Barr Votes Would Have Given GOP Wins in North Carolin and Indiana

[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.

[fightinJAG]

There are no excuses for anyone who refused to vote to defeat Obama.

Period.

[geo40xyz]

Yes, the libertarian are a wonderful group.. NOT

[Evie Munchkin]

As a conservative I did not like McCain. I voted for Ron Paul in the primary as a protest vote against him (Oregon was one of the last states to have primaries so I didn’t have much choice). I was seriously looking at third party candidates until McCain chose Sarah. 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.

The GOP needs to run conservatives in the next two elections.

[HereInTheHeartland]

People need to put their energy into changing the party and not a 3rd party.

[fightinJAG]

Anyone who see McCain’s “failures” as an obstacle to voting for him in order to defeat Obama is enormously shortsighted.

[CautiouslyHopeful]

The point is it’s the responsibility of the GOP to draw people in with true small government policies, not the responsibility of the people to continuously vote for the lesser of two evils. You can either try to badger third-party voters into voting for the party, or you can retake the party itself.

[Republic of Texas]

Apparently though, plenty of excuses for the GOP.

[fightinJAG]

Garbage.

If you help elect a Marxist, you’re responsible for that act.

Period.

[SoCalPol]

Not only the Third party votes but those who sat at home.
total the above and you wonder what could have been.

McCain was not my first choice but voted for him rather than the Marxist Obama.

When Obama puts through the Fairness doc., closes Gitmo, and his other distructive agenda, all the third party
and write in loones on FR need not complain as there were two choices and they enabled Obama

[IronKros]

We do not have to be a two party system.
The republican candidate was horrible.
The republicans lost.

Coulter had a pretty good write-up about why no one wanted to vote for McCain.

We have lost many rights under President Bush.
Now let us see how the new "rulers" will use their new found powers over the populace.

[CautiouslyHopeful]

We are never going to win with that kind of attitude. Never.

[montomike]

Barr kind of reminds me of Henry Waxman in the Bizarro world.

[Kitanis]

"No, they'll whine about Obama in time. That's all Losertarians ever do -- complain about how bad everyone else is. They are like spoiled kids who throw a fit every time things don't go 100% their way, which is pretty much constantly."
And that differs from the Republicans how?
I noticed in my states Voting guide we had Six people on the ticket running for President.. Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Constitution, Pacific Green, and Peace parties. But all the Republicans have doing is complaining about one of their Ex-own (Barr was a Republican and was the guy who pushed impeachement of Clinton) running on the Libertarian ticket.
The way the Democrats and the Republicans want it is like a football game, 2 teams and thats it. I am so tired of it all..I am still a conservative at heart.. but I just sent in my registration for voting as Non-Affiliated with any party.

[AbeKrieger]

Blaming other candidates for failure is just pathetic. Next time, either run a stronger candidate or run a smarter campaign.

Let the third parties run. We can blame Clinton on Perot just like the libs can blame Bush on Nader. And everyone in Florida blames everything on some guy named “Chad Buchanan”. All pointless.

[enduserindy]

Yeah that’s a good, plan - blame everyone else for the Rhino’s loss. That is a sure way to win in 2012.

[Sir Gawain]

Too bad the GOP didn’t field a conservative in this election to run with Palin.

[Safetgiver]

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? Maybe privacy (?) [not enumerated}, right to a speedy trial? (only for citizens accused of a crime, not war crimes). Where are you coming from?

[Dead Corpse]

Curious, the GOP didn't run a conservative either but tried to band-aid this lack with a real conservative VP pick. Liberals ran a liberal and won...

Lesson to be learned: If you say you are a conservative party, run a conservative to get more votes.

Lesson GOP seems to leaning to: We didn't run far ENOUGH Leftward. It's everyone else's fault that we couldn't get enough of the Party faithful to show up.

[Cheetahcat]

Not a criticism of Barr, just more information about the 2008 voting patterns

I will criticize him not a chance in Hell!! But still the goofball pulls the tried and true Perot on us helping to put the MSM anointed hate mongers in the white house!

[Dead Corpse]

Run 3rd, 4th, and 5th party candidates run too. It’ll siphon off the kook vote from both sides. Ballot access laws are a travesty all around the Country and look more rigged with every passing election cycle.