Other than the borders thing, regarding which Kerry is worse, what we have here is a guy in the pay of the ACLU. The guy is whining about the Patriot Act in general, without one word about foreign policy or terrorists, and their plans for the US. Pathetic, but then I never supported Barr ever. I had his number early on.
Poor Bob could not resist drinking the ACLU Kool Aid.
He is correct on most points. There is almost no talk nowadays about the proper role of the federal governmet...every role is proper for the feds. Very few, except commited conservatives and libertarians, ask if Congress has the authority to pass the program du jour.
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Okay sure Bob go ahead and that is going to accomplish what? Oh year a Kerry win - that would really help the Homeland Security you want. Kerry has already said he is for amnesty for all illegal aliens. Then he changes the Patriot Act, giving us less safeguards again. He is proposing 2.5 trillion is additional spending. Yeah Bob that will be much better than Bush.
What a twit. I always thought he looked like one of those kids who always asked the teacher to give extra homework and whose books you couldn't resist knocking out from under his arm. Now he's behaving like one.
His argument about the economy Bush inherited is disengenuous. It ignores the fact that 9/11 and the bursting of the dotcom bubble dramatically reduced federal revenues. It also ignores that the wonderful Clinton economy was largely an ilusion which was bound to collapse on its own eventually.
Simply put, America's very existence is on the line and Barr wants it allways to be about him.
If Barr can look at Kerry and then say the choice isn't clear he is from some other planet. In my opinion there are only two major issues right now, the war on terrorism and taxes. I may not agree on everything Bush does or says, but on those two issues he is absolutely the right man at the right time.
I may not agree with the President on fiscal issues, and want less spending, but I BLAME it on the congress. THEY are putting the spending in the bills and holding them hostage to their whims and districts for more money. In good conscious while we are at war with our military in harms' way YOU would not want such a bill vetoed for a 'principle' So, make your choice, keeping in mind you cannot say I didn't vote so it's not my fault. We have been attacked. Remember 9-11? Remember people having to choose between burning alive or jumping? YOU have that responsibility to vote. And, look at the better side. If you work and elect enough Republicans to have a majority grrrrr [60] in the Senate YOU can stop all these pig spenders holding necessary bills hostage to their whims.
I keep hearing about these rock-ribbed conservatives willing to refuse to vote this time because Bush isn't sufficiently ideologically pure, but I never seem to meet any of them. These mythical purist Libertarians aside, real-life conservatives know that this election is about the war, and it isn't about anything else.
I'll be voting for Gee Dubya, but I'll hold my nose whilst doing it.
There are only two viable winners in November: Bush or sKerry. There is NO question that sKerry is BY FAR the worst of the two.
It is a shame that the two parties have stacked the deck so heavily against a third party, because neither is doing what is best for all Americans.
There are problems with Bush, but not one of these would be solved by Kerry. They *might* be solved by a second Bush term.
For example:
1. We should have followed through in Fallujah
2. We should have ceased negotiation with Al-Sadr the first time he broke his word
3. We should go after Osama wherever he is, Pakistan shouldn't be off limits
Kerry will just surrender all over the world, he has the sleaze of Bill Clinton coupled with the loser nature of Carter and Dukakis.
My wife worries about the important one, as yet unscheduled.
I find myself reminding her that that one will only be seen from the waist down.
BBarr let us down during the Waco hearings. He came on like the prosecutor and then melted away leaving the show to Zoftgren et al.
Barr is insincere...
He knows that the Congress still controls much of the spending.
These brownshirts certainly are bitter after they've been exposed.