Liberty Maven

David Weigel points out some interesting facts about the GOP’s efforts for a makeover. He also quotes former Ron Paul campaign staffer Justine Lam being quite critical of Paul’s Campaign for Liberty.

“I was very skeptical at first,” Lam told me last week, “and I still am. Without Kent Snyder’s direction and vision [longtime Paul friend and ideas man Snyder died this year], this can degrade into one of Ron’s organizations from the past. Look at FREE—it’s nothing. All they do is self-publish Ron’s book, and not even at high quality. These organizations became salary collection devices for people close to Ron Paul. They didn’t become real forces like the Institute for Justice, for example, that are able to create change. They just exist.” Lam criticized the CfL for its “long, rambling” early e-mails—while it’s improved since launch it’s still not a group that has anything to teach Republicans.

Read it all here.