. And I have come to an important decision — perhaps among the most important of my life.

It has been a whirlwind last five years in my political career. I started as a S.O.B. (son of a butcher), Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

On September 6, Wayne Root, Libertarian vice-presidential nominee in 2008, switched from being a member of the Libertarian Party to being a member of the Republican Party. However, in a statement, he said, “If the GOP needs to keep Libertarian Party candidates off the ballot, then it shows a weakness in the GOP’s message. I will fight to get that message across…I will be a libertarian Republican fighting for the Libertarian Party’s right to have ballot access.” Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

Source: Independent Political Report

Mitt Romney has only officially been the Republican Party’s presidential candidate for three days, but several Libertarians are already upset that Wayne Allyn Root, who is the chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committe, and an At-Large member of the Libertarian National Committee appears to be campaigning for Mitt Romney and his vp candidate, Paul Ryan.

IPR received the following letter from New Mexico’s chair, Mike Blessing, last night: Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

Earlier tonight Matt Drudge (http://www.drudgereport.com) posted a link to an article authored by Wayne Allyn Root in what Mike Riggs, an associate editor at Reason magazine, in a critique titled “Wayne Allyn Root Is Why the Libertarian Party Can’t Have Nice Things” describes as:

This awful, weird, conspiratorial column . . . will probably be the most widely read thing Root has ever written.

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Source: Independent Political Report

In the following email sent to LNC Members yesterday, former Vice-Presidential Nominee, Chair of the Libertarian National Campaign Committee, author of “Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold and Tax Cuts,” Vice-Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Nevada, King-of-Las-Vegas, Capitalist Evangelist, Reagan Libertarian, and current At-Large member of the Libertarian National Committee, Wayne Allyn Root wrote: Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

In an apparent response to recent criticism of the Libertarian Party and Libertarian National Committee (LNC) by LNC member Wayne Allyn Root, LNC member Starchild offered the following analysis and recommended reading to all other LNC members:

Wayne seems to be suggesting here that libertarianism qua libertarianism just can’t/won’t appeal to people. That it can only appeal to people if it is peddled as either liberalism or Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

This email appeared on the LNC Discuss List, and made its way to the LP Radicals Caucus page on Facebook. Is Wayne planning on leaving the LP? Is this a threat, or an announcement?

At this time, IPR is seeking confirmation of both the authenticity of this email and Mr. Root’s intentions. Read more »