Liberty MavenBob Barr On NPR Gives Refreshingly Direct Answers
October 5th, 2008 11:00 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Bailouts, Big Government, Bob Barr, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Debt, Economics, Election, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Health Care, Individual Responsibility, law, Libertarianism, Liberty, Media, Politics, Radio, rule of law, terrorism, War | 2 Responses
After watching the first two so-called main stream party debates it is quite refreshing to hear a candidate give very direct answers to the questions he is asked. Bob Barr did that during his 6 minutes on NPR yesterday. Instead of talking around the problem and answering direct questions with subterfuge like McCain, Palin, Obama, and Biden, Barr answers with precision. That must almost be enough for some people to vote for the guy even if they disagree with him.
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October 5th, 2008 at 3:22 pm (#)
It’s not that we “disagree” with Barr, it’s that we don’t trust him. He knows the right things to say but his voting record is appalling on civil liberties and the war on drugs.
His campaign did everything it could to cause division in the Ron Paul supporters. The Libertarian Party sold out when they nominated him instead of Mary Ruwart.
We choose to stand behind Ron Paul and his choice, Bob Baldwin. Even Nader is more trustworthy than Barr!
October 5th, 2008 at 4:56 pm (#)
Barr can give all the direct (and simple-minded) answers he wants as he’s nothing to lose.
Ask yourself why Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin ducked the question of what programs they would cut. Recall Obama’s list of programs–these all have voters in back of them. For him to say that a certain program needed cutting would lose him those votes, and he’s not in any position to lose those votes as the race is too close.
But Barr never had those interests, and those voters, with him, and he isn’t likely to get them on his side, as Barr wants to cut government programs in all areas. So Barr can be seemingly candid. I say again, seemingly.
What would Barr say if one or several of these groups, with their programs, came over to him–advise cuts? hardly–Barr was a Republican Congressman before he was a LP candidate, and was no Dr No.
Third Party types can say anything they want-but none of what they want will ever happen, unless, as with the Progressives or the Socialists, they have enough strength to make a difference, which they did with the Progressive era stuff of the income tax or the Depression era stuff of the several FDR programs. Indeed, the civil rights movement of the 1960′s had an impact–we had a President that was cut from that cloth–Clinton. But where are the libertarians and their influence? In the Reagan administration? Are you sure? Certainly not in any of those that followed. And if this new economic bailout bill is in any way successful or seen to be successful, the libertarian economic revolution will be delayed, nay, terminated. Paul will then retire to write his memoirs
It has been argued that this election is one of the most important in US history–and if that is true, to the extent that it is true, then the passage of the bailout bill and the defeat of Paul and several others of his type in the primaries and the usual sidelining of the third parties means that the Revolution’s time has come(if it ever was) and gone.
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