Legitimate Standard Bearer?
25% (9 votes)
Opportunist, Career Politician and Weasel?
36% (13 votes)
Oh, The Libertarian Party Had A Convention?
19% (7 votes)
Oh, There's A Libertarian Party?
3% (1 vote)
Oh, There's An Election Coming Up?
17% (6 votes)
Total votes: 36
Comments
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
Oh, and please discuss why.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
Practical. Politics is about compromise. It doesn't always go down easy.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
I voted "Legitimate Standard Bearer," but really, my vote is for both that one and "Opportunist, Career Politician and Weasel." I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
NTTAWWT
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
Bob is doing with the LP exactly what Ralph did with the greens. I expect a similar aftermath.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
And what Ross did with the Reformers!! Ha-ha...
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
Didn't he invent the Reform Party, though?
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
Having been a LP activist I have to say that practicality and compromise do not come easily to most LPers (or I suppose to libertarians as a whole). It was something of a battle to get people focused on political ends and to not get bogged down debating munutiae.
That's exactly what I was thinking as I punched my chad.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
I'm pretty sure he did.
And, if I remember rightly, there was some surprise that it continued after his seeming loss of interest. I think most people tough of it as his own vanity project. Could be wrong, of course.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
The internet's leading purveyor of possibly accurate information says you are correct that Perot founded the Reform Party.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
There's a possibility that I may actually get to see (and photograph) Bob Barr tonight! I'll keep you filled in.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
See if you can get the photo when he's standing close to a mirror. I want to see if he casts a reflection.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
Yes, he was there, and yes, I got some pictures! So apparently his visage can be captured in electrons, at least. :-P
He's a pretty well-spoken guy, although I admit I couldn't tell you now, only about an hour later, much of what he actually said. He is a politician, after all. Then again, it wasn't a serious platform speech, either. What I remember most is him saying that all drug laws should devolve to the states, that we have to be pragmatic in how we present our issues (ie, don't start discussions by saying that 8-year-olds should be able to buy heroin), and how one guy did kind of put him on the spot by asking him about a statement he'd made about a year ago in which he said we should support our friend Colombia...in part because of their support in the drug war.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
Oh, and I almost forgot: present at the next debate will be...Kerry Howley! Talking about selling her eggs, no less! Better lock up Warren now.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
huh, wha? Oh I'll take an omelet, mushrooms, peppers, and onions.
Just saw Barr on Colbert. That just flushed any hope I had that this talking piece of furniture was going to be the savior of the LP. Barr could have tranquilized a rogue elephant. Without question the most boring Libertarian Ev-Er
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
I chose "Career Politician, Opportunist, and Weasel" because there wasn't an 'all of the above' option.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
What election....I thought we finished that in January?
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
I have a picture of Bob Barr up on Flickr now:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60333280@N00/2577221264/
Somehow I don't think his campaign's going to be wanting to use it in their materials, but I really like it as a kind of weird impressionistic portrait of him caught in a moment of introspection.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
Oh wow. It's as if you captured him in the act of morphing into his own bronze statue.
Re: Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Candidate for President
The Boston Glob is saying that Barr could conceivably be a spoiler:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/23/some_in_gop_fear_fiery_barr_as_spoiler/
But "fiery"? Are we talking about the same Bob Barr? Also, the article has a (to me) glaring factual error: "The Libertarian Party hasn't cracked 1 percent of the national popular vote in a presidential race..." In 1980, the LP got 1.1% of the popular vote. I know it still doesn't mean much, but it just bugs me that they're making a flat claim that's easily disprovable.
Stevo, thanks for your comment - I got a good laugh out of that one, and now that's all I can think when I see that picture.