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Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:45:39 PM
Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr said on Monday that he will run for president as a Libertarian, a development that could pull some votes from Republican candidate John McCain. ( Barr announces Libertarian presidential bid - Yahoo! News )
Barr said neither McCain nor Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner, would rein in a government that he said has grown too powerful after the September 11 attacks.
"A vote for the status quo ... is really and truly a wasted vote, because it is not going to do anything," Barr said.
As a Georgia congressman between 1995 and 2003, Barr was a stalwart conservative and one of the leaders of the impeachment of Democratic President Bill Clinton.
But Barr has broken with the Bush administration in recent years over its domestic surveillance program and what he called its abuse of due process rights.
(It is sad to see somebody on the right leave the right. So what does this party Barr has joined stand for check them out the Official Libertarian Party. Here is one example.
A. End the war on drugs. I don't know if Barr is embracing every view of this party including ending the war on drugs but just by joining them he is helping encourage their ideas. Barr has no chance of being elected but he could help a Democrat get elected which at this time would be bad for the nation. )
