Posted on 05/12/2008 7:51:01 AM PDT by SmithL
Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr is expected to announce that he's running for president as a Libertarian.
His candidacy would be a wild card in the White House race that many believe would hurt Republican Sen. John McCain.
Barr had scheduled a news conference Monday. He first must win the Libertarian nomination at the party's national convention that begins May 22. Party officials consider him a front-runner
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I do plan to vote the R’s down the ticket.
McCain has already made my vote irrellevent.
I am so angry with him.
.....McCain has already made my vote irrellevent....
So, you’re out of denial. The next step is acceptance. Rational thought will help decide the furure course.
Who will be better for the country? McCain or Obama?
The decision now should be a little more palatable. Should I choose agony and misery and maybe death, or should I choose McCain?
The only good thing Barr could contribute would be a barrage of anti-Obama attacks (doing the work McCain and the GOP won’t do...)
Amen to that.
Do you guys read what you post?
The more shrill and hyperbolic sound the more desperate you look.
It does get old hearing the same old scare rhetoric every single presidential election season. How about nominating someone people can vote for with enthusiasm instead of nominating someone you need to try to scare people into voting for?
I know, I know . . . it sounds crazy. But it just might work.
.....it sounds crazy. But it just might work......
I won’t argue with the point. The reality is that there are lots of folks who believe that McCain should be the nominee. They are in the majority and have prevailed.
I am not desperate, I am trying to assert rationality to our forum. I am trying to bring the facts of present reality to the discussion. The decision you want to be made is no longer possible. In the primary the majority has not chosen a candidate with our conservative views.
I suspect they have chosen a warrior above all other considerations.
Since when did the ACLU last stand on the conservative side? Apparently you haven’t seen what they’ve been up to in the last several years! They did stand on the conservative side on a couple of things in the past, but very, very few!
They’re on the far-left, homosexual rights, non-Christian, non-American side most of the time! Although Mr. Barr doesn’t go along with much of that, to his credit. I still like him for many things. Just not some things. I think he got into the race too late. F. Thompson didn’t win for that reason, either! How is B.Barr going to do any better?
I stand by comment, Barr is a medical marijuana supporting joke, a has been who will no more hurt McCain than Buchanan hurt Bush in 2000. Remember John Anderson, he was a Repub who ran as an independent in 1980, and Reagan swept Carter by 8 points. Hey Bob, bring it on bitch!
Barr didn’t on those things. He, along with Dick Armey,American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, the Free Congress Foundation, the Second Amendment Foundation, and other solidly conservative groups, worked with them on protecting the Fourth Amendment and other rights abused by the grossly misnamed Patriot Act and other such laws.
I don’t agree with him on everything either. But I sure agree with him on more than I agree with McCain or Obama on.
The only way he can do well is to go around the MSM and the Republican establishment. Direct mail, internet, phone chains, etc. He needs to get to the conservative groups and get their mail and phone lists. He needs to go to Richard Vigurie and get him on board with his lists, etc.
The Republican Party was itself a “third” party in 1854 when it was founded. In 1856 it ran John C. Fremont who was defeated. Just four years later, the Republicans defeated the Whigs, by running Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, running in a four-way race, won the electoral college and the presidency even though he wasn’t on the ballot in nine states and received less that 40% of the popular vote.
If Barr can attract enough votes show the displeased conservative voters there is a chance to win if they just vote their convictions, the Republicans will have to nominate a conservative in 2012 or go the way of the Wigs.
If he does nothing except get enough votes to show the Republican Party they can’t keep nominating liberals and getting conservative votes, he will have done a great service for the country.
thnx for the ping, I pinged the other thread cuz its on the front page
The war in Iraq is won and over, the question is how long are we going to stay and nation build. What really is at issue is if we should be policing the word with troops in over 100+ countries, providing for the defenses of other countries. It is not good policy and this is Ron Paul’s position.
Three reasons I will never vote for Bob Barr:
1. Six years ago, when we were trying to elect a great conservative, Bill Salier, in the U.S. Senate primary in Iowa, Barr came in and endorsed and campaigned for uber-RINO Greg Ganske.
2. Barr works for the communists at the ACLU.
3. Barr doesn’t support building a fence on our southern border.
Sorry Bob. Three strikes and yer out!
Spending $15 billion a month ($180 billion a year) to win an almost pointless war still doesn’t make sense—even if you are ‘winning.’ We could be energy independent in 5 years at that price and make Opec and the Middle East irrelevent. /sigh.
Then, I must not be very wise. Barr makes more sense than the other 3 yokels, and I’m changing my registration to Libertarian.
Oh please, you complain about the LP candidate but ignore the Green Candidate took far more votes from Al Gore than from Harry Brown took from Bush. Considering how far left Bush has gone on nation building, spending, etc why do you think the LP is probably going to do better this year than in the past? And McCain is going to be worse than Bush. At least with Bush you knew in 2004 you'd get conservative USSC justices. The RP is moving closer and closer to just being like Democrats were 5 years ago and Democrats are just becoming further Marxist. I'm done voting for RINO Republicans.
Yes because deficit spending $400 billion a year to finance a badly managed war coupled with 0 domestic energy policy (which enriches our enemies) is a far better foreign policy than the LP and CP. Please.
LOL!
As opposed to the slightly less socialist Republican?
Pointless war?
You mean the one where we haven’t had a domestic attack in 7 years? Including the Alaska pipeline?
Or the one that stopped the corrupt oil-for-food program?
Or the one that kept nuclear weapons out of Iraq’s hands and in all likelihood averted a far bigger war which would have otherwise sapped all domestic sources of oil?
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