C4L: Getting Close!

In just a little over a month, the 2012 Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) will get underway in Chantilly, Virginia!

If you haven't yet purchased your ticket(s), I hope you'll make plans right away to join us for what is guaranteed to be an inspiring, motivating, and refreshing weekend with hundreds of like-minded liberty activists.

Confirmed speakers include Congressman Ron Paul, Senator Rand Paul, Senator Mike Lee, Jerry Doyle, Joel Salatin, Brian Doherty, Mike Church, Jack Hunter, and - we're proud to announce - Senator Jim DeMint and Congressman Scott Garrett!

In addition to hearing the latest on the pressing issues of the day from our speakers, our second-to-none grassroots training will provide you with powerful, battle-tested tools to make you the most efficient, effective grassroots activist possible.

It’s political activism laid out so simply, even Lindsey Graham could understand!

LPAC 2012 will be held at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia, on September 13-15.

A ticket to all three days of main stage activities is available for only $120, which includes our training!  (The training is also available separately for those who can’t attend the entire Conference.)

To see more of our speakers and get further details on everything LPAC-related, visit www.LPAC.com.

My staff and I hope to see you in Virginia this September!

In Liberty,

Matt Hawes
Vice President

“Crashing” the Party?

Today, the New York Times has a story about Ron Paul, his movement and the progress Paul supporters have made in reshaping the Republican Party. Typical of what you might expect from the NYT, it says Paul supporters are “crashing” the party. Reason’s Brian Doherty sets them straight:

NYT:

In Minnesota, Paulites stormed the Republican gathering in St. Cloud last weekend, bumping aside two conventional Republican candidates to choose one of their own, Kurt P. Bills, a high school economics teacher, to challenge Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, this fall.

Backers of Mr. Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, crashed Republican conventions in Iowa, Maine, Minnesota and Nevada in recent weeks, snatching up the lion’s share of delegate slots for the Republican National Convention in Tampa this August, a potential headache for the national party and its presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney.

Reason/Doherty:

It’s not “crashing,” New York Times. These conventions are open to Republicans of all sorts to follow the rules and vote as they wish. Winning elections on any level is not “crashing.” It’s succeeding at politics, which the Ron Paul people are proving unexpectedly good at. Ahem, OK, back to the Times‘s wisdom:

NYT:

And Paulite candidates for Congress are sprouting up from Florida to Virginia to Colorado, challenging sitting Republicans and preaching the gospel of radically smaller government, an end to the Federal Reserve, restraints on Bush-era antiterrorism laws and a pullback from foreign military adventures.

“I’d call it a strict constitutional approach,” said Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky and Ron Paul’s son. “And I think it’s spreading.”