Bob Barr, Former Republican, Announces Bid for Libertarian Nomination

With the three remaining candidates for president being so weak, inspiring, and just plain nauseating, it is time to start looking somewhere else, anywhere else. My search has led me here, for starters.

Bob Barr, a former Republican, has announced he is running to become the Libertarian party nominee for president.

“My name is Bob Barr and I’m a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America,” said the former Republican lawmaker, who played a key role in the congressional impeachment of former president Bill Clinton. Barr said he was running because there was not “currently or anywhere on the horizon” any candidate who understood the principles of fiscal conservatism and basic principles on which he said America was founded.

AMEN! Our whole system of government has been corrupted and it truly is sad to watch.

This could pull votes away from John McCain, but so what? At best he will pull as many votes away from McCain as Ralph Nader will from Obama or Clinton. And if by any chance a vote for Barr is the same as a vote for the Democrat candidate, and it leads to a Democrat president, so be it. I don’t care. To me there isn’t a hell of a lot of difference between McCain, Obama, or Clinton. They are all on the wrong side of illegal immigration, taxes, and global warming for starters.

Do I agree with everything that Bob Barr stands for? No. But I probably agree with more of his stances than with John McCain’s.

I will be voting for a third party candidate, and I will do so with a clear conscience. I will not vote for John McCain just because he is a Republican, and I sure as hell won’t vote for Obama or Clinton, so I have no other choice than to vote third party. If by voting for a third party candidate Obama or Clinton becomes president, don’t blame me or the other Republicans who decided to vote third party. Blame John McCain, and blame the voters who nominated McCain.

You led us to this point.