Posted on 07/23/2008 9:46:18 AM PDT by FocusNexus
In fact, as much as he despised Clinton, Barr thinks President Bush is worse. "What George W. Bush has done to the fabric of our constitutional government, to separation of powers, to a government of limited powers is absolutely unforgivable," he said.
That prospect is greatest in Barr's home state of Georgia. Obama is already running ads targeting an untapped pool of African Americans and younger voters. State polls suggest Barr's single-digit following pulls mostly from McCain.
"If Barr can win 5 or 6 points of the total vote -- it's an if but it's conceivable -- then Obama could win Georgia," said Merle Black, who teaches political science at Emory University in Atlanta.
His vote to authorize the war? A mistake. The Patriot Act? Ditto. It was an excuse for unreasonable government spying. He has disowned the Defense of Marriage Act he championed, not because Jeri Barr is his third wife but because Libertarians don't believe in government telling people who to marry. (He says that is up to each state.)
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Way to go, Bob. Because getting Osama Obama elected is really going to help the Libertarian cause, right?
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Barr is no Libertarian.
He is fully on board with the Mega-Government, socialist Global Warming scam.
No, but it would surely help the ACLU.
My mistake that's Cynthia Mckinney.
In my view, Bob Barr and Cythia Mckinney are two peas of the same pod.
Barr’s single-digit IQ
Boob Bar is running for president. No thanks.
Actually, fools like Neal Boortz (famous radio mouth, high priest of libertarianism) believe it will! Boortz told his listeners to not vote for republicans in 2006, to teach the pubbies a lesson.
Libertarian BDS is particularly debilitating.
All he will succeed at is getting votes that would have gone to McCain thus electing B. Hussein. (hey that rhymes!)
GOP leader disses Barr
http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/23/gop-leader-disses-barr/
Reason magazine’s David Wiegel was having lunch with House Minority Leader John Boehner (R - Ohio) and around 50 conservative bloggers, reporters, and think-tankers. Then he got his question in: Might the Barr candidacy force the GOP to reform itself?
Boehner’s response:
“A vote for Bob Barr - you might as well vote for Barack Obama. If you want to throw your vote away, that’s fine. But that’s what it would be.”
That sound you hear a formerly conservative Congressman reaching his level of mental incompetence.
He’s also in favor of amnesty.
The nearly extinct L A Times doing a puff piece on Bob Barr is an operative argument for the irrelevance of the MSM.
Worse, he actually fought to prevent State and local law enforcement from going after illegals saying it was a 'federal only' responsibility.
The Libertarian party is completely clueless on foreign policy. Libertarians, including Bob Barr seem to think that you can “negotiate” with Iran, and “want to understand” Ahmadinejad. What are they going to do, WHEN Iran finished their nuclear missile development?
Libertarian Party says ‘Iran should not be the new Iraq’
http://www.frostillustrated.com/full.php?sid=3894
“Iran should not be the new Iraq,” said Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis. “An attack on Iran would be like opening the Pandora’s box of foreign policy. All the evils we’ve spent the last five years in Iraq trying to put back in the box would be unleashed all over again, and I fear this time the lid will never be able to be closed. Attacking Iran would be game over for our economy, our military readiness and the entire stability of the Middle East.”
The Libertarian Party’s position is that the U.S. should abandon its attempts to act as policeman for the world and avoid entangling alliances with other nations by eliminating economic and military aid. The party believes that free trade and diplomacy are the best tools for ensuring an America that is at peace with the world.
Defusing the confrontation with Iran will not be easy, Barr recently said, “but any nonproliferation strategy must begin with diplomacy and include a willingness to address the other side.”
Boehner is exactly right.
Bob Barr is worse than bad breath.
This guy was a laughing stock when he was in the House.
Bob Barr has reached the point of “diminished capacity”. He may have had some idea of what was going on, years ago, but he now needs to say something outrageous to just get attention. I think that he started to lose it during the impeachment of Clinton...He remembers the name “Bill Clinton” and just threw it up to compare President Bush to BC in a negative way. Next stop, DEMENTIA. It is really sad to see one end up this way. Wake up Libertarians, he is a loser who will only spoil the result of what should be a McCain victory in November.
>> As much as he despised Clinton, Barr thinks President Bush is worse. “What George W. Bush has done to the fabric of our constitutional government, to separation of powers, to a government of limited powers is absolutely unforgivable,” he said.
I don’t figure he’ll be getting much conservative support with that kind of nonsensical diatribe. Barr’s gone off the deep end.
I’m not a McCain fan — but I see no reasonable alternative. Barr’s position on the WOT and the Patriot Act is a dealbreaker. The Constitution Party guy is a catastrophe. Who’s left? Obama — nut job. Cynthia McKinney — nut job. Ralph Nader — nut job.
These people make John McCain look like a genius.
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Have you read "Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty" by Peter Schwartz? It really does outline how the Libertarian party has very little in common with people who have libertarian ideals. In this he says "If it were ever successful, it would destroy the remnants of freedom that still exist in this country far faster than of the more explicit enemies of liberty."
Unforgivable? Everyone forgave FDR and he did far worse.
The statement about President Bush alone will keep me voting for Bob Barr. It’s a lie and Bob knows it.
Bob Barr’s transformation to a “moron” is now complete.
I think Barr would be more of a problem if he had charisma.
That Barr is an idiot goes without saying; however, I find it strange how so many FReeps were praising this guy when he railed against McCain but now ridicule him when he correctly points out how incompetently the president has managed his term in office and how it has so negatively harmed the Republican Party.
Bob Barr couldn’t get re-elected to the House and has been a sore loser since then. He jumped aboard the ACLU scam and has been sinking into the morass that he made since then.
Well, its official
We all know who Barr wants to be POTUS and its not Barr
These whores will do anything for the promise of a position in the next presidency
I keep saying Obama is a well funded puppet
Whoever is pulling his strings has lots of money & power
“Way to go, Bob. Because getting Osama Obama elected is really going to help the Libertarian cause, right?”
And electing McCain will?
Barr has gone waaaay over the edge...McCain is extremely unpopular with the conservative base...on several issues. The trust issue among base voters is a big question with McCain. I as well as most here see it or hear it all the time.
McCain doesnt look like he even wants to beat Obama but he sure goes after “his” people if they speak up.
I cannot believe we are in this mess...maybe after a few yrs of Obama we can get back on track.
I had a little bit of respect left for Bob Barr until now, I really did.
He’s full of crap. Bush is a great man compared to the great Sink Staining Liar, Impeached42.
I think there may not be much of a republic left to defend if Hussein occupies the Oval Office. McCain goes off the conservative reservation more than I’d like, but Hussein is on another planet.
This is what happens when the Repubs are willing to throw people under the bus rather than supporting them from RAT Attacks. FRATricide.
How the mighty have gone bat-shit CRAZY!
Dang! Sounds just like John McCain!
“Dang! Sounds just like John McCain!”
Yes. On this issue, Barr agrees with both the moderate Democrat John McCain, and the Marxist radical Obama.
Aren’t *all* the candidates pro-amnesty?? It’s shoddy to have no real choice; I hope I’m wrong, but I know I’m not.
I suspect that former Border Patrol officers Ramos and Compean would agree with Barr on this point.
As I’ve said many times before, they all suck.
This too sounds like Ramos and Compean, who truly learned that “compassionate conservatism” is something of a GWB oxymoron.
Well it worked. It did teach Republicans a lesson. It taught them to nomimate a RINO.
Right wingers fail to understand. When they go off to third parties they move the political center to the left. To win Republicans have to replace them with more voters from the left of the old center. That is how the center gets moved to the left. The Republican party when Punished by the right must move to the left in order to have a chance to win.
Can you imagine what would happen if a third party candidate ever did get elected president. NO party can win control of the Senate in one election. And the odds of putting up candidates to win a majority of house seats are very slim.
That would live the house and senate in control of Democrats and Republicans. Who only agree on one thing. They would have to destroy the third party and to do that they would have to destroy the third party president and vice president. I would bet they could find, with the help of the media, enough grounds to impeach him and his VP in less than two years.
This nation is a two Party system. If you don't like either party get active in one of them and change it. A third party is always counter productive to its own goals.
“This nation is a two Party system. If you don’t like either party get active in one of them and change it. A third party is always counter productive to its own goals.” Wise words, well and truly stated.
I believe Mr. Barr is trying to be pragmatic about this - you cant reason with the global warming crowd, and if you tell them they are idiots for believing in junk science they plug their ears and wont listen to another thing you say - However to achieve energy independence we need these people to work with us, and I believe this is what Mr. Barr was trying to accomplish. This statement of his - “I am, however, also aware that scientists differ on its causes, impact and remedies. I remain
firmly committed to free market solutions and innovations to address this issue; not tax-driven policies.” (remember McCain supports cap and trade) he said this when he was at the Al Gore event - Someone on the global warming hysteria bandwagon would not speak such hypocrisy - which is why I feel confident in continuing to support Mr. Barr
Where is the Republican Party that stood for limited government, personal responsibility, a strong national defense, and against being the world’s policeman? As recently as the 90’s Republicans railed against a foreign policy of “making the world safe for democracy”, (which is historically the Democrats foreign policy, ala Woodrow Wilson) when Bill Clinton was President and he took us to war in Bosnia and Kosovo, without U.N. approval I might add. Which reminds me, the United Nations is something the GOP used to believe we needed to get out of. - From its inception, the Republican Party advocated a humble foreign policy in line with our founding fathers recommendations, now, with John McCain as the leader and voice of the GOP, we are told to get behind his idea for a “League of Democracies” which sounds terrifyingly similar to Wilson and his Progressive Democrats “League of Nations” almost 100 years ago.
I would remind you that before Lincoln, the Republican party was a minor 3rd party - the Democrats and the Whigs ran the show. The Libertarian party has more integrity than the Republicans right now - the dirty laudry they have given us is stinking up the nation. That being said - I pray the GOP gets its act together.
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