Posted at Delaware Libertarian by Brian Miller. Excerpt:

As the LNC continues to lurch towards collapse, with the latest news of mass layoffs at HQ, I’ve decided to begin tracking those things leading the national party to irrelevance, even as state and local parties gain power. As news, rumors and rhetoric break out, I shall chronicle them in this ongoing series at Delaware Libertarian. Organizations approaching failure have a number of characteristics. One of the most striking is renunciation of their purpose and effort to reinvent themselves as a “me-too” provider of services in the marketplace. In this, the LNC has been on a collision course with destiny for a while now. Recently, for example, it hired Republican Party web site developer TerraEclipse to redesign the LNC web site. Terra created a web site very similar to those of the clients it brags most about — far-right Republican conservatives like Tom McClintock and BJ Lawson. A quick look at the web site they built for the LNC is instructive. The tagline on the web site is “Smaller Government, Lower Taxes, More Freedom” — identical to right-wing Republican (and notorious culture-warrior) Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks web site, which advocates “Lower Taxes, Less Government, More Freedom.”

Article continues at http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2008/12/libertarian-national-committee.html

My questions, for the quoted section only:

“As the LNC continues to lurch towards collapse, with the latest news of mass layoffs at HQ”

Did I miss this news, and if so where can I find it? I am aware of one employee being fired, ambiguous discussions of staff cuts, and a budget shortfall which suggests there may be more employees fired – but nothing about any mass layoffs yet.



“Terra created a web site very similar to those of the clients it brags most about — far-right Republican conservatives like Tom McClintock and BJ Lawson.”

Is there something about the look of the website that is far right or otherwise ideological in nature? Or is it that Terra Eclipse determines content, not just design?



“A quick look at the web site they built for the LNC is instructive. The tagline on the web site is “Smaller Government, Lower Taxes, More Freedom” — identical to right-wing Republican (and notorious culture-warrior) Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks web site, which advocates “Lower Taxes, Less Government, More Freedom.””

Who made the decision of what tagline to put on the website? Terra Eclipse, LPHQ, LNC?

Asking these questions is not meant to presume I know the answers, which I don’t. If anyone does, please let us know in the comments.