Why Bob Barr Is Not an Alternative

Stop the ACLU ^

[jrooney]

No thanks Barr. Tangoing with the ACLU makes you unelectable on this side of the aisle.

[Sybeck1]

Ok, I’ll just write in.......

[mgstarr]

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Some old naive dead guy apparently wrote that...

[FFranco]

I think you can say that Barr’s positions are ‘evolving,’ just like McCain’s. /s/

[mnehring]

Maybe devolving is a better word to use for both of them.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bob Barr would be our Ralph Nader or Ross Perot this year, but would give us worse than Bill Clinton!

[mnehring]

That dead old naive guy also said “Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

Both have about the same relevance in this thread.

[DLfromthedesert]

And that relates to this nutcase hypocrite Barr how...?

[microgood]

I guess the only option then is not voting at all.

[mnehring]

Barr is a non factor, unlike Nader or Perot. Both of those pulled almost exclusively from one side or the the other. Barr seems to have factions from both the left and the right, so you would have a wash with him. The other third party nuts we have this go around are really non factors. Baldwin is so nutty he will be lucky to get 1/10th of a percent. The Greens have no money this year as most of their minions seem to be falling in behind Obama.

[mnehring]

Not voting is never an option. All our choices stink this year, especially the third party choices. BUT, let's get real, we are dealing with politicians, by definition, it is always the lesser of two evils. I will be voting against the worst of the two and I'm not ashamed, especially the more we learn about Obama and how he has been running his campaign.

[wideminded]

I wonder how Bob Barr’s appearance in the Borat movie is going to work out for him.

[mgstarr]

Actually the quote was about wine but no matter.

I don’t support Barr but I find elements of the Patriot Act and FISA to be Orwellian and terryfying in the hands of a Democrat president. From that standpoint the first Franklin quote is entirely relevant.

[microgood]

Not voting is never an option. All our choices stink this year, especially the third party choices. BUT, let's get real, we are dealing with politicians, by definition, it is always the lesser of two evils.

Since I live in a dark blue state (Washington), which will go to Obama, not voting is a real choice. Certainly voting for McCain is a waste, so why not vote third party and send a message? In states like Montana and Idaho the libertarian vote is increasing substantially and it may someday send a message to one or the other party that freedom does matter to people.

[mnehring]

OMG, I completely forgot about that. IF Barr was a factor, any of his opponents could just run that clip and it would be over for him.

http://www.chbn.com/Clip.aspx?key=8BF2D6BFC8CACD0C

[LiberConservative]

I will probably change my screen name. I officially renounced the Libertarian party a few weeks ago after they nominated Barr. They have consistently been the only real party that had a snowballs chance in hell of taking on the ‘Rat/’Publican establishment and blow it every election with wackos or bores. This year they committed political blaspheme and heresy by nominating Barr. I'm done with them.

[alloysteel]

Can’t stand McCain but don’t want to help Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, either.

Study the field. Whoever is over to the left of Barack, be it Ralph Nader or any of a number of other really fever-swamp left winger radicals, select one and give him (or her) your wholehearted endorsement. Take no halfway measures here. The goal is to deprive Obama of at least as much support as is being deprived of John McCain.

To vote for Bob Barr as a protest against McCain, is to essentially GIVE one-half a vote to Obama. But if the shift is made to vote the other side of the spectrum (in just this one race, for the Presidency), this destroys a little bit of the plurality that Obama would pick up, and deprives them both of half a vote.

Of course, you may still split the rest of your ticket for the INDIVIDUAL candidate whom you consider best for the job at hand. Sometimes, it won’t be the Republican.

[ex-snook]

Perot gave us Clinton but Bush gave us Perot when he dissed the Reagan Democrats concern with their jobs.

[PastorTony]

Barr is far from perfect, but I would take him over McCain/Obama any day.