Comments on: Bob Barr’s Impact In 2008 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55107 Doug Mataconis Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:05:52 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55107 Joshua,

Are you talking to me ?

Because I have no idea what you’re talking about

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55106 Doug Mataconis Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:05:25 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55106 Dave,

Ron Paul’s campaign was not “torpedoed” by a lack of media coverage.

For a low-tier candidate who never polled above 10%, he got a lot more coverage than other candidates have.

If anything, it was an ineffective campaign organization and self-destructive supporters who did the damage.

]]> By: Joshua Holmes http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55105 Joshua Holmes Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:55:00 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55105 Okay, so you opposed losing the last vestiges of an American republic, but what really makes your blood boil is prescription drugs for old people? Does this make sense?

]]> By: Alexander Saint Croix http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55098 Alexander Saint Croix Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:52:01 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55098 I am a fiscally conservative voter in strong favor of small government, and have been courting the local GOP this year, becoming involved in my precinct, senate district, and congressional district. And I feel extremely disenfranchised by the major parties. There is no voice on the national level today for small government. Neoconservative talk shows broke the back of small-government conservatives in 2002 and 2003, and beat them into submission again in 2004. So I am considering sitting out on this presidential election, focusing on the local races, and drumming up public awareness of how big government gave us war and recession. Thanks for the article.

]]> By: Dave Howell http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55097 Dave Howell Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:32:01 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55097 Well, since Dr. Paul’s campaign got torpedoed by lack of media coverage, what makes this 3rd party bid any less susceptible to the same strategy? #rd party campaigns never get any air time and that’s why RP didn’t want to do it…it’s just a waste of time and energy. I was an enthusiastic supporter of RP, and now my apathy has returned 10-fold. If a man of unquestionable integrity and a perfect voting record can’t even get the GOP nomination, then what chance does this guy have at POTUS? I’ll kick back and watch…if his poll #’s get anywhere near making a dent in the mainstream candidates chances, I’ll go vote for him. But I’m predicting that I’ll be staying home again this year yet again.

]]> By: John Reading http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55079 John Reading Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:22:23 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55079 Government in America runs everything, including the elections and the media and the value of all money.

Why pretend that by having a “national (TV) dialog” and a Diebold election, we will get anything other than an establishment whore from the unitary two-party party.

All the campaigns are show-biz for the TV watchers. Liberty is dead.

Soon there will be war – a real war, a global war – and it won’t be against “terrorism”. It will be against the soft tyrany of “liberal” governments.

]]> By: Paul Hansen http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55076 Paul Hansen Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:38:29 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/04/06/bob-barrs-impact-in-2008/#comment-55076 How will anything ever get done if a 3rd party
wants to bring the country back to normal with
what would seem in today’s light as enormous changes? Would the dream ticket of Ron Paul
and Bob Barr be wasted on naysayers? I would
love to see them both hit the “key” that sends
us back to wagging the tail and not vice-versa.

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