CarbonCopyPRO issued a press release on June 27, to call attention to an interview with Wayne Allyn Root, in which Root endorses the company’s product. The CarbonCopyPRO release says that Root is “the expected Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. president in 2012”, and in the interview, Root is introduced as “the lead presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party in 2012.” The press release contains a link to the 13-minute interview.
Root does well in the interview, and he does not refer to himself as the front-runner for the nomination. Ever since individuals have been campaigning for the presidential nomination of various U.S. political parties (major and minor alike), it has been taboo for such individuals to assert that they are the front-runners, even if they are. Political wisdom says that such candidates deflect such labels, especially early in the process, because holding oneself out as the front-runner makes that individual a target of every other individual seeking the nomination.
This is off-topic, but is it just my computer or has anyone else been having trouble accessing IPR’s web site over the past few days?
No, it’s not your computer. IPR server has been down but is expected to be fixed Monday (tomorrow).
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It’s also sometimes taboo to BEHAVE like the front-runner. In 1980, George H. W. Bush won the Iowa Republican caucuses, after front-running Ronald Reagan skipped a candidates’ forum.
But Reagan, of course, made a big comeback in the New Hampshire primary.