GOP Fears the Barr

Excellent news. Its about time these authoritarian scumbags get the same amount of fear they like to project onto others.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080622/ap_on_el_pr/bob_barr

Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 15 minutes ago

ATLANTA - A fiery former GOP congressman who gained national prominence for doggedly pursuing impeachment of President Clinton has some Republicans worried he'll play spoiler in a tight presidential contest.
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Bob Barr's Libertarian Party bid for the White House is the longest of long shots, but political experts say he may be able to exploit the unease some die-hard conservatives still feel about Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee-in-waiting. Combined with the surge in turnout among Democrats during the primaries and a difficult political climate for Republicans, they see what could be a recipe for trouble for the GOP.

"Bob could be the Ralph Nader of 2008," said Dan Schnur, a GOP consultant in California who worked on McCain's 2000 campaign but is not involved in this year's contest. Consumer advocate Nader is the third-party candidate many Democrats blame for helping George W. Bush narrowly win in 2000.

Rep. John Linder, a Republican who defeated Barr in 2002 after Georgia's Democratic-controlled Legislature redrew congressional boundaries to put the two lawmakers in the same district, said he didn't think Barr would top 4 percent of the vote.

"But in some states that may be enough," Linder said.

Democrats seem gleeful at the prospect. Tad Devine, a Washington-based Democratic strategist, said Republicans "are crazy if they aren't worried about Barr."

"Undoubtedly any votes he gets come out of McCain's votes," Devine said. "He hurts them."

Barr, a former federal prosecutor, was swept into Congress with more than 70 other House GOP freshmen in 1994. An articulate, sometimes outspoken orator, he gained attention as the first lawmaker to call for Clinton's resignation over the Monica Lewinsky scandal and was one of the House prosecutors who pressed the impeachment case in the Senate.

Barr also was known during his four terms in the House for his opposition to softening drug laws, including the medical use of marijuana, and his support for gun rights. He tried unsuccessfully to bar military bases from according witchcraft adherents the same accommodations as other religious worshippers.

Even after Clinton left office, Barr continued to pursue him. He asked congressional investigators to study the extent of White House damage done by departing Clinton staffers and tried to build a "Counter Clinton Library" in Little Rock, Ark. He filed a $30 million lawsuit against Clinton, adviser James Carville and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt for causing him "emotional distress" in retaliation for the impeachment proceedings.
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Someone please explain Barr's libertarian cred here?

He sat on the committee that wasted 6 years and 80 million dollars to prove Clinton lied about sex....

Did he or did he not vote for/support NAFTA? The Iraq war? The Patriot Act?

Was he not part of the BS Gingrich "revolution"?

NOW he's a liberatrian??? right.....


BUT I SURE AM GLAD HE JUMPED IN!!!

but for some reason people who claim to be libertarian like him.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/


That has aligned Barr with the Libertarians.

Are the crazy of the crazies. He wasn't unamimously nominated he had some opposition.

Barr probably appeals to the anti-tax everyone has the right to own a Tank wing of the group.

I think he renounced his previous positions on Drugs and the War.

Sorry I had to get that pun in there. Barr did join the ACLU after his term in congress. I thought it was kind of weird at the time considering the religious right stuff that he supported and his part in the hunting of Bill Clinton. I'm not sure if his libertarian stances are real or he's just reinventing himself to gain more political power. Either way, I'm happy he's in the race. He'll put some Southern and Western states in play that we haven't had much of a chance at recently.

:evilgrin: