- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Although I agree that factions of the left and right can indeed be strange bedfellows when it comes to Constitutional issues, I'm not inclined to believe or trust much that Barr says or does.
I'm not saying that this changes much one way or the other, but for the record, Barr:
- Authored and sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act.
- Was a longtime supporter of the "war on drugs".
- Was a zealous advocate of Bill Clinton's impeachment.
- Voted for the Iraq War.
- Reinvented himself as a libertarian only after he was defeated in a 2002 reelection bid for his House seat.
Regardless of what he's saying now, that's not exactly the track record of someone who's been consistently libertarian or free-thinking.
By all means, let's make use of Barr in his new incarnation. But it's a fair reading of his career to say that he's little more than just another opportunistic politician.
