Posted on 07/02/2008 2:04:13 PM PDT by mnehring
For conservatives unhappy with McCain as our candidate, I’ve heard a few mention Bob Barr as an alternative for their protest votes. Make sure you know who your voting for before you do so, and make sure if your protest is that of principle that you share the same principles with whom you pull the lever for. For some conservatives, Bob Barr’s teamwork with the ACLU to fight against the Patriot Act and the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program is enough to drop consideration. He has also sided with the ACLU on the immigration issue, opposing local law enforcement from helping to enforce immigration law.
However, for those that lean a little more towards the libertarian side, Alexander Brunk has a list of reasons to question Barr on these principles.
Certainly, it seems ironic that the man who was once congress’s greatest champion of the “War on Drugs” is now the leader of a fringe party devoted to opposing it. A man who rails against overspending in Washington himself voted for No Child Left Behind, which libertarians hate. A man who was one of the main movers and shakers in the impeachment trial of President Clinton, which most libertarians opposed. A man who voted for the Patriot Act, but has now spent the last five years speaking out against it.
Ok, I’ll just write in.......
“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...
I think you can say that Barr’s positions are ‘evolving,’ just like McCain’s. /s/
Maybe devolving is a better word to use for both of them.
Bob Barr would be our Ralph Nader or Ross Perot this year, but would give us worse than Bill Clinton!
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.
And that relates to this nutcase hypocrite Barr how...?
I guess the only option then is not voting at all.
I wonder how Bob Barr’s appearance in the Borat movie is going to work out for him.
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.
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
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.
Perot gave us Clinton but Bush gave us Perot when he dissed the Reagan Democrats concern with their jobs.
Barr is far from perfect, but I would take him over McCain/Obama any day.
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