Bob Barr: Libertarian Party Blight

So now, former congressman, reformed Drug Warrior and current homophobe, Bob Barr is joining Mike Gravel in seeking the Libertarian Party presidential nomination.

Probably this would be the best way for the Libertarian Party to get some serious votes. Ron Paul and the paleolibertarians like him a lot. As do white supremacists. Maybe some of the rEVOLution enthusiasts, who think Ron Paul invented libertarian thought, will jump aboard.

The campaign will attract the Know Nothings and skinheads, since Barr opposes both legal and illegal immigration. These ignorant morons, who turned out to rally behind Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the Battle of Bell Road last week, are a natural constituency:



And he will siphon off those voters who will always vote against their best interests, and fundamental political beliefs, so long as the candidate understands, that no matter how adorable Ellen DeGeneres is, Jesus would slit her throat if he was on the scene.

The values voters don't really care if the federal government reins in the budget, gets the economy on track, or ends the war-- if they are committed to getting their daughters to quit dressing like Paris Hilton, and doing something about all that sex education.

Its no secret, that these value voters have no use for John McCain, who occasionally throws them a bone on abortion, but has expended a lot more energy trashing the late Reverend Falwell.

When he was in Congress Bob Barr sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act, saying “The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit.”

And in his continuing effort to ensure that the federal government protects and promotes his narrow brand of Christianity, in 1999 Bob attempted to outlaw the practice of Wicca in the military.

However, like so many of his ilk, the flames of hypocrisy burn brightly in the life of Bob Barr.

He has been married three times. Paid for his second wife’s abortion (she also suspected he was cheating on her). Failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and, while married to his third and present wife, was photographed licking whipped cream off the boobs of strippers at his inaugural party.

It is nice that Barr is concerned about the Patriot Act (even though he voted for it) and that he is against the Iraq war (though he was in favor of it when it mattered) and I am told he is no longer a dedicated Drug Warrior, but I hope libertarians are not going to cozy up to the former House Floor Captain of the Cum Stain Impeachment Debacle, who in the process personally filed a 30 million dollar frivolous lawsuit against Bill Clinton and Larry Flynt (the defendants caused Barr emotional distress while he was attempting to impeach the president).

It is a monumental travesty if the Libertarian Party nominates a sleazy, flip flopping, hypocritical D list politician, who also happens to be an anti-First Amendment religious loon, at the expense of all those who have tirelessly worked the bake sales, gun shows, petition drives and peace marches, like Christine Smith, sincerely promoting the true libertarian message.

I vote Libertarian, because I can leave the polling place with a clear conscience.

The only way to blot out the shame of tapping Bob Barr's name would be to celebrate the Second Amendment, with a bullet through my skull.

What's next?

Alan Keyes for veep?