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- 00z003, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Now where am I going to get Kentucky's best tasting chicken?
- BillORights, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Please define "sniped" and then provide evidence that he sniped the nomination! And just because you "don't buy it" doesn't make it so! I was at the convention as a delegate and saw no wrong doing! Bob won it fair and square! There were plenty of empty delegate seats. Maybe if more delegates had shown up, i.e. cared, to vote for other candidates the outcome might have been different. No one seemed to care about the nomination until Bob won it! Oh, and Bob has not wavered on his positions, he's changed his views on his previous positions and works to affect those changes for liberty! There's a big difference between just saying so and working to do so!
- gandhi2, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1@bor
Bob Barr and the LP both threw Mary Ruwart under the bus. On the eve of the nomination, they conspired to take the nomination from her on grounds of her "radicalism" and hand it on a silver platter to Barr. The ***** public statement about how the LP has been soft on kiddie porn or some asinine nonsense was an obvious power move to flush out the more minarchist elements of the party and prop up a centrist that is just like the primary two parties, only lite. Barr is still a Republican, and he doesn't seem to represent the ideals that STARTED the Libertarian Party...it, like all other bastions of political activism has now been overtaken by the establishment, and people have every reason to be upset. - tobyfmtv, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Haha, I never saw the comparison, but it's almost exact!
- gandhi2, on 07/23/2008, -2/+2Bob Barr sniped the nomination, and he doesn't deserve it. He was previously registered Republican and his ideals seem to fit the standard description of a neo-con, with a leaning towards somewhat smaller government. He seems content to gobble up tax dollars for some perceived common good, to grow the authority of the State when intentions are "good" or "for the kids." The ***** that was pulled about pedophilia and the LP response to it is ***** ludicrous....suddenly out of nowhere the party leaders are on a platform which implies that small government and protecting individual rights don't go hand in hand. That flip-flop is the biggest of all the parties in the race, and that says alot, considering the Republicans just nominated a Democrat!
Let's see where he stood while in Congress:
War on Drugs(profound YES!)
Patriot Act(YES)
War in Iraq(YES)
of course....he has since wavered on all of these positions, but the LP seems more content to tag a more palatable centrist than to make any progress. I don't buy it, and nobody else should buy it either. When intolerable behavior is promoted by the party leadership, it makes sense to abandon it....why should we not lash out when the party closest to our ideals is turning into an offshoot of the bipartisan system? - BillORights, on 07/22/2008, -3/+1You are viewing the hateful wing of the LP! They didn't get their way so they lash out like angry, spoiled children!
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