Liberty MavenBob Barr Looks Back On His Own Campaign
November 24th, 2008 6:07 pm | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Activism, Bob Barr, Election, Fund Raising, Libertarianism, Liberty, Politics, Ron Paul, ballot access | 1
Dave Weigel at Reason magazine sat down with Bob Barr for a kind of exit interview for his failed bid to become the first Libertarian President of the United States. The Ron Paul phenomenon is discussed openly except for one particular answer about access to fund raising lists.
reason: What did matter? Campaign funds? At the convention, Russ Verney told me that he hoped to raise $30 million, and the campaign eventually raised about $1.2 million.
Barr: If certain things had happened that we expected to happen early on, like gaining access to certain lists very quickly, I think we could have gotten there. But those lists turned out to be not available, unfortunately, and that prevented us early to turn over and over again into significant fundraising. We didn’t get that seed money early on that we anticipated. We realistically anticipated it. We didn’t sit around say ‘it would be nice to have all that money.’”
reason: Was one of these Ron Paul’s fundraising list?
Barr: All I can say is that it appeared very realistic that we would have a list that let us raise a large amount of seed money that we could build on. And that didn’t happen.
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November 24th, 2008 at 6:46 pm (#)
What a whiner. I gave all I could to Ron Paul. I wouldn’t have given a dime to Bob Barr. Is he so stupid that he thinks that a list was going to get him money?
WE made those lists ourselves. WE supported Ron Paul without a request from him. WE dropped the surprising money bombs on the campaign. They didn’t do a thing. So, you think that a list would have helped you?
This is the kind of over-optimistic, over-indulging, over-inflated egomaniac that we all can’t stand. That is why you didn’t get a penny. Because Bob Barr is a joke and we all know it.