“Selective? When posting Fox News articles they have to be excerpted. I posted the first several paragraphs of the article. Nothing selective about it.”
Yes, selective. You had the choice of what portions of the article to excerpt. You chose those that would tend to most impugn the reputation of the individual in question.
“The point is that Barr has worked with a anti-American communist oriented institution instead of working his issues through conservative organizations.”
So what? So long as a conservative issue and agenda are being forwarded, and that’s what appears to have happened here, who cares? Politics makes very strange bedfellows at times.
“The knee-jerk support for Bob Barr is amazing.”
I’m not a Barr supporter per se. My top 5 choices didn’t make it to the ballot. I might vote for him as the best amongst bad choices, but that’s about as deep as my “support” goes.
I will say this, the knee jerk reaction of those who see conservative votes as a GOP entitlement is something to behold.
When I think of he ACLU I think of homosexuals and abortionists... pro Terrorists... nice things like that :)
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.