Kentucky libertarians won’t field U.S. Senate candidate against Paul

[ccharles000]

The Libertarian Party of Kentucky won’t recruit a candidate for this fall’s U.S. Senate race despite the discomfort some have with Republican candidate Rand Paul, according to one of the libertarians’ top officials.

“We had a discussion about running a candidate,” said K. Joshua Koch, the party’s vice chairman, in an interview with cn|2 Politics. “We’ve discussed it, and the cost involved and the lack of a winning candidate stepping forward means that we’re not going to be running someone against Rand Paul.”

Koch said the cost he was referring to was the amount of time and volunteers needed to solicit the 5,000 signatures for a libertarian to get on Kentucky’s statewide ballot. (The party does have interested candidates in congressional races, which require 400 signatures). It is much easier to generate interest in a statewide libertarian candidate during a presidential election year than an off-year, he said.

Koch — who served as a spokesman for Kentucky supporters of Paul’s father Ron Paul during the 2008 presidential election — issued a press release last week in which the libertarian party distanced itself from the younger Paul, specifically over his highly-publicized comments regarding the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

http://politics.mycn2.com/2010/06/01/kentucky-libertarians-unlikely-to-field-u-s-senate-candidate/

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Libertarians don't mind people who are against Libertarian principles

as long as it's the liberal Libertarian principles. But try saying that businesses can't do whatever the hell they want.

[harkadog]

2. Bad news.

The lack of a "winning candidate" has usually not stopped Libertarians from fielding candidates.