Posted on 10/09/2004 10:21:02 PM PDT by CJHughes
Other than the borders thing, regarding which Kerry is worse, what we have here is a guy in the pay of the ACLU. The guy is whining about the Patriot Act in general, without one word about foreign policy or terrorists, and their plans for the US. Pathetic, but then I never supported Barr ever. I had his number early on.
Poor Bob could not resist drinking the ACLU Kool Aid.
He is correct on most points. There is almost no talk nowadays about the proper role of the federal governmet...every role is proper for the feds. Very few, except commited conservatives and libertarians, ask if Congress has the authority to pass the program du jour.
You were smarter than me, but then I never payed Barr that much attention unless he was saying something against Clinton.
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So when he's speaking out against Clinton he's credible, but when he's speaking out about Bush, he's not?
Bush's spending habits bug me. Being blown up bugs me a bit more. I'll stick with Bush.
This is the first I've heard of Republicans ready to bolt from Bush.
Bush's spending habits bug me. Being blown up bugs me a bit more. I'll stick with Bush.
I agree, but at some point we have to address the growing power of the federal government. I do not believe that in the long term it is beneficial for liberty to have a central government with unlimited jurisdiction.
One expects a republican to cut taxes. But one also expects a republican to cut spending, thus resulting in a smaller government.
Okay sure Bob go ahead and that is going to accomplish what? Oh year a Kerry win - that would really help the Homeland Security you want. Kerry has already said he is for amnesty for all illegal aliens. Then he changes the Patriot Act, giving us less safeguards again. He is proposing 2.5 trillion is additional spending. Yeah Bob that will be much better than Bush.
What a twit. I always thought he looked like one of those kids who always asked the teacher to give extra homework and whose books you couldn't resist knocking out from under his arm. Now he's behaving like one.
No, it's just that I happened to agree with his criticism of Clinton and wasn't discrimatory enough about who was making the criticism.
I can understand that, but I look at it as a matter of priorities. Which is the graver threat: Bigger government spending or terrorism?
I don't like either, but I think that we have to look at first things first.
How is this for a reason to stay with him?
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Good grief! Bob Barr, Joe Scarborough, John Kasich ... All a bunch of wimpy, weasel, chameleons.
I don't trust Bob Barr at all. That being said, I only fear the Patriot Act in one scenario: where an unethical Democrat decides to play dirty tricks with it's provisos (get a dirty judge and you can lock someone up indefinitely, search without warrants etc...) I only worry when it is in the hands of a Democrat President like Clinton or Kerry... But, in the time of war, we make compromises we later have to fix. Free Speech vs "Loose Lips Sink Ships"
His argument about the economy Bush inherited is disengenuous. It ignores the fact that 9/11 and the bursting of the dotcom bubble dramatically reduced federal revenues. It also ignores that the wonderful Clinton economy was largely an ilusion which was bound to collapse on its own eventually.
Me neither.
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