The Moderate Voice - Latest Comments in Bob Barr Conference Call, July 28

Re: Bob Barr Conference Call, July 28

kritt11 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:55:39 -0000

timr- I agree completely- its a stalling technique to appease Big Oil. We knew about the Greenhouse effect in the '70's. The last thing we need are more federally mandated studies.

Re: Bob Barr Conference Call, July 28

timr — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:25:57 -0000

his comments on global warming are typical repub responses. lets study this to death so we dont have to actually do anything about it. same total comittment to big oil that the repubs have had for years. iraq war=big oil, the big 4 return to iraq after being kicked out in the 70's. possible war with iran=big oil is behind this also for the same reasons. they should have drafted Ron Paul for president.

Re: Bob Barr Conference Call, July 28

kritt11 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:13:46 -0000

Uh- Barr's statement that he's not convinced about global warming-- that it needs more study knocks him out for me. Even worse than what we have now- if that's even possible.

Re: Bob Barr Conference Call, July 28

superdestroyer — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:25:11 -0000

Nicrivera,

For the libertarian party to become relevant, it will have to gain support from current Democratic voters. Nominating Bob Barr fails to do this. Why would any political party want to appeal to demographic groups that are shrinking? that is what the Libertarians are doing.

Re: Bob Barr Conference Call, July 28

runasim — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:33:31 -0000

i agree with Libertarians on a narrow set of their agenda items.
As a party, though, I find them to be totally divorced from the realities of current times or an understanding of what it means to be one nation. .

Nothing in the interview convinced me to feel otherwise.

Re: Bob Barr Conference Call, July 28

nicrivera — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:25:01 -0000

Why the libertarisn decided on a retreaded Republican failure is beyond reason. Why take the middle class vote that is a shrinking minority and then split it beween two candidates.

Your comment assumes that the LP actually cares about whether it hurts the Republican Party's chances in November. Hardly. Whatever sympathies the LP had for the Republican Party has been destroyed by 7 1/2 years of Bush, 7 1/2 years of rampant spending (both discretionary and nondiscretionary), 5 1/2 years of an unnecessary war, and the repeated flouting of the Constitution and civil liberties.

Re: Bob Barr Conference Call, July 28

nicrivera — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:12:36 -0000

As someone who voted libertarian in the last presidential election in in the last two midterm elections, I hope that the LP will do well during the 2008 election and eventually become a viable alternative to the Democrats and Republicans.

However, I was not very satisfied with the selection of Bob Barr as its candidate for president (and equally dissatisfied with the selection of Wayne Allyn Root as candidate for Vice President). There were essentially 7 candidates in the running: 4 genuine Libertarians (Kubby, Phillies, Ruwart, Jingozian), 1 recent-Democrat-turned-Libertarian (Gravel), and 2 recent-Republican-turned-Libertarians (Barr and Root). Why the LP went with 2 former Republicans who only recently joined the party (and both of whom have endorsed--until recently--some very unlibertarian positions) is beyond me.

Re: Bob Barr Conference Call, July 28

superdestroyer — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:34:30 -0000

the only person less relevant to politics than John McCain is Bob Barr Why the libertarisn decided on a retreaded Republican failure is beyond reason. Why take the middle class vote that is a shrinking minority and then split it beween two candidates.