Liberty MavenBig Birthday Bob Barr Bomb Begins
July 1st, 2008 9:10 pm | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Activism, Bob Barr, Fund Raising, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Money, Politics, Ron Paul | 4 Comments
I apologize for the shameless alliteration but not only does the Ron Paul style money bomb for Bob Barr begin tonight at midnight, but it also marks my birthday. I’ve always said that my love of liberty was somehow injected into me at birth since I was born on the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress.
Tomorrow, or maybe later tonight I will participate in the Barr Bomb money bomb along with over 280 other pledged contributors. No the total won’t equal or even come close to the Ron Paul money bombs of yesteryear and that is a shame. Barr is spreading the liberty message of Ron Paul far and wide no matter what his tunnel visioned detractors claim. Last Sunday he carried that message to Chris Wallace and FOX News Sunday. This Sunday he will take that message to ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos”.
I lament the fact that Barr has a voting record that doesn’t match his current day rhetoric. It dims the potential fervent support he could have from the Ron Paul faithful. I equally lament that the Ron Paul faithful can’t see beyond his voting record and realize he is the best vessel for spreading the freedom message left in the race. This is why I will be throwing some of my federal reserve notes into the Barr campaign coffers on my 37th birthday. I respectfully request you do the same. After all it is all about getting that sublime message into the minds of the masses. Bob Barr is accomplishing that better than anyone right now, and that includes Ron Paul.
Pledge at http://barrbomb.com/ then donate at http://bobbarr2008.com/donate
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 am (#)
Happy Birthday!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:39 am (#)
This lack of enthusiasm just gives more verification to my suspicion that most of Paul’s supporters are not aligned with Dr. Paul philosophically. His success isn’t accountable to freedom lovers. Other than the small libertarian core of his financial supporters, most of the rest of them are just a ragtag group of conspiracy theorists, people that agree with him on only one or two issues, anti-capitalists who mistake his anti-corporatism with anti-capitalism, racialists who had been subscribers to the Ron Paul Report, 9/11 Truthers who mistook him for being a Truther, and people susceptible to cultism. Dr. Paul is in for a disappointment when he will come to realize that freedom is actually NOT popular. HE was popular, but his message was understood by only a small minority of his supporters.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm (#)
NoJo, I think you came to the wrong conclusion. Dr. Paul is the ONLY thing that can unite the motley crew that is his base. His supporters are perfectly aligned with his philosophies, because they’re not his philosophies. They are natural law.
Bob Barr has too many contradictions in his record to get people really excited. Ron Paul had a perfect record, didn’t get into politics until he had it figured out, and then didn’t bend one degree to the establishment elitist power. Bob Barr cannot claim anything close and so he will never muster the enthusiasm that Ron Paul did–and still does come to think of it.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm (#)
I have contributed many $$$ to Ron Paul, the Champion of the Constitution and a true Revolutionary.
However, I will not be contributing any of my money directly to Bob Barr.
Instead, I will be donating to the CIA and the DEA. I’m sure Bob Barr will still receive it.