Libertarian Barr says McCain on 'farewell tour of America,' calls votes for him wasted

Source: By SHANNON McCAFFREY | Associated Press Writer

Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr appealed Wednesday for the support of Republican-leaning conservatives by declaring his Republican rival John McCain is going to lose the election.

"Sen. McCain will be spending the last two weeks before the election on his 'farewell tour' across America," Barr wrote in an e-mail message. "Sen. McCain's mixed and angry message, as well as his support of big-spending policies, have killed any chance McCain may have had to win this election."

The former Republican congressman from Georgia wrote that conservatives who want their vote to count should throw their support behind his longshot candidacy. ...

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-barr,0,3812738.story

carry out the libetarian agenda?

He is as rabid a repuke as any. This is all a show.

Bob Barr called bullshit on the "Clintons trashed the White House" stories that Bush/Rove spread in early 2001. So I'd have to disagree with your assessment. Not saying he's a saint, but he's no fucking neocon/theocon. He's paleocon, which is the most palatable kind of republican there is. Of course ipecac is more palatable than drano....

After all, he was smart enough to walk away from the Republican machine before it was fashionable.

Libertarians are nuts, but it's clearly a step up from being a Republican.

Could give Obama the edge in our 100% Diebold state.

We should stick to insulting repukliens, not ourselves. :)
Let us distinguish 'libertarian philosophy' from Libertarian Party.

Actually, libertarian philosophy is quite mainstream and cuts
a big swath through both parties. All three parties advocate
libertarian principles. The Constitution itself is fundamentally
a libertarian construct. It uses the methods of checks and balances
and also individual RIGHTS to limit government power and to advance
personal freedoms.

This means that, on some issues, people can find themselves agreeing
more with an opposing party's platform than their own. I myself am about
as far left/progressive a person as I know yet also with strong libertarian views.
It doesn't necessarily make me a Libertarian party member, I'm a democrat. Solid.
But you don't have to agree with everything or to hold a view strongly to find some merit in it.
Nor to speak up when you own party is about to do something that violates important
principles and the matter should be reconsidered.

So here is source of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
worth a read. you probably agree with parts of that. Including:


Thank you for the opportunity to bring this important subject up. Hey! :hi:

Education, a thirst for learning and understanding. Grant
this boon to every person: a wise and understanding heart.
It is what Solomon asked for, and was given.

With such boon it is soon realized that we are not doomed to stand inside
our skin all alone, that we have a brain, that we have each other, and
generations before us, that there are ideas that we can take, to consider,
to examine, to test, to accept or reject, that may help comprehend the world,
help us decide how we stand on subjects relevant to our day.

Yet to use a wise and understanding heart a person must trust, at least a little.
Trust cannot have been destroyed. Yet some people cannot trust. They cannot use
their brain, they cannot accept the ideas of others, for that is threatening.

Alas, poor Sarah. She has no idea. She has never even had a glimpse of the ocean
of knowledge all around her. Her eyes are sealed shut. Poor blind Sarah.
yet when she stumbles in the darkness holding a lighted match, knocking over
the petrol can in her confusion, I cannot pity her, for she endangers everyone.

Sorry if my ramblings make poor sense. Be glad you have what Sarah does not.
And in parting perhaps take away that that libertarian
thought is from the sea of 'philosophy', while Libertarian Party platforms
are from the sea of 'politics'. One is based on 'reasoning', the other on
on 'practicality'. They rarely mesh perfectly, but libertarian philosophy
is deeply embedded in the American culture, and a part of American politics
of every party. One might even say that, in America, we are all libertarians.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment.
Now go insult a repuklien. It will do us both good. :)

In the land of liberty, there is so much anti-Liberty. Maybe they simply don't realize liberty = libertarian?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: -in

Gets the votes he needs in Georgia to fuck it up for MaGoo. I say 401 EV's is the number

... we have a real shot at that Senate seat. Getting Chambliss out of there after what he did to Cleland would make my evening on November 4th.

Split the Repuke vote! :evilgrin:

He's not even a real Libertarian, so I'm not sure who is going to vote for him.

:rofl:

regarding the bailout. He questioned as to where was the Attorney General in all this? That being the one person never called on to investigate this fiasco.