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Barr to announce Libertarian White House bid
AP via SFGate ^ | 5/12/8 | BEN EVANS, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 05/12/2008 7:51:01 AM PDT by SmithL

Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr is expected to announce that he's running for president as a Libertarian.

His candidacy would be a wild card in the White House race that many believe would hurt Republican Sen. John McCain.

Barr had scheduled a news conference Monday. He first must win the Libertarian nomination at the party's national convention that begins May 22. Party officials consider him a front-runner

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barr; bobbarr; bong; bongwater; ganja; ganjaparty; losertarian; thirdparty
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To: Grampa Dave

OUTSTANDING!...Great job! made ME laugh on this tired Monday morning.....Please keep posting this all the way to the election!


41 posted on 05/12/2008 8:45:38 AM PDT by HappyinAZ
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To: HappyinAZ

Hussein Obama”Hama may be the most dangerous man in America.

If we allow him to be elected, we will deserve whatever fate he will bring.

The election of the Clintoons is still costing this country and yet the walk of waters types are still proud of helping the Clintoons to get elected.


42 posted on 05/12/2008 8:52:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein Obama"Hama's" Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11")
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To: stockpirate
Huck is no friend of Conservatism so as a pick for the VP spot he doesn’t work.

You are sure right about that. He sure isn't a conservative!.

43 posted on 05/12/2008 8:53:17 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: SmithL
Barr should pick Sam Nunn as a running mate.

No reason other than I like the sound of "Barr-Nunn '08"

44 posted on 05/12/2008 8:55:12 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Grampa Dave
Hussein Obama”Hama may be the most dangerous man in America.

Oh, here we go with the dramatics.

45 posted on 05/12/2008 8:58:32 AM PDT by jmc813 (Eek!)
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To: jmc813
That "stupid prick's" speech at the March For Justice helped establish FR as the premier political site on the web. It's perfectly valid to have issues with him, but freepers should show him at least a modicum of respect.

Barr whitewashing of the ACLU is akin to Charles Lindbergh's whitewashing of the Nazis. They are an enemy agent, bent on the destruction of America from within, as were the Nazis from without. I will offer unto Barr the respect he deserves--none.

46 posted on 05/12/2008 9:01:24 AM PDT by montag813
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To: wolf78

my understanding is that this is one of the issues that he has flip flopped on and is now against the WOD.


47 posted on 05/12/2008 9:04:32 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (Freepmail to get On or Off the ron paul let freedom ping.)
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To: bw17

Barr works with the ACLU to protect our 4th Amendment freedoms and reverse the abuses of the grossly misnamed Patriot Act.

Mr. Barr was not just siding with the ACLU in this effort fight this assault on our liberty. He was also siding with groups like the American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, the Free Congress Foundation, the Second Amendment Foundation, and other solidly conservative groups. Nor do they mention that bedrock conservative groups like the Christian Coalition, the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Family Research Council, the Southeastern Legal Foundation, the Business-Industry Political Action Committee, the National Right to Life Committee, to name just a few, have also worked with the ACLU to protect a Constitutional right.

I suppose you don’t think those groups are conservative either.

I guess you support the McCain/Finegold assault on the First Amendment because the ACLU fought it.


48 posted on 05/12/2008 9:09:14 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: montag813
Barr whitewashing of the ACLU is akin to Charles Lindbergh's whitewashing of the Nazis. They are an enemy agent, bent on the destruction of America from within, as were the Nazis from without.

The ACLU is that much worse than freaking La Raza?

49 posted on 05/12/2008 9:10:48 AM PDT by jmc813 (I would rather have shrimp than amnesty.)
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To: SmithL

Mr. ACLU running as a libertarian. Hmmm, seems Bob Barr is the Libertarian’s John McCain.


50 posted on 05/12/2008 9:11:22 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: SUSSA; All
"...If Barr gets the nomination there will be one conservative in the race..."

Yep. And one Socialist, Marxist Liberal Democrat in the White House.

But hey. People will have clear consciences and say "At least I didn't vote for a RINO."

Of course, images of Macbeth or Pilate come to mind.

51 posted on 05/12/2008 9:12:06 AM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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To: Robe
I’m know McCain fan but I’ll hold my nose and pull the lever

I wouldn't be so hasty...

The Liberal Republicans don't care who wins as long as it isn't one of the Dems...

Like with the Perot voter, the Bob Barr voters will not back down...You'll get Bob Barr, or one of the Rats...

Seems like you'd have figured that out with Perot/Bush...Bush didn't stand a chance but you wasted your vote on him anyway...

If Barr runs, McCain doesn't stand a chance...You going to waste your vote on him as well, and elect a Democrat???

52 posted on 05/12/2008 9:17:06 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: Bogeygolfer
You refer to the party as if it has nothing to do with conservatives.

That is the point... the republican party of today has utterly abandoned its conservative ideals. Sure, it will always be pro-life and pro-God, but those issues are not the duty of goverance.

Energy policy? The republicans are weak. Border control? Weak. US sovereignty? Weak. Fiscal policy? Weak. Trade and industry? Weak. The republicans in the US House and Senate, and our president, have become big government cheerleaders who practically salivate every time they have a chance to pander to illegals, China, unions, liberals, or any other enemy of the United States and American citizens. The party has been in decline since the day that Bush took office, and has apparently decided that they would rather keep their jobs than to roll their sleeves up, get dirty, and obey and defend the Constitution and the principles that this nation was founded upon.

I know nothing about Bob Barr save his work on the Clinton impeachment proceedings and his stance on China. I do know that McInsane is going to be another Bush... and that winning the war in Iraq doesn't matter one damn bit if amnesty is passed, LOST is signed, or any other of the ten dozen anti-American things that globalist loony supports come to fruition.
53 posted on 05/12/2008 9:18:12 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: rlmorel

People should have thought of that before supporting another liberal for the Republican nomination. Too bad the party elites thought they could keep nominating liberals and still get conservatives to vote for them.

They went to that well once too often.


54 posted on 05/12/2008 9:20:40 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: SmithL; All

Now the pressure is on Gary Bauer to declare.

C’mon Gary, America needs you!


55 posted on 05/12/2008 9:20:42 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: montag813

I’m not sure what candidate you are speaking of.

McCain is, as of 2006, only 65% conservative, according to the ACU.

I have at least 35% to hate about the guy.


56 posted on 05/12/2008 9:22:53 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: SmithL

http://www.chbn.com/Clip.aspx?key=8BF2D6BFC8CACD0C


57 posted on 05/12/2008 9:28:50 AM PDT by moose2004
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To: SUSSA; All

As true as far as it goes, but it isn’t as if it is watching some other person’s kid deal with the consequences of his bad decisions. I don’t feel justified in taking any satisfaction or superiority from saying “Hey, you made your bed, now sleep in it.”

This is my bed too, like it or not.

I ask myself a simple question: Who is most pleased by this turn of events?

The answer is simple: Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Barack Obama et al are jumping up and down with joy at this development, the same way we would if the dork Nader got into the election. Sure, Barr will get only get maybe 10% of the vote, but without a liberal 3rd party to counterbalance it (or probably even with one)that is the election right there.

If liberals like Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Barack Obama et al are for something, I am pretty sure to be against it nearly all the time. Pretty simple.


58 posted on 05/12/2008 9:31:15 AM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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To: Grampa Dave
Anyone hired by the ACLU is not a conservative and probably not much of an American.

Better than giving speeches to La Raza.

59 posted on 05/12/2008 9:32:15 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bipartisanship: Two wolves and the American people deciding what's for dinner)
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To: Iscool

“If Barr runs, McCain doesn’t stand a chance...You going to waste your vote on him as well, and elect a Democrat???”

Bob Barr is a kook and a joke, he won’t hurt McCain any more than Buchanan “hurt” Bush in 2000. Not going to happen.


60 posted on 05/12/2008 9:32:43 AM PDT by moose2004
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