Looks like the Libertarian Party has just selected Bob Barr to run on the LP ticket for President. It Bob Barr a perfect libertarian? No. Will he get the libertarian message out there and garner far more votes than anyone else who was trying to get the nomination would have? Absolutely. I would love it if a purist could do what Barr is going to do for libertarianism, but we have to be realistic. Ron Paul did phase one of getting out the libertarian message this year. Now it's up to Barr to get it out in phase two, this second half of the year.
Republicans: you brought this on yourselves by ceasing to act like Republicans and instead acting like Democrats. If Bob Barr take away enough votes to make McCain lose, then you got exactly what you deserved. The future of the GOP is libertarian, or it's nothing.
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Call me superficial, but I don't trust that moustache.
Call me superficial, but I don't trust that moustache.
Mustaches don't have a good history in Presidential politics. Only 5 mustaches and 5 beards out of 43 Presidents -- and all the beards and mustaches were between Lincoln (c. 1860) and Taft (1909-1913). I guess one could say that it was a hairy half century there.
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