Bob Barr Getting Closer to Announcing His Candidacy on the Libertarian Ticket

[Herb Schaffler]

The rumor is getting louder that Bob Barr is getting ready to announce his candidacy on the Libertarian ticket. Here is what Reason.com says about it.

"If Barr runs, he's going to have a clearer message. It's laid out [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This No Hillary For President Forum Link. : a vote for Barr is anti-pre-emptive war, pro-privacy, against the drift of the GOP and of politics writ large. The bet is that the GOP will only take heed if it [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This No Hillary For President Forum Link. because a candidate running on those issues helps elect a Democrat."

"I have no idea how big a Barr/LP vote could be... the only inkling is [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This No Hillary For President Forum Link. by Rasmussen taken at the height of the Ron Paul campaign, which had 8 percent of voters going for Paul in a 4-way race with the Democratic and Republican nominees and Ralph Nader. I do know that a defection by about 2-3 percent of McCain voters in Nevada, New Mexico and Iowa, if every other state voted the way it did in 2004, would throw the election into the House of Representatives, where the Democrat would obviously win."

Barr can take enough votes away from McCain to help Obama win the election. Maybe this will finally teach Republicans to go back to their non-interventionist roots.