Ep. 671 What I Told the Libertarian Party's National Convention
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
What's the best way forward for the Libertarian Party? There's some pretty strong medicine in this one, especially toward the end. Key point: product differentiation. We're not 30% different from Republicans and Democrats. We're certainly not "fiscally conservative and socially liberal." So what are we? And how should we spread the message? Juicy stuff here, I promise.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 671. |
| 0:03.6 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.2 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:13.9 | Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:15.8 | Back from the long weekend, I mentioned on Friday's episode 670, that I'd be taking Monday off as a mental health |
| 0:22.6 | day just because of all the traveling I've been doing. I got a lot going on in my life right now, |
| 0:27.7 | and I just needed that extra day. So here we are. I've got right now the audio of the talk I gave at |
| 0:35.8 | the Libertarian Party Convention. And it's not, unfortunately, it's not professional audio. The Libertarian Party did record it, |
| 0:42.3 | but the convention just ended, and by the time I get it, I think it's going to be just too long. |
| 0:48.3 | So I may use the video on my YouTube channel, or I'll figure something out in terms of what I'll do with the professional version. |
| 0:55.0 | But this is a version that was recorded by just someone. I don't actually know who it was, but it got to me through Facebook and I figured out how to get the audio from a Facebook video. |
| 1:05.0 | So I want to play it for you. I mean, you can understand everything I'm saying. It's just it's not the crystal clear audio you'd get if it were me, if it were recording through the microphone that they were using. But all the same, |
| 1:16.4 | you'll get what I'm saying without any problems. This was a talk given to the luncheon crowd |
| 1:22.9 | on Saturday. You had to be a gold or silver attendee to get in. So there were several hundred people |
| 1:29.8 | at it, but it wasn't the entire convention. And my feeling is that most of the people who would come |
| 1:36.8 | to see me would tend to have supported one of the non-Garry Johnson candidates. Now, that's not |
| 1:42.0 | absolutely true. There were certainly some Gary Johnson supporters in there, |
| 1:45.0 | but I think I was already speaking to a group that was inclined to agree with me. |
| 1:51.0 | So it would have been nice to get to a larger group, but I've never spoken to the LP National Convention before, |
| 1:57.0 | and I enjoyed doing it, and I got a chance to talk to a lot of great and interesting people. |
| 2:03.2 | I will have an episode this week. It may be as early as tomorrow, episode 672, in which I just |
| 2:09.7 | sit and talk about the Gary Johnson situation, because I'm not a fan of Gary Johnson. |
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