There is NO WAY I can justify voting for John McCain this November. And there is no guarantee right now that Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate. I still expect Hillary Clinton and her crooked followers to steal the nomination. If that happens, whom should we vote for?
I can’t see throwing my vote away on Ralph Nader. And I certainly can’t vote for anyone from the Green Party – sorry but they are far too socialistic for my taste. What to do?
Well, the answer came to the forefront this Sunday when the Libertarian Party chose their candidate, Bob Barr, a former Georgia GOP Congressman. “Barr left the GOP in 2006 over what he called bloated spending and civil liberties intrusions by the Bush administration,” according to the Washington Post.
Barr is not a perfect candidate; for one thing his stance on immigration, while not as severe as that of most Republicans, still leaves much to be desired. However, here is an excerpt from his website regarding individual liberty:
Government limits individual actions and choices, from the way in which we educate our children to the food that we eat, from the type of light bulbs that illuminate our living rooms to the benefits that we receive for working. It is time to again trust individuals to make their own decisions. At the core of libertarianism is a trust in and respect for the personal choices of every individual. All Americans should be free to decide what is best for themselves and their families. At the same time, they must bear personal responsibility for the consequences of the decisions that they make, whether those decisions prove to be good or bad.
Sounds pretty good to me. We surely have taken a giant step backwards with regard to individual liberty under eight unfortunate years of George W. Bush. I will keep close tabs on Barr as we head toward the primary and the general.
Yeah, leet them spend their $11,000 a year on private schools, comprehensive health inurance and buy that house down in Newport while they’re at it. Good idea.
“Barr is not a perfect candidate; for one thing his stance on immigration”…. immigration?
Mr. Pedroza, you must stop this incoherent talk about the immigration if you want to be taken seriously.
Please define for us: what is immigration and how should it be administered according to your liking?
… and who in the OC media famously threw her vote away on Nader in 2000? (tick, tock, tick, tock) Hint: She writes under a pseudonym.
SMS
There was no sin in voting for Nader if you were in California; he was best on issues and we knew Gore would take this state. So I did. But I begged my acquaintances in swing states not to.
I heard Bob Barr speak when he came to Orange a few months ago. He will be a great candidate and smoke all other candidates in the debates. This is if he is permitted into the debates.
He has my vote without reservation.
Art,
It’s Memorial Day not April Fool’s Day. Are you seriously lacking that much integrity?
Bob Barr? Ick.
You’d just be throwing a vote away. If you seriously want a third term of Bush policies, then vote for Barr or McSame.
Mary,
That is my problem with the Clintons – they are absent ANY integrity. I will never vote for a Clinton.
Barr at least seems to be a decent guy. Although, as I have said before, if Obama is the Dem candidate he has my vote.
A vote for Barr is a vote for McCain. Simple. If you do not want McCain you have to vote for whomever the Democratic Nominee is
You gotta be kidding me Art. Bob Barr is a nut! Example: “ There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief… ”
—Bob Barr, May 13 2002
Please say it ain’t so Art.
Not Vern but rather Ms M
Yo Marselle! Sign out of my name on your computer! (I had to write my Memorial Day post on a friend’s computer cos I gotta virus)
Don’t disagree with Ms M on Barr, but I prefer to choose my battles. Either important ones or absurd ones.
So sorry Vern. I tried to sign out but it kept reverting back to you and I couldn’t remember my freaking password. Sorry if this created any confusion. I think you’re off now???? ~M
Barr is a flip-flopping carpetbagger whose born-again libertarian views are contradicted by practically every vote he cast when he really was in Congress. I did some research to get the most-recent rating from four major interest group raters on actual voting records, and it supports my position that McCain is the best candidate for right-thinking Republi-tarians and Larry Elder fans:
Right to Life League:
McCain 75%
Barr 100%
Obama 0%
National Taxpayers’ Union:
McCain 88%
Barr 74%
Obama 55%
U.S. Chamber of Commerce:
McCain 100%
Barr 87%
Obama 55%
ACLU:
McCain 50%
Barr 0%
Obama 80%
Ron St. John,
How many Christians would would purge Paul from the Bible because he was a flip flopper.
People change. Insane McCain is the last candidate anyone who cares about freedom and preserving the greatness of the American experience for future generations should be voting for.
Hey Ron, nice to see you back here.
I’m trying to figure out, is a high ACLU rating good or bad in the eyes of a “Republi-tarian Larry Elder fan?” Seems like it should be good for a libertarian .. but I’ve never listened to Larry Elder. My postman does though, he sets his radio on the mailboxes and I hear “this is Larry Elder” for an hour while he slowly places the envelopes; this postman is always in a foul mood and never says hello, which makes me want to avoid Elder and stick with KTLK 1150.
What I remember of Bob Barr is the adulterer who hypocritically and mercilessly tormented Clinton during the Lewinsky days… but St. Paul’s right, sometimes people change. Maybe a flash of light did knock him off his high horse on the way to some sort of Damascus.
Vern — didn’t Barr make his first wife have an abortion too, even though his voting record is rabidly pro-life?
Yes, Dan, I believe you’re right! I don’t wanna spend too much time bashing my friend Art’s new man-crush though. Bigger fish to fry and all…
Hey, nice to see you guys around here again. Don’t be a stranger now!