Posted on 06/07/2008 6:46:23 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper
Ousted Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., is heading over to the American Civil Liberties Union to work on informational and data privacy issues, the organization announced Monday.
The firebrand conservative -- a gun rights advocate, anti-gay rights activist and prosecutor in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton -- told Fox News on Tuesday that the collaboration is not as strange as it might appear at first blush.
"We have actually worked very closely with conservative groups and with the ACLU on a number of issues over the last few years, very successfully in stopping some of the government snooping programs," Barr said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Joining the Anti-Christ Libertines Union, huh? He (and Buchanan as well) have gone over to the darkside.
Well, you are right. It is 2002, and it’s a retread.
But was that all that long ago? It has been evident to the dullest eye since at least the 1980s that the ACLU is more interested in supporting abortion and atheism than individual rights and freedoms.
They might take on a token Nazi or two as clients, just to show that they support constitutional rights for everyone, even the worst of us. But I don’t notice them coming to the rescue of parents who want their kids to get a decent moral education in our public schools, or pro-lifers arrested for praying on public sidewalks and beaten by the police in the process.
No one who claims to be for family or life could POSSIBLY sit down with the ACLU. Maybe Barr has some explanation. Maybe he thought he could convince them to change their ways. But I haven’t heard it, and it doesn’t seem to be very evident here in this article.
How so?
In early 2002, McCain also teamed up with Ted Kennedy and John Edwards on an HMO reform bill that Bush wanted stopped. A few months later, McCain aligned himself with Greenpeace against Bush and blasted Republicans for not endorsing the Kyoto protocol. Then in May of that year, McCain decided that the Democrats were right about gun shows, and teamed up with Lieberman to increase federal regulations at said shows. John McCain's legislation calling for federalization of airport security also came into effect in 2002.
A few days later, McCain was one of two "Republicans" in the senate who team up with the Democrats and vote against the Bush tax cuts.
Let us all reflect on 2002.
“He really is giving black Republicans a bad name”.
Is Bob Barr Black?
If Buchanan is going to hell he’ll fight on the ice!
This is old news. Let's just move on!
[snicker]
If McCain had worked for the ACLU in the past, the Libertarians flooding these Barr threads ad nauseum would be all over the Senator like off-white on wild rice.
Leni
Barr to Join ACLU....another a-hole looking for his second 15 minutes!!!
You make the understandable mistake of assuming that most Freepers are conservative as opposed to knee-jerk reactionaries. If Obama proposed cutting the top tax rate, a non-trivial number of Freepers would scream for tax hikes on the rich.
You should take advantage of this. I have SO much fun messing with my radical liberal acquaintances who act the same exact way. It's very funny watching them take positions diametrically opposed to other positions of theirs; the most important thing is ensuring that you never agree on anything with someone branded with the wrong political label.
Those statements are from the Glenn Beck interview with Barr. You can find it on YouTube.
Barr's close association with the ACLU communists continued on for years after this article, and to my knowledge exists to this day. And he wasn't just "a member." He was on their payroll.
And I'm no "McCain apologist." [see tagline]
My first bad experience with Barr was when he came into my home state six years ago and endorsed uber-RINO Greg Ganske over conservative Bill Salier in the US Senate primary.
Barr is whacked. He doesn't think we need a fence on the border, and that the recent CA gay "marriage" decision was "the way it's supposed to work."
Feh...
Anti Christian Lawyers United = ACLU
Better dead than ACLU.
Bob Barr is not black although he looks a lot like Rev Wright.
I am far to the right and far to the left. I dont like McCain’s views on immigration and the environment and energy policy. But I dont like how he’s a bit too socially to the right for me.
Bob Baar is just right as a protest vote.
Barr claims to be pro-life, and the ACLU is strongly pro-death.
Come to think of it, the Libertarian Party platform is pro-abortion.
I will NOT be voting for Barr, to say the least.
“No one who claims to be for family or life could POSSIBLY sit down with the ACLU.”
Sure they can. If I honestly thought that sitting down with the ACLU would work to end infanticide, I’d sit down with them in a New York second.
“Maybe Barr has some explanation. Maybe he thought he could convince them to change their ways. But I haven’t heard it, and it doesn’t seem to be very evident here in this article.”
If he had an alterior motive, do you really think he’d be able to comment on it?
“It’s very funny watching them take positions diametrically opposed to other positions of theirs; the most important thing is ensuring that you never agree on anything with someone branded with the wrong political label.”
Shortly after I started posting FR in 2004, I came to the conclusion that I was more conservative than many of the people posting here. I found that funny, given that at the time I was an open and notorious Democrat.
I still find the rhetorical pretzels that some FReepers bend themselves into ironic to say the least. You could put a GOP label on a dinner plate and they would go onto explain how life as we know it would end if we didn’t vote for the dinner plate.
It’s kind of like “Animal Farm.” GOP good, anything else baaaaaaaad.
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