Barr took votes but so didn’t Nader.
Losertarians are worse than useless.
To the best of my knowledge, Indiana hasn’t been decided yet and is in our favor.
Any theories about an Obama landslide are extremely delusional.
There were a 1/2 dozen states that were very close and about 1/2 dozen more that were within 10%, more than enough to get an electoral majority if we dont run another McCain.
Juan was a drag on the ticket.
The libertarians didn’t run a libertarian for President.
How about Republicans quite whining about third parties being spoilers and give the third party voters some incentive to vote for them (e.g. not doubling the size of government in eight years)?
Just noticed I misspelled Carolina in the title. My mind must be on Carolyn Kennedy, the once and future Princess of the enlightened and unwashed.
Who cares? If Barr stopped McCain from winning Virgina, Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Nevada, it would have made a difference.
If we had a conservative nominee it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. I don’t blame others for McCain failures.
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Bush won Indiana in 2004 by 20 points and McCain lost Indiana by less than a point in 2008.
Indiana swung 20 points to the Democrats in just four years.
That was not Bob Barr’s fault.
I admit that I don’t know who McCain would’ve nominated for the Supreme Court and other judicial positions, but I do know that such votes gave Obama free reign (deliberate misspelling) to put liberal activists in charge of the entire structure of our judicial system for generations to come. Perhaps the third party voters will figure this out when the right to bear arms is abolished, as well as all of the other rights that depended on the Second Amendment for support.
Votes belong to nobody but the individual. They must be EARNED. If the Republicans wanted these votes they should not have had McCain as their candidate. A would-be leader has to take full responsibility for not winning. I believe if McCain had stood up against the bail-out he might have won, or done better. He looked bad when he made ear marks his issue and then went along with the bail out which was loaded with them. Even if he voted for the first version, he could have stood up against the second one on grounds of the ear marks - could have had his cake and eaten it too.
You’re assuming all Barr votes would go to McCain. I don’t think you can make that assuption.
Some number would likely go to McCain; some would likely go to Obama. A larger number would probably undervote or stay home.
All in all, it’s not much more than a wash.
People need to put their energy into changing the party and not a 3rd party.
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
Barr kind of reminds me of Henry Waxman in the Bizarro world.
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.