Posted on 09/16/2008 4:43:54 PM PDT by pissant
Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr’s campaign filed suit Tuesday seeking to remove Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama from the ballot in Texas, alleging that the two major candidates missed the deadline for officially filing to be on the ballot.
The lawsuit by the former Republican congressman from Georgia claims that neither McCain nor Obama met the requirement of Texas law that all candidates provide “written certification” of their nomination “before 5 p.m. on the 70th day before election day” because neither had been formally nominated by their respective parties in time.
That would have been Aug. 25. Obama did not accept his party’s nomination until Aug. 28, McCain his on Sept. 4.
The lawsuit states: “The hubris of the major parties has risen to such a level that they do not believe that the election laws of the State of Texas apply to them.”
Pat Dixon, chairman of the Texas Libertarian Party, issued a statement saying, “Libertarian principles require personal responsibility for your acts and failures. Obama and McCain failed to meet the deadlines. They must follow the law like everyone else.”
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Link?
Probably not. Rules are made for the other guys, not for the Republican/Democrat duopoly.
Badabing.
Barr worked for the ACLU, and he has learned their tactics.
How do you figure? I don't like Barr. I hate the fact that he worked for the communists at the ACLU. But enforcing the rule of law hardly seems like an ACLU-like thing to do.
This isn't the 'rule of law' this is some legal technicality that the ACLU thrives on.
The Libertarians need to win a contested election fairly, not by appealing to the courts to enforce some arcane law.
“Some arcane law”? LOL...
These are the rules all of the candidates, campaigns and parties are supposed to be bound by.
These rules abound all across America, in a million forms, and they are enforced rigidly against everyone but the Republicans and the Democrats, believe me. Not only that, but the rules for everybody else are overwhelmingly much tougher for those who are not the parties in power.
agreed!
Obama stands about the same chance of Barr of winning in Texas. If they both get DQed, Texas' electoral votes will not go to McCain. McCain has a bigger hill to climb to get to 270. It literally could throw the election into the House of Representatives.
Remember, it's one vote per state delegation under the Constitution and includes the Senate in the process. It would be a battle royal we haven't seen since the first days of the Republic.
This is simply false, EV!
From the XII Amendment to the Constitution:
'The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed'
What I can’t understand is why is he protesting for removing them from the Texas ballot, when he is from Georgia? Good grief, is he going to pull this in every state? I wonder who the Republicans and Democrats going to vote for if he succeeds at this! (I don’t think he will)But how would he benefit from doing this? I wonder if he realizes that he would be responsible for taking the right to vote away from a lot of people. That is, unless they can write the names in, I guess.
Uh, Barr USED to be the leader in opposing same-sex marriage. He personally authored and sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. He got the LP nomination by comdemning the act and crisscrossing the country demanding it's repeal.
Uh, Barr USED to be one of the "worst drug warriors in Congress" (to quote his new party in 2002), reflecting his 20+ career experience as an Anti-Drug Coordinator for the Department of Justice and heading the Speaker's Task Force for a Drug-Free America. He is now headlining fundraisers booming "vote for Bob Barr if you want to end the war on drugs"
Uh, Barr USED to be one of the most outspoken opponents of abortion, giving speech after speech on the house floor condemning legal abortion as murder and hailing the human life amendment. He now says absolutely nothing about the issue, except the federal government should not interfere with the status quo. And his ex-wife says the "pro-life" Bob Barr personally drove her to the clinic and paid for her to abort their third child.
I have no doubt former "NRA leader" Barr wouldn't hestitate a second to become a paid spokesman for the Brandy Campaign for Gun Control if it could somehow advance his presidentials prospects with the Losertarian Party.
Seems Barr has proven he's about as "principled" as Jim Bakker, regardless of what he "used to" do before he officially lost his mind.
Wrong answer! Barr is an idiot for not knowing that the DNC + GOP DID file the correct paperwork. An IDIOT led around by the nose by more idiots.
Because, new FRiend, the PARTIES have been on the ballot since the dawn of time - it is just the PARTIES candidates that were not yet known by the filing date. Look for this to go nowhere.
Barr has become completely unhinged since he was gerrymandered out of his congressional seat by the Rat-controlled GA legislature.
What the Libertarians need to do is actually win a contested election instead of looking for legal loopholes.
Nice contradiction there. First, you call the ballot access laws 'unfair', although, in my opinion, they are fairly straight forward- however, then you say they are using ballot access laws to deny choice- yet, the voters chose and in many states Barr can't get enough voters to choose him so he attempts to finagle the legal system to deny voters the choice of the candidates they wanted in the primary all because he is angry the voters didn't choose him.. he is a pitiful, small man.
Of course he’s lost his mind. He actually expects the law to mean something to the ruling class. Good to know so many freepers no longer believe in the rule of law. It’s not like they keep the filing deadlines a secret or anything.
btw, I was referring to Barr’s contradiction.. I reread that and it sounded like I was attacking you, I wasn’t.
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