Or was it blackmail?
Probably a little of both...she promised to leave his FBI file safely hidden in her underwear drawer.
I have to admit that Bob Barr getting active in the LP always struck me as odd.
As everyone might recall from his last Congressional race, the LP ran ads "targeting" Barr for defeat because they were angry about his record on their little pet issue, ending the drug war.
Why would Barr want to help a party that worked to throw him out of office? And even though he agreed with them on 90% of the issues, Barr never even struck me as much of a strong libertarian-leaning guy in office, because of the aforementioned drug war stuff and the fact he was a hard-core pro-life absolutist and because shrinking and dismantling various parts of the federal government was never a huge factor in his campaigns.
What do you guys think? The LP sweetened the deal with Barr and promised him some goodies, or Barr went off the deep end and started buying their platform?