Hm. The Campaign for Liberty just now -- within three days of its unofficial launch -- reached 50% of its membership goal...a goal set to be reached by September 2, 2008...which is the official scheduled launch date.

Yeah, I think the movement is more than alive and kicking. Why don't you come check it out for yourself and see why so many have eagerly jumped on board? CampaignForLiberty.com

Yeah, well, that ha a lot to do with the kind of people each group embraces. I'm not convinced the Republicans.. even libertarin leaning ones, will embrace any group Paul has much to do with.

But the people that used Dean's organization to launch their political careers changed the organization much more than it changed them. DemocracyForAmerica has become much less ideologically driven, and more logistically driven. It's still got it's ideology, of course, but it's the practical logistics that it was forced to adopt that really made it mainstream.

Ron Paul was a radical, for sure, but he won't be able to promote radicals (because radicals by nature can't agree with each other), so he will likely be promoting progressive libertarian conservatives, who will moderate his organization into something that can actually work for them.

That all depends, really, on whether or not Ron Paul can remove himself from the organization like Howard Dean did, or if he will insist on steering it in directions the people he wants to promote don't want to go.

So far that's been working out pretty well for the Democrats.

Yeah, well, that ha a lot to do with the kind of people each group embraces. I'm not convinced the Republicans.. even libertarin leaning ones, will embrace any group Paul has much to do with.