LIVEBLOG: Libertarian Debate on CSPAN [Updating...]

This is high comedy. C-SPAN is now carrying the Libertarian Presidential debate.

Yes, Mike Gravel is there. Oh baby!

UPDATE: So who is winning?
I say Jingozian, Kubby, then Gravel. Barr is laying low.

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Mike Gravel: not sure what he said but he was PISSED!

Mike Phillies: I am the centrist Libertarian

Mary Ruwart: Hillary Clinton is not principled like I am.

Steve Kubby: Has cancer - 6 months to live. supports medical marijuana and no government.

Wayne Allyn Root: i hate tax. i hate government. I'm a son of a butcher. I home school my children. Las Vegas is better than DC (I concede that point).  He apparently graduated Harvard with Obama.

Gravel just got a question posed to him. Isn't that weird? I mean this is a debate.

Phillies sucks. He's totally deranged.

I think this thing is taking place in a hotel lobby.  

Kubby: my favorite philosopher is the founder of the Libertarian Party. He said that liberty works. (Total pander).

Root: My favorite philosopher is Yogi Berra.  Holy shit. Stop yelling at me.

Gravel makes a good point - we make our enemies. Withdraw troops from everywhere. I'm down with this. We should stop being global imperialist. He rips the Military Industrial Complex again.

Gravel is quite good at giving short answers. He's conditioned to having Wolf Blitzer cutting him off.

Phillies - TOTAL. NUT. JOB.  This guy should have his on TV show.

Kubby says Obama has a lot of IOUs out there. I gave him some money though and I feel like I still owe him.

Ruwart: puts me to sleep.  

Everyone claps for everyone here. This is weird. Every answer gets applause.

Root: "bombing civilians does not help."  I concede this point.

Someone just said that the military is the biggest waste of cash.  Agreed. They get such a pass.

Barr talks: Fuck Bush (in so many words). Bring troops home.  We can't use the defense as offense. Nice point. He's no Nader though.

Phillies: projects his voice like no one else. at least he's down with renewable energy.

Kubby: as president I would drive my 1984 Mercedes that runs on cooking oil.  

Kubby: "I would urge Americans to think for themselves." HAHAHAHA!  Best line of the night.

Root: Totally sounds like he's doing an infomercial. I'm not buying.

Gravel: "We can get off gasoline in 5 years."  The energy crisis will be the end of this country.

Jigonzian: "I admit when I don't know things. And right now, I'm not sure what your question was about."

Someone just dropped their glass.  

Root: Al Gore is the 2nd largest polluter in the world. Right behind the US Govt.

Kubby: "Govt is a failure."  Blanket statement. Govt is a failure.

Ruwart: L I B E R T Y.  Get it?  

Ruwart: "9/11 could have been avoided if pilots could arm themselves"...or if we just installed steel doors in planes.

Kubby: calls out Barr.

Root: The war on terror will be won by privatizing it. Havent we done this? KBR? oh right. That didn't work either.

Barr: "We should burn the Patriot Act. And then burn it again." And then scatter it among the oceans.

Gravel: Libertarians will not control congress in the next 3 years. Probably this is spot on.

Phillies: "The Republicans and their lackeys the Democrats..."  Ouch. That hurts. Because it's true.

Jingozian: "How can you not like the Patriot Act. It has the word Patriot in it".  Nice.

Root: End the war on drugs. Legalize marijuana. And he gets a standing ovation. From me.

Barr: "the drug war does not work." No shit.

Ron Paul is way better than Barr. I hope Paul stays involved here.

Gravel: "More people are in jail here than any country in the world."

Dr. Phillies: "never underestimate the power of human stupidity."  

Someone just promised to pardon all non violent drug offenders on their first day in office. Now that I'd like to see.

Ruwart sounds like the voice of a female god speaking from the heavens.

Kubby: "I have a buzz"