Bob Barr is watching them.
BARR ’08
Although I do not like Barr, he is far better than the 3 clowns now running. These are the worst possible choices. McCain is the only one of the GOP candidates for whom I cannot hold my nose and vote. Of concern is that he shows signs of being mentally ill and/or a sociopath. His lies are outrageous.
I am sick and tired of this slow cook toward socialism.
Vote for Bob Barr ... or whoever the Constitution Party puts forward ... see Barack get elected and then see him try to turn us into Great Britain overnight.
Maybe then people will wise up, revolt, and start heading back toward the Constitutional Republic we once were.
Some will say that we can't even afford that because in the few short years he is in office he could fill SCOTUS vacancies that will last for decades.
To that I say BUNK! If he puts in real losers then I am sure there is a way we can impeach them if they go too much against a hopefully improved tide of opinion.
If not, then America ends up getting what it deserves and life becomes a bit more fair.
Even if Barr didn't run (and there's no guarantees he'll be the LP nominee, there are 3 other libertarians vying for the nomination), a lot of conservatives are so angry with the GOP that they would've wrote in somebody else's name anyway. Plus you have the young adults and libertarians who've been crapped on by the GOP for years who would have wrote in Ron Paul's name.
That said, I wouldn't vote for Barr because of his ACLU ties, his head-in-the-sand defense policy and the fact that his foreign policy is even weaker than Paul's. I'm also glad that Paul isn't running 3rd party. I was hoping for a pure McCain vs Obama matchup so if McCain loses the GOP would have no choice but to become conservatives again. Unfortunately, now that Barr is running, the GOP have their scapegoat, they can keep being RINOs and keep blaming 3rd parties for their losses, as if they're somehow owed votes from disgruntled conservatives. Anyway, McCain is screwed. The base is angry, and with Ron Paul he at least prevented the libertarians from voting 3rd party had the GOP given him a voice, and he raised a bunch of money with virtually no media or political party support.
If the GOP wants to prevent future Bob Barrs from seeking the LP nomination, they need to at least co-opt several libertarian issues and start getting serious about cutting the size of government and spending again.
I don’t know about Barr. But the more I hear from McCain, the less likely it appears to be that he will ever earn my vote.
Let’s face it - no third party candidate is going to win this year. Nor next time, nor the time after that. But if enough conservatives skip voting for the top of the ticket, maybe the GOP will stop telling us to get lost.
For those who’d like to educate themselves:
http://bobbarr.org
Barr and the ACLU:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010888/posts
JMHO, but I think all too often we think of the voting process as picking the candidate we most closely agree with and all too often we forget that the outcome of the process is the selection of the next president of the US. Since these are not necessarily the same thing, I cannot, in good conscience waste my vote on a third party.
Sure, if you like bad comedy.
-PJ
No, he isn’t a good alternative.
I like Barr, but the Libertarian Party went moonbat on us. Their position on the war violates libertarian principles.
The first duty of government is to protect its citizens from the aggressive use of force. Islamofascism has been aggressively using force to enforce its will on the American people for decades. The LP should have been the first to call for the US government to act. Instead, they’ve traded principle for political calculation.
Until the LP returns to being “the party of principle”, I will not vote for any LP candidate.
I plan to vote for the most conservative candidate. If that’s Bob Barr, so be it.
No candidate will fill everyone's needs. All candidates are human and therefore imperfect.
The Democrats will be encouraging Barr every step of the way so as to help Obama. Just like the past two elections when I drove around Chapel Hill with a Nader bumper sticker that I got after donating to Nader.
Barr is an excellent alternative to the current "Big Two" Republicrats.
As it stands now Bob Barr is the only conservative that will be on my ballot. Therefore, he will get my vote.