Posted on 11/10/2008 12:33:31 PM PST by BlueStateBlues
If Barr's votes had gone to Palin and her running mate they would have won North Carolina and Indiana. North Carolina: Obama 49.9%, Palin 49.5%, Barr 0.6$ Indiana Obama 49.9%, Palin 49%, Barr 1.1% This would have been more important in a closer election, but it caught my interest when I looked the figures up.
dream on. barr voters weren’t about to vote for McCain - at least not en mass enough to tip the election
The Republican party is a joke and they got what they deserved.
Oh, but they’ll be right here complaining as big as ever.
No, but the GOP doesn't exactly get a gold star either, considering that it was largely content with the status quo when it dominated both houses of Congress and the Presidency. I don't even remember the GOP making a good faith effort at serious economic reform when it was in charge. The closest it got was in 2004 when the President sent up a social security privatization trial balloon that his own party quickly shot down.
This sounds a lot like what many conservatives are pushing for. A Republican Party with a 'pure' ideology that won't get enough votes to actually win anything, but will make the *feel* good.
How about admitting that the Republican Party got Obama elected?
We do not have a two-party system?
Sorry, but this is the type of functional ignorance that loses election because it leads people to waste their votes.
as a conservative, I just want to say I DON’T WANT LIBERTARIANS IN MY PARTY....JUST STAY AWAY....I DO NOT CARE TO APPEASE YOUR ‘APETITES” WHATEVER THEY MAY BE AND YOUR NATURAL “ANYTHING GOES” ATTITUDE SHOULD BE WITH THE RAT PARTY, SO PLEASE JUST GO!
It is like a football game. Get over it.
Third Party Losers are like fans who go to the Super Bowl between the Giants and the Patriots and, when asked who they are rooting for, they say, “The Ravens.”
Yeah, you *can* do that.
Yes, indeed. Let's run articulate, vigorous, committed conservatives on the Republican ticket. John McCain is an honorable man, but a lukewarm conservative (by voting record) and a poor spokesman for anything.
We can start with the 4th amendment.
Why are you focused on something as immature and petty as payback to some political party?
Do you think that OUR COUNTRY “got what it deserved” in the election of a Marxist?
Libertarianism is not about “anything goes.” It’s about not using force to get what you want. Conservatives are inconsistent when they complain how the liberals try to use the state apparatus to force their wills onto people, but then turn around and do the same thing. Just like charity to the poor must be voluntary rather than forced by the State, so must moral living. Ronald Reagan said that libertarianism is the heart and soul of conservatism.
Second Amendment? Property Rights? Free Speech? Freedom OF Religion? Smaller more Constitutional government? Sane taxation instead of this regressive tax schema?
You really wanna jettison all that from the GOP like the RINO's are trying to do?
Think you'll win dog catcher without those planks in the Party?
As a conservative I did not like McCain. ...yup.
I voted for Ron Paul in the primary as a protest vote against him ...same here, Primary was already decided. I voted Alan Keyes as a protest, and because I honestly like the guy.
I was seriously looking at third party candidates until McCain chose Sarah ....yup.
I think that there were others who voted third party because they didn’t like McCain at all and Sarah wasn’t enough to save their votes. ...yup. I also think that there were a lot of conservatives who just stayed home. The last vote totals I saw (granted, it was a week ago and they weren't close to final....) kind of reinforce that.
Exactly, EXACTLY what right did I lose? Don’t be wishy- washy, dont’ be abstract, but WHERE did I lose the right to life, liberty or property?
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Kelo vs. City of New London comes to mind, in response to your question about the right you may have lost.
apparently your private property may not actually be yours, if the government wants it and thinks another owner might provide them with better income.
It was small “dominating” in that at no time did we have a filibuster proof congress.
John McCain is a genuine American hero and patriot and will do more for this nation than anyone I have ever known.
That said, John McCain was a disgrace as a campaigner. He should have never been the GOP standard bearer. A chimpanzee could read a teleprompter than McCain. He mumbled, went off message, demonstrated lockjaw of the brain, and could barely string 3 coherent sentences together, especially on the economy. All this in a 30-second sound bite television age. Small wonder we lost.
With Barr being for amnesty, anti war, legalige drugs,
and 9/11 an inside job it tells you there are liberals
on FR to divide Republicans.
These third party loons have the same views as Obama, no wonder they wanted him to win.
John McCain introduced Sarah Palin to the American people. That alone was a great service to the Country, for which I am grateful.
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