Exactly. People like Bob Barr need to grow up. No one is ever going to agree with any politician 100% of the time, or even anything close to 100%. When disagreements happen, grownups don't pick up their marbles and go home, or write snippy and petulant essays like this one during the heat of an election campaign, an article which may be used as campaign propaganda by the Kerry campaign. If Barr is going to try to stab Bush in the back, at least he should have the guts to admit that he is really a kool-aid chugging Libertarian and not a Republican.
I agree that no one will agree 100% with a candidate. But there is such a thing as letting an issue, like expanding government, get out of control due to neglect.
It seems then that we have children in office on both sides of the aisle.
If they wish to write this stuff and disagree with their party, that's fine with me. Just don't expect me to give their opinions more weight because they're from the other party. That proves nothing to me.