I realize I'm a noob here, though I'm far from a noob on ideology.  I plan on getting seriously involved in the LP.  However, I just visited Marakay Rogers website (I.E. Libertarian Attorney General candidate) and here's the candidates self-proclaimed belief structure:


Here's the site.  2006 gubernatorial campaign.  http://www.geocities.com/mjr91/RogersforAG.html .

Just trying to figure out what type of libertarianism that is and why a party holding views in nearly perfect opposition (in most of the cases) would endorse a candidate holding them?

Edit: nevermind.  I see now that it's some sort of a Green-Libertarian-Nader alliance candidate situation.

Well, I will start by saying that i was taken (way) back by this candidate (a former green) and I couldn't make the board meeting where she was to give a presentation, then a question and answer, before the board voted on her as our AG Candidate.    

I follow all 3rd parties rather close and this might be a first.  (Green to LP, at this level)  So i had a friend video tape the interview.  She did well and won the nomination by the board.  Not a purist LP, but way up there on the Nolan Chart.  I can dig up for the video if you would like to see it.    

Two leaders in the LPPA know Ms. Rogers well, and stated that for years told her to come to the party she really belongs in, The LP.  She finally left the Greens at a high level in their National Party and came onboard with us.    

Now meeting her several times, i feel she is libertarian, just from the socialist left.    

Try not to judge the book by it's cover.  Email her, meet her, challenger her couple of socialist beliefs, and then make up your mind.  She might someday see her positions change on a couple of things you stated.   I believe in more control over our boarder, bringing the military home and standing guard.  I believe that abortion rights are up to the individual states to decide.  I am not sure what i as a Libertarian would have voted for getting into WWII.  I likely would have gone after just Japan, but would not have disrupted their trade in the first place.  Does that make me not a libertarian?      

The same can be said regarding Bob Barr and his pass voting record.  But i believe he is a changed man.   But he also said that the US needs to get out of the war on drugs issue and bring to the state level.  (he does not say end the war on drugs)  

Try to come to a LP county meeting or a state board meeting.  This is great discussion and always comes up.  

I agree #4 and #5 are very socialist, and need to be questioned more.

What say you?

I think that may be an old website from when she was running as a Green Party candidate.  I just checked her current website www.rogersforattorneygeneral.org and I didn't see those same positions.

I agree with John Galinac's view she could help promote several issues like Ballot Access and efforts to fend off the Real ID Act in the position of Attorney General.  Marakay is running a very active campaign and at least her marketing materials reference the Libertarian Party which is more than some of our other candidates have done.

Again, check the new site and I think you will be relieved that bullet points #4 and #5 are not present.

<<<< My question is regarding the non-force pledge for membership.   Is that a pledge of pacifism, or more a pledge of non-intervention and non-coercion? >>>>>

Get a six pack of your favorite beverage and happy reading... 

The NIF is one hot topic.  If you want to post (reply) something on this subject, please use that thread if you could (below, cut and paste).  Let me (us) know if there are any specifics that are not covered.   

http://www.lppa.org/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,60/topic,33343.0/

P.S.  Do you know where Blue Knob Auto is? 

Sure.  About a 10 minute drive from me.  If that.

I just read the thread on the pledge. haha.  Seems there are many with the same types of questions about it.  Anyway, it sufficiently answered my questions.  I'm in.

Very possible.  I can't imagine him supporting libertarians though.  He gets extremely hung up on the "moral decay" of society and things of that nature.  He's a tough guy to get a read on... and to relate it to the party-pledge, he would absolutely laugh at it. 

I think he would be much more in-line with the CP than libertarians.  But who knows?

I'd like to thank everyone who realized that the governor site is old.  Very old.  Back when I was a Green who had to keep arguing with all the other Greens that we weren't supposed to be an affiliate of the Socialist Party.  Nonetheless, I had to represent all the planks of the party no matter how -- er -- "unfortunate" they were.

The more I learned, once I became a national delegate in the GP, about how the party operated on the inside and what the real insiders were thinking, the more I realized I didn't and couldn't fit in with their ideology, nor did I want to.  I won't get into that here, but I could write about it for ages. 

Put me on the Nolan chart and I'm a "left libertarian" but still solidly in the libertarian field.  That was something I realized even back when I was a registered Green.  My primary reason for not registering as Libertarian sooner (there is a small group of Greens and Libertarians, both, who listened to me wrestle with the idea of a switch for about 2 years) was that I was seduced by popular thinking about Libertarians ("how can they be for "x" and "y" at the same time?  Isn't that contradictory?") rather than understanding just how consistent Libertarian thought was and why it made perfect sense.  Once everything fell into place I had no further concerns.

I was trained as a historian but in English history, not American.  The more I study colonial and revolutionary American history, the more I appreciate Libertarian philosophy and the more pleased I am to have changed my registration.

Thank you for the clarification.

I watched and thought you did very nicely as well.  Although some of those callers were pretty out-there with asking you about their personal cases lol.  It was sort of entertaining, but sort of annoying.  You'll have that on PCN though.