Letters to the Editor
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Barr was one of the biggest problems in the FIRST PLACE
Remember his attack on Wiccans in the military?
His record is atrocious.
Google him and decide of you believe a word this toad says.
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loyalty is good, principles are good, admitting you were fooled or mistaken is good
it's all very complicated - that's why law books are the size of buses. as for his motivation, i think that "Christian in NYC" is right on, the GOP got too estranged from republicans - of any stripe. what is fascinating is how we are seeing right before our eyes the ocean liner change course. yes, the "world" wished it happened in the last election, but it didn't. it's happening now.
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A battle of inches
At this point I'm ready to welcome anyone who is moving forward. Yeah, he's got a checkered past, and I still don't buy the Libertarian "small gov't" concept, but at least this guy is committed to doing less evil. It's sad that our country has gotten to the point where we're grateful for people becoming even minimally enlightened, but right now I'm glad to embrace any ally against the threat of Dark Ages 2.0.
Also, I award a red star to Jeff_Smith for his well-written post. Somebody has too, since the Editors Choice stars seem to be handed out by random algorithm these days.
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Divisiveness gets us nowhere
I don't know Bob Barr from a hole in the ground, but any former Bushite who experiences an epiphany and becomes enlightened about the mephistophalean nature of the Bush Administration should be welcomed by all those stand for humans rights, liberty, and security. To pick at their past pecadellos or to whine about their current variances with political correctness is to fragment the movement that could extricate us from subjugation to the authoritarian globalist oligarchy that is the real power of darkness behind George Bush. Every convert to anti-neoconism should be celebrated.
Hooray for Bob Barr! Hooray for Ron Paul!
Resist globalist hegemony!
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Paranoia strikes deep...
Is this an attempt by a secret cabal to pull votes away from the Democrats in 2008 ala Nader? Anybody? Anybody?
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Every creeping thing that creeps
Change of heart? Change of skin, more like --- it happens seasonally.
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Some libertarian!
Unless I've missed this particular conversion experience, Bob Barr remains as totally opposed to legal abortion as when he was in office--despite the fact that his wife alleged in divorce papers that not only did she have an abortion with his knowledge and consent, he drove her to the clinic! (He said he did too object, so if she is telling the truth, he's a perjuror himself.) So this is a man who would have wanted the law to force his own wife to bear a child, and imprison the doctor who helped her out.
Um, what is libertarian about the state forcing over a million women a year to bear unwanted babies? and how does he square his commitment to limited government with the police powers necessary to enforce the abortion bans he supports?
If Barr has abandoned the Republicans, they truly are in trouble. But there's no need to award him the Nobel peace prize -- the man is still a stone reactionary and hypocrite.
Tougher questions, Salon, please!
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armchair quarterback
One the one hand its nice to hear card-carrying conservatives like Barr and Dick Armey criticizing an administration that has never really carried water for true conservative principles. On the other hand, I can't help wondering if these guys would say anything if they were still in elected positions. They wouldn't-because holding on to power is the only real principle they hold dear. Just look at McCain.
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Amen, Katha Pollitt!
That too! GAH. I cannot BELIEVE the interview didn't ask him about basic things like that.
I'm not one to usually say this, but: This is sloppy journalism. Seriously.
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You can see how liberals are failing even their own, maybe conservatives have a shot
Look at poor Elizabeth Edwards. Breast cancer cells are inside her bones, stimulating the osteoclasts that break down bone tissue, and suppressing the osteoblasts that build up bone tissue.
Meanwhile, there is a widely known substance that scientists have recently found out suppresses the proliferation of osteoclasts and promotes the activity of osteoblasts -- but the public doesn't know what it is -- because we can't talk about it.
We can't even talk about it at Salon, because even Salon is now ruled by fear. Fear that talking about this subject will make the Democrats look like a bunch of stoned losers.
This is a pathetic country, the Democrats are a pathetic political party, and Salon has become a major enabler of it all.
But we can't talk about it. No, this is a subject far too dangerous to even talk about.
Forget about the science. There's plenty of science.
But guess what people -- all this outrage that Salon editor vented over Republicans making war on science -- it was pure 100% political bullshit.
You want to see devotion to science?
Scientists who work on this subject that we can't even talk about, that we're not even allowed to talk about, not even when Democrats are suffering horribly and might find relief from their horrible suffering --
those are the people who are devoted to science.
Democrats and Salon editors are only devoted to their quest for political power.
If somebody's horrible suffering gets in the way of that quest for power -- well, fuck them. Let them live in misery! Who the hell cares?
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one million unwanted children?
(even after they are born, i suppose) out of four million? seems made up to me. but whatever the true figures are, it's the first i've heard (outside of Anne Lamott) of abortion seen as a positive *good*. anti-life, truly, not just pro-choice.
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David Sugarman
It's not about "anti-life" or abortion as a positive. It's about FORCED PREGNANCY. FORCING a woman to bear a child. No one is "pro-abortion." I for one, am "anti-forced-pregnancy."
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are you saying, fotini901
that you believe one out of four pregnancies in america are *forced*?
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OK... so which is it?
Bob Barr joins the growing ranks of Republican politicians who leave office and then denounce (P)resident Bush and his policies for not passing the Conservative litmus test. Please! Neither Bush nor his "big government" policies nor Bob Barr's intrusive anti-marijuana and pro-marriage bills had anything in common with Conservatism. Barry Goldwater once said that if someone wants to grow a weed in their backyard and smoke it in their livingroom, it's none of the Government's damn business. Compare this to the "War on Drugs" that is little more than a pander to the prison industry and to the rural voters whose towns are the sites for these warehouses.
The Republican party has used the word "conservative" because their focus groups told them that the majority of people react warmly to it. They then wrap their anything-but-conservative spending, government expansion, corporate welfare, military skimping bills in that mantle and watch as their loyal followers rally 'round. That the ranks of their believers is thinning is good news for the truth.