The Bob Barr campaign set a goal to raise $88, 000 by July 4th to kickstart the campaign. Thanks in part to the July 2nd money bomb and more donations coming in over the past few days they’ve reached their goal.
Today we begin rating the Presidential candidates with our rating for Barack Obama. The Paul-O-Meter will give us a total score on 20 criteria. The closer a candidate gets to 100 points the more that candidate is like Ron Paul. For each criteria we will give the score and a short justification for that score. Read the results for Barack Obama below.
Two hundred and thirty-two years ago, patriots of the American Revolution banded together to draft a proclamation to the entire world that men were not meant to exist as slaves to their government. That document, the Declaration of Independence, became a rallying cry for oppressed people across the world, and still to this day is one of the most powerful declarations of the relationship between man’s freedom and the institution of government. From then onward, Americans have celebrated the Fourth of July as Independence Day. The day marks independence from tyranny, oppression, taxation and an arbitrary enforcement of laws.
Today, we celebrate those same ideals.
In celebration Independence Day, and the freedoms our Founding Fathers put their lives at risk for, we are asking for a symbolic donation of $17.76 to help continue the new American Revolution we are currently fighting.
Government is once again at a level incompatible with the freedom our Founding Fathers designed us to have.
Your symbolic donation of $17.76 will help to turn back the tide of tyranny and help to bring a new era of liberty and prosperity to all Americans.
What will your $17.76 go towards in the fight for liberty?
It will help fund ballot access in the remaining states where voters have yet to have the Libertarian choice. It will help fund volunteer and outreach activities to bring more patriots like you into the Libertarian Party. Most of all, it will help the Libertarian Party be more effective in fighting assaults to freedom from the current Administration and those which have infringed upon it before!
If you haven’t already decided to donate, please consider this offer from one of our fellow Libertarian Party patriots:
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Please consider his generous show of patriotism and dedication to the fight for liberty, and donate $17.76 today!
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Thank you for your donations, your dedication, your support and your commitment to liberty in America.
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Ron Paul was interviewed via phone on FOX Business News yesterday. He spoke about capitalism, monetary policy, oil prices, foreign policy, Iran, income taxes, and our costly interventions overseas. Yes, he fit a lot into 5 minutes.
In case you missed this (I did) interview from a couple weeks ago here it is. Bob Barr is interviewed by South Carolina’s Southern Avenger. Good interview for Barr.
Most presidential campaign books come at the beginning of the campaign season. This gives even a bad campaign book undeserved relevance. But the increased relevance is generally offset by discernable reductions in candor and specificity, so as not to provide one’s opponent with too many inviting targets.
Ron Paul’s “The Revolution: A Manifesto” defies this convention. Writing at the end of his campaign, and therefore knowing he will not be the next president, Mr. Paul forcefully articulates our bedrock constitutional principles and energetically advances his argument that these principles can restore American greatness for years to come ,if we will only return to them now.
And although Mr. Paul’s presidential campaign is over, this is indeed a manifesto, not a memoir. These are political principles for our future, things Mr. Paul wants us to remember after he has left the rostrum.
Mr. Paul’s central thesis is that we have departed from the principles of our nation’s Founding in ways that systematically make us less free. Consequently, we now have a much larger, more powerful national government, one our Founders would not recognize - or might recognize as an empire doomed to the fate of all previous empires.
Such a thesis could easily become unbearably dark and tedious. But Mr. Paul, a medical doctor, makes his diagnosis in seven concise and lucid chapters that never lose the thread of hope for recovery.
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.
Bob Barr spoke with Newsmax’s Ashley Martella about his campaign and several issues in a YouTube video released by Newsmax today. Barr gets in all of his usual liberty minded talking points here. Good stuff.
Bob Barr sat down for a rather lengthy grilling from GQ magazine’s Wil S. Hilton. Hilton approached the interview with an obvious sarcastic bias and attacked Barr with some of his questions. They even argued a bit, but Barr held his own, as usual. Here is a particularly argumentative excerpt:
Why shouldn’t the government interfere in the market and rein in corporations?
Is that the job of the federal government? I would say absolutely not. The government is not there to guarantee that the market is going to operate in a certain way.
Isn’t the government there to do whatever the people want? Isn’t that the whole idea of a democracy?
In a pure democracy, yes. But we don’t have a pure democracy. We have certain principles on which the nation is founded. The basic philosophy—the reason the government was set up the way it is—is to keep the government out of those areas. In our system, it’s not the job of the federal government to do those things. It is the job of the government to ensure free commerce.
Do you actually believe free commerce will cap pollution and keep the water pure and the air clean?
It may or may not.
Don’t you think the public has a right to keep its water clean?
I wouldn’t equate public concern with the appropriate role of government. The public, by and large, would like government to do all sorts of things.
And this is a democracy, and the government should do what they want.
It’s not a democracy. We have certain principles. The government exists to provide very limited functions—for example, free commerce.
The government exists to do whatever people want it to do.
Part of the problem is that we no longer have a truly educated public. The Founding Fathers lived in a very different world. They lived in a world where people understood and cared about the written word. They had a much more educated citizenry.
The reason the “citizenry” was more educated was because the “citizenry” excluded everybody who wasn’t a white male landowner.
Abigail Adams was one of the brightest people around back then.
But she couldn’t vote, and neither could slaves, or anybody who didn’t own land.
But Abigail Adams still influenced public policy through her interchanges with her husband. Part of the problem today is that we don’t have an educated citizenry like that. The citizenry may clamor for the government to do all sorts of things. That does not provide an appropriate basis for the government to do it.
Who else is going to decide what the government should do, if not the citizenry?
We don’t live in a democracy! This was not intended to be a country where the citizenry decides what they want government to do! We have a structure of government that is based on principles, independent of the vagaries of public opinion.
I’m not sure that’s true at all. The citizens can elect representatives to do whatever they want. If the citizens want to take away their own right to free speech, they can do it.
They could.
They can make government come to their doors every morning with a newspaper and donuts if they want.
Well, we’re almost at that point.
And so it goes. One wonders if they would treat Obama and McCain to the same line of opinionated questions, sarcasm, and assumptions. Read the full interview here at GQ.
Who needs a Ron Paul endorsement when you have the Paul-O-Meter?
Everyone knows the perfection of Ron Paul. He is already a living legend. All future candidates are damaged goods simply because they are not Ron Paul. There is only one Ron Paul. So to see how other candidates measure up to his perfection we are introducing the “Paul-O-Meter”.
The Paul-O-Meter ranks candidates on a scale from 0 to 100 depending on how closely they are in agreement with Ron Paul on chosen criteria. Since no candidate can possibly equal Ron Paul, the highest score on the Paul-O-Meter attainable for candidates other than Ron Paul is 99. To simplify the ranking, each candidate will be graded from 1 to 5 on each of the 20 criteria. The 20 criteria are listed below, along with a short description for each.
Liberty Maven
” from Mark Grattis in the Washington Times.
