Barr is worse than the GOP-E, he’s a constant flip flopper and traitor to the party. I don’t think anyone supports him other than the Paulbot crowd and longtime hardcore Barr fans. The Tea party AND establishment are both for Loudermilk.
I can’t imagine why the heck ANYONE would support Barr, unless they’re longtime fans from the Clinton impeachment era and decided Barr is entitled to lifetime support because of it.
Hard-core Libertarians weren’t even happy with Barr as the LP nominee in 2008 and admitted they were only voting for him so their party could get ballot access. Once he came crawling back to the GOP and endorsed Romney, it pretty much confirmed what they felt all along about Barr being an opportunity.
The Paulbots hate anyone not named Ron Paul and those who worship Paul like them. Barr laughably tried to reinvent himself as a Paulbot AFTER leaving Congress (I guess he thought we’d all get amnesia and forget he had nothing in common with Paul when they served together). Paul, of course, got so sick of Barr’s overtures to him that he endorsed the Constitution Party candidate in 2008 just to spite Barr (and openly said so at the time!)
Conservatives, of course, figured out Barr turned traitor years ago. It was one thing after another... selling his soul to the ACLU, denouncing his support for the Defense of Marrige Act, claiming Bush was worse than Clinton, sucking up to Al Gore’s global warming scheme, endorsing Holder for A.G. to spit in the face of his former supporters, etc., etc. I don’t know a single conservative who trusts Barr now that he came crawling back to the GOP.
I’d guess most of Barr’s “support” is simply from low information voters who just have no clue about his record or background, and made their decision because “the name sound familiar” and Barr sent them a mailing claiming to be a Reaganite.