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Former Republican [Bob Barr] to seek Libertarian presidential nomination
CNN ^ | 5-8-2008 | CNN

Posted on 05/08/2008 11:13:54 AM PDT by jmc813

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To: Lou L

Yep.


61 posted on 05/08/2008 12:26:00 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: MindBender26
What would a vote NOT for McCain get us? Osamabama for president.

Maybe. But I will not vote for someone who wants the Feds to regulate and criminalize political speech. If the GOP has such a person running for President, that is their mistake, not mine.

62 posted on 05/08/2008 12:26:30 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy
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To: A CA Guy
Just don’t complain if you get a President Obama.

Sure I will. It is every American's right to complain about Presidents who are socialists and violate the constitution. If the GOP puts up a bad candidate, that is their problem, not mine. It's not my fault if their bad candidate loses. I am doing my job and voting for the person that I want to win.

63 posted on 05/08/2008 12:29:04 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy
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To: MuttTheHoople

That would be too much like work. It would also validate history and the political party “system.” That’s not what these people want. They just want to moan about how awful things are in our country and claim they are somehow above the herd by voting for pathetic looney losers.


64 posted on 05/08/2008 12:29:26 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: fightinJAG
Yeah, you go ahead and vote for someone for President of the United STates whom you regard as “sort of nuts.”

I'll take a conservative who is sort of nuts over a RINO who isn't any day. Oh, wait, but McCain is really nuts.

65 posted on 05/08/2008 12:29:48 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy
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To: jmc813

And that was wrong how?


66 posted on 05/08/2008 12:30:45 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: KDD

Well said, though I will probably write-in Ron Paul. At least HE is one I can actually vote for without having to hang my head in shame!


67 posted on 05/08/2008 12:31:40 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
People like Pat Buchanan and Bob Barr are conservatives who walk out when their brand of orthodoxy isn’t followed 100%.

And so are the people who vote for them!

68 posted on 05/08/2008 12:31:40 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: alicewonders

Nice show of personal responsibility there, alice.


69 posted on 05/08/2008 12:32:23 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: jmc813

“Is it me or is every Democrat candidate the “most left-wing in history”?”

If McCain is elected then the same statement would be true, wouldn’t it? Wouldn’t he be considered the “most left-wing in history”?


70 posted on 05/08/2008 12:32:23 PM PDT by El Gran Salseron ("Terisn" is my new favorite word. Thank you, Allegra.)
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To: Chickensoup
I distinctly remember hearing this about Gore and Kerry.

Yep. And it was accurate.

And now it's accurate to say it again because, well, Obama and even Clinton are even more left-wing than Gore and Kerry.

So what's your point?

71 posted on 05/08/2008 12:34:02 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: KDD

“I for one am not buying into it.”

I’m not buying into it either.

But we need to have priorities in life, and my priority is preventing Barack Obama from becoming our 44th President.


72 posted on 05/08/2008 12:35:49 PM PDT by devere
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To: devere

“Vote against disaster.”

That’s why I refuse to vote for Clinton, Obama or McCain. They are all disasters.

If people continue to vote for the “lesser-of-two-evils” then they have guaranteed that they are going to get “evil”.


73 posted on 05/08/2008 12:36:59 PM PDT by El Gran Salseron ("Terisn" is my new favorite word. Thank you, Allegra.)
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To: dcwusmc
So a liberal RINO is better than supporting a Conservative/libertarian who might actually succeed at REDUCING the size of FedGov?

You are so kidding on so many levels, right? Right?

To "succeed" at doing anything within the federal government, Barr would first have to have one-one-millionth of a chance of being elected, which he does not.

Then even if he somehow got elected, he would have to have one-one-millionth of a chance of anyone in Congress of either party giving a rat's patooty about what he thinks as a president with absolutely no coat-tails and no party structure, which he does not.

74 posted on 05/08/2008 12:38:16 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: pnh102

If you’re asking that sincerely, I’d just remind you that while the Electoral College determines the winner, the popular vote is still important.

Even in dark blue states, votes matter because they effect the popular vote.


75 posted on 05/08/2008 12:40:26 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: Supercharged Merlin

If you’re right, we should be seeing a groundswell for Barr any minute now.

((crickets))((chirping))


76 posted on 05/08/2008 12:41:17 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: jmc813

No McGovern was the most liberal ever.

But Gore is just plain looney and has not had his feet touch the ground since he left the tobacco farm and zinc mine and Kerry is MA-style liberal..and that’s pretty liberal.


77 posted on 05/08/2008 12:41:21 PM PDT by rod1 (u)
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To: tueffelhunden

Mega Ditto. This conservative ex Navy, ex Texan will never vote for McCain. I think we need to burn down and rebuild the GOP. McCain as POTUS gets us Open Borders and more deals with Kennedy, Feingold, and Lieberman.


78 posted on 05/08/2008 12:42:59 PM PDT by kgrif_Salinas
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To: Tribune7

“And, say what you want, McCain did walk tall when it came to the recent attempt to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.”

Now, let’s see.....

Against the Fairness Doctrine.....

but against political free speech by limiting political donations?

What a study in contradiction!

And you want people to vote for this man?


79 posted on 05/08/2008 12:44:54 PM PDT by El Gran Salseron ("Terisn" is my new favorite word. Thank you, Allegra.)
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To: fightinJAG
And now it's accurate to say it again because, well, Obama and even Clinton are even more left-wing than Gore and Kerry. So what's your point?

The whole boy that cried wolf thing.

80 posted on 05/08/2008 12:45:46 PM PDT by jmc813 (Eek!)
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