(As regards the latter, we have the late R.W. Bradford and Liberty to thank for a thorough investigation into the misbehaviours of the LP under Mr. Browne's leadership, misbehaviours that only began when Mr. Browne himself broke the LP National Committee rules against employing LP workers on behalf of any candidate's campaign for office until said candidate had indeed garnered the formal LP nomination to that office. It was those misbehaviours, plus incidents in which the LP actively, and shamelessly, rejected and even smeared any such attempt by Bradford and other Liberty writers to reveal those misbehaviours, that provoked me to drop my LP membership a few years ago.)
Mr. Browne was not the first and will not be the last who should have remained the writer he was, when all was said and too much done, without giving in to the temptation to exercise beyond his competence. The cause of freedom, of individual rights and sovereignty, and of properly construed government as opposed to the improperly-consecrated State, would have been served far better had he resisted said temptation and kept his best instrument in sharp tune: his pen. (Well, his keyboard.) At its best, that pen (keyboard) was a more effective weapon than any political weapon he could have fired.
May your soul rest in peace, Mr. Browne.