Letters to the Editor
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Libertarians have a Convention?
Does anybody come?
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Umm... yay?
The most petty reaction I've had to the things that the Bush Administration has done is without doubt the resentment from their "policies" on the unitary executive, citizen surveillance, and so on, leading me to agree with Bob Barr on anything.
Still, it's nice to see that Battling Bob takes the matter of a President f*cking the people almost as seriously as shenanigans with an intern.
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My favorite Bob Barr moment...
...was in the Borat movie, when he believed he was eating cheese made from Borat's wife's breastmilk. Priceless!
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Contribute
Here's his website:
http://www.bobbarr2008.com/
I'm giving ol' Battlin' Bob $25. Bob will add to the festivities this fall.
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Sounds like the hand of Rove
I really don't see how Ron Paul supporters can embarrass McSame. Paul is a kook. McCain will be glad to say he's opposed by those young hippies. The press will say it means McSame is the front-runner (for Nov) if someone is trying to stop him. Ugh. Stupid crap again instead of the real policy stuff that matters to our country.
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Darn, wrong faction
I was really hoping for some big name to take up the fight for the religious right. Not only would it cause a bigger split in the party but the speeches would be more entertaining along the way.
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Libertarian Party Convention
Not only do the Libertarians have a convention, but in 2004 it was covered by C-SPAN, along with the conventions of the Green Party and the Constitution Party. Thank God for C-SPAN!
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Good times. Goooood times.
Bob Barr is one of the more mainstream Libertarian Candidates in a while, so that bodes well for trying to syphon off a few thousand votes from The Lunatic McCain. Probably not too much more than that since the RNM will ramp up the fear quotient, circle the wagons and bring the party in line against the Dems. Still every little bit helps.
Perhaps more interesting is this talk of clownshit crazy convention gaming by the Ron Paul contingent. My interest is not from a policy perspective since Paul's negatives far outweigh his positives in my mind.
Rather, I am intrigued by the possibility of heavy provocation on the part of Ron Paul's supporters mixing with the legendary powder keg temper of The Lunatic. If they truly hate McCain as much as they claim, they will try to provoke the kind of public meltdown that will cause the Repubs to doubt their choice.
I'm thinking some sort of nationally televised freak out where McCain starts using all sorts of racial epithets traditionally directed at the Vietcong in the general direction of Ron Paul. A good "I don't give a fuck about your Constitution" would do interesting things to the mathematics going into the big show.
Needle away Paulites!
Now we just need to get the Dems united in the wake of our own absurdist clusterfuck.
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Ron Paul supporters are going to game the GOP convention?
These are the same supporters who thought he could win a primary.
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One of my favorite Onion headlines of all time:
"Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department"
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What I want to know is...
...what happened to that Ralph Vader guy everybody was talking about a while back? Is he still running?
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Crossing my Fingers
Hey, if Nader can screw us again this way, let's share the pain with the GOP! Go Barr!
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I'm for this one
I won't vote for him.
But, I'm for it for three reasons.
First, it has real, true, entertainment value potential, including the possible ones cited above.
Second, although I really wish Barr had believed enough in privacy to stay out of other people's sex lives, it does remind people that the privacy rights some of us still value weren't a fable - Barr, to some extent, comes off as more rational than Paul because, rather than becoming a Republican after years of being a Libertarian (and being associated with publishing some of their crazier stuff), he has actually quit the Republican Party in disgust to become a Libertarian.
Also, it may draw some of the old-style Republicans who just aren't going to vote Democratic, no matter what (the people who actually believe it's more likely that the gov't is going to deny you a life-saving operation because you are "too old" as Barr says on his site, than the for-profit insurance companies are just going to to keep denying everyone as much care as possible, or just coverage, because they have stockholders and Wall Street to answer to) away from McCain. Can't really hurt.
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nice!
Run Bob Run!!!
what are the rules on foreign citizens donating to US Presidential campaigns? I'd toss crazy ol' Bob a double dixie just to keep things interesting.
(and incidentally I strongly believe in the concept of third parties...even if they're totally offbase from my beliefs.)
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Yeah, right, Libertarian
I was under the impression that libertarians (small-L) believed in leaving people alone, freedom almost bordering on anarchism. What is more a private matter than one's sexuality? However, wasn't Bob Barr the leader of the blue noses who impeached and tried to remove Bill Clinton because the man dared to have private, consensual relations with a woman not his wife?
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some Libertarian
this is the same Bob Barr who tried to name the whole country after Reagan whether we wanted to or not. I can never forgive him for forcing us to rename Washington National Airport after Reagan over the objections of nearly everyone in the airport's local jurisdiction.
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mhellman re:Nader
See "today's" Boondocks - actually from Oct 9 2000, but disturbingly contemporary:
http://www.mycomicspage.com/boondocks/2008/05/12/
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Barr for President?
So Bob Barr is now a civil libertarian? The same Bob Barr, who, as a member of Congress, tried to, uh, bar US service people from practicing the Wiccan faith?
Wonder what other inconsistencies are lurking beneath the political plastic surgery of the remade Mr. Barr.
Even so, a strong Libertarian campaign can only help the good guys in the general, so Run Bob, Run...!
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Oooooh, did I say "Vader"?
I really meant "Nadir."
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Barr, Paul & Gravel
All three of these guys are on the correct side of some issues - civil liberties, Iraq and Torture - that McCain really needs to be confronted about, often and loudly. (Of these issues, only Iraq seems to be important to the Democratic candidates, so far.)
Because of Barr's position on civil liberties, he can have my support as "spoiler" in relation to McCain. I'll even send money...