Tomorrow Bob Barr will be interviewed by Al Rantel on KABC 790 at 2:05pm Eastern. Last Friday Wayne Allyn Root was interviewed by Rantel. He certainly didn’t sound like a neo-conservative war monger in this interview. In fact, he sounded much like Ron Paul and Bob Barr. He admits in the interview to doing a 180 on the Iraq war. Some will look at this transformation as mere convenience, others will take him at his word. Some are stuck somewhere in the middle. All in all though Root gives a pretty good interview.
Today Bob Barr received some significant main stream media coverage regarding his potential spoiler role for John McCain on CNN’s The Situation Room. The video below contains more than 5 minutes of footage covering Barr. The first is a segment with Wolf Blitzer discussing Barr’s impact on the election with two talking heads from the left and right. Next, Jack Cafferty covers Barr with his Cafferty File question. The final clip are the answers from viewers to that question. Ron Paul gets a few mentions as well.
This is not only great coverage for Barr but also for the Libertarian Party, especially the Cafferty portion. The viewer email by “Jacob” wins for best response to the question.
Bob Barr was interviewed by Dennis Miller on his syndicated radio show today. They discussed much about FISA and Barr’s role in the election. Interesting how Miller cuts Barr off at the end of the interview. It was an odd thing to do. Miller apparently believes that Obama and McCain will actually debate the substantive nature of issues like FISA, limited government, taxes, etc.. Miller cut Barr off for suggesting that his own candidacy will move the debate more towards the fundamentals rather than the usual political surface. The overall meat of the interview is pretty good though. The interview is about 14 minutes long (commercials stripped out).
Ben Adler writes on Politico.com about the likely destination for Ron Paul supporters in the November election. In doing so he recaps Paul’s campaign and brings up the racist newsletters again. I guess he needed some filler for his article. Of course he has to use one of the most negative aspects of Paul’s campaign. He also erroneously reports that $5 million was raised in one day for a money bomb, when in fact more than $6 million was raised.
Overall the article concludes that Ron Paul supporters will be split amongst McCain, Barr, and Baldwin via quotes from Ron Paul volunteers and campaign staff.
“Unless McCain does make changes in his platform,” including abandoning his support for the Iraq War and renouncing deficit spending, “I don’t think [Paul supporters] will be voting for him,” said Hart, who hopes to attend the Republican Convention as a delegate for the state. “They will more likely be voting for the Constitution Party or Bob Barr.”
“It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of the disaffected Republicans would cast their vote for Bob Barr because he’s much more conservative than John McCain,” said Jeff Greenspan, Paul’s Nevada state coordinator.
A new poll in the Presidential race in Georgia shows Bob Barr at 6% and John McCain leading by only 1% over Obama. It will be interesting to see if Obama focuses his campaign on these kinds of states where Barr is expected to do fairly well.
It’s almost a no-brainer that he will, but only time will tell.
Bob Barr appeared on FOX News today with Neil Cavuto. He discusses his relationship with Ron Paul and his recruitment of Ron Paul supporters to help his campaign. They then go on to discuss polling numbers and ballot access.
It’s interesting how much Cavuto was pushing the Ron Paul angle in this short interview while Barr seemed to be downplaying it a bit.
The two libery loving Republicans have been defeated in their respective primaries today. Amit Singh almost pulled it out, but his opponent pulled away at the end as the final votes in Fairfax County were counted.
Vern McKinley was up against a juggernaut in 28 year incumbent Frank Wolf so his landslide loss was not surprising. At least Vern had the guts to go up against this neo-conservative big government Republican and give true Reagan principled conservatives a voice in the election.
Vern and Amit are heroes of liberty and heroes of liberty are heroes of mine. Thank you both so much for the sacrifices you’ve made to give Virginia voters a true limited government choice.
The red heart placards being hoisted above the heads of the Mary Ruwart supporters at the Libertarian National Convention last weekend were a perfect representation of her purist libertarianism. She is, some say, a radical libertarian. Her positions reflect the hearts of libertarians. Her positions are my positions. The libertarian beliefs I hold close to my heart.
Bob Barr’s supporters held the standard “politician” signs we see during every convention and campaign. They represented the moderate pragmatic views within libertarianism. This is a perfect description of Bob Barr’s platform. His positions are my positions, but his positions are closer to my mind than my heart.
Ron Paul has received 23% of the vote in the Idaho primary with 41% of the precincts reporting. Hillary Clinton has received 17% with 100% reporting on the Democratic side. Obama has beaten Clinton by a larger margin than McCain will likely beat Paul.
It looks like Idaho will become Ron Paul’s best primary showing yet. McCain is going to be haunted by Ron Paul right up to the convention. I wouldn’t want it any other way. Except perhaps, for Ron Paul to be on the winning end of the nomination.
Bob Barr continues to spread the liberty message in the media in this interview with Neil Cavuto on FOX News today. They discuss his chances and point to the recent Rasmussen poll showing Barr at 6% before getting the Libertarian nomination.
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The red heart placards being hoisted above the heads of the Mary Ruwart supporters at the 
