Posted on 07/23/2008 9:46:18 AM PDT by FocusNexus
In fact, as much as he despised Clinton, Barr thinks President Bush is worse. "What George W. Bush has done to the fabric of our constitutional government, to separation of powers, to a government of limited powers is absolutely unforgivable," he said.
That prospect is greatest in Barr's home state of Georgia. Obama is already running ads targeting an untapped pool of African Americans and younger voters. State polls suggest Barr's single-digit following pulls mostly from McCain.
"If Barr can win 5 or 6 points of the total vote -- it's an if but it's conceivable -- then Obama could win Georgia," said Merle Black, who teaches political science at Emory University in Atlanta.
His vote to authorize the war? A mistake. The Patriot Act? Ditto. It was an excuse for unreasonable government spying. He has disowned the Defense of Marriage Act he championed, not because Jeri Barr is his third wife but because Libertarians don't believe in government telling people who to marry. (He says that is up to each state.)
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“Dang! Sounds just like John McCain!”
Yes. On this issue, Barr agrees with both the moderate Democrat John McCain, and the Marxist radical Obama.
Aren’t *all* the candidates pro-amnesty?? It’s shoddy to have no real choice; I hope I’m wrong, but I know I’m not.
I suspect that former Border Patrol officers Ramos and Compean would agree with Barr on this point.
As I’ve said many times before, they all suck.
This too sounds like Ramos and Compean, who truly learned that “compassionate conservatism” is something of a GWB oxymoron.
Well it worked. It did teach Republicans a lesson. It taught them to nomimate a RINO.
Right wingers fail to understand. When they go off to third parties they move the political center to the left. To win Republicans have to replace them with more voters from the left of the old center. That is how the center gets moved to the left. The Republican party when Punished by the right must move to the left in order to have a chance to win.
Can you imagine what would happen if a third party candidate ever did get elected president. NO party can win control of the Senate in one election. And the odds of putting up candidates to win a majority of house seats are very slim.
That would live the house and senate in control of Democrats and Republicans. Who only agree on one thing. They would have to destroy the third party and to do that they would have to destroy the third party president and vice president. I would bet they could find, with the help of the media, enough grounds to impeach him and his VP in less than two years.
This nation is a two Party system. If you don't like either party get active in one of them and change it. A third party is always counter productive to its own goals.
“This nation is a two Party system. If you don’t like either party get active in one of them and change it. A third party is always counter productive to its own goals.” Wise words, well and truly stated.
I believe Mr. Barr is trying to be pragmatic about this - you cant reason with the global warming crowd, and if you tell them they are idiots for believing in junk science they plug their ears and wont listen to another thing you say - However to achieve energy independence we need these people to work with us, and I believe this is what Mr. Barr was trying to accomplish. This statement of his - “I am, however, also aware that scientists differ on its causes, impact and remedies. I remain
firmly committed to free market solutions and innovations to address this issue; not tax-driven policies.” (remember McCain supports cap and trade) he said this when he was at the Al Gore event - Someone on the global warming hysteria bandwagon would not speak such hypocrisy - which is why I feel confident in continuing to support Mr. Barr
Where is the Republican Party that stood for limited government, personal responsibility, a strong national defense, and against being the world’s policeman? As recently as the 90’s Republicans railed against a foreign policy of “making the world safe for democracy”, (which is historically the Democrats foreign policy, ala Woodrow Wilson) when Bill Clinton was President and he took us to war in Bosnia and Kosovo, without U.N. approval I might add. Which reminds me, the United Nations is something the GOP used to believe we needed to get out of. - From its inception, the Republican Party advocated a humble foreign policy in line with our founding fathers recommendations, now, with John McCain as the leader and voice of the GOP, we are told to get behind his idea for a “League of Democracies” which sounds terrifyingly similar to Wilson and his Progressive Democrats “League of Nations” almost 100 years ago.
I would remind you that before Lincoln, the Republican party was a minor 3rd party - the Democrats and the Whigs ran the show. The Libertarian party has more integrity than the Republicans right now - the dirty laudry they have given us is stinking up the nation. That being said - I pray the GOP gets its act together.
The Republican Party was never a third party. As soon as they came into existence in 1854, they completely pushed the Whig party off the map and where the second most popular party in the country. In their first national election test in 1856, they came in a strong second, pushing the Know Nothing party down to third.
The problem is too many want to define 'humble' as non-existent. Of course, that definition generally always comes from the outside, mostly Libertarian party who have long ago stopped becoming anti-Statist and traded it for just plain anti-State.
If you think he made a free market argument, you are projecting your own thoughts, probably in subconscious hope that is what he meant.
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