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Bob Barr Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee

by Doug Mataconis @ 4:57 pm on April 5, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Bob Barr, Politics

On a side note, it’s design is strikingly similar to Ron Paul’s campaign website.

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How Bob Barr will help - yes, help - John McCain « The right-wing liberal says:

April 6, 2008 at 12:48 am

[...] are “exploring” - the blogosphere is all abuzz (Shuan Kenney, Extreme Mortman, and Below the Beltway, to name a few). Conventional wisdom holds that Barr’s conservative record as a Republican [...]
Eric Dondero says:

April 6, 2008 at 9:12 am

Bob Barr will make a fine Libertarian Party Presidential candidate, perhaps the best ever, even eclipsing Ed Clark’s high water mark of nearly 1 million votes (1.1%) in 1980.

Problem is the Party is in the grips of leftwing Anti-War Libertarians (many outright Anarchists), thes days. Most of the Pro-Defense wing has left for the GOP into the Republican Liberty Caucus, Club for Growth, ect…

Barr will get a substantial vote among just the hardcore Libertarian set – base of about 500,000.

But if he hopes to increase that into the millions, he’ll need to walk a fine line on foreign policy, careful not to run away Pro-Defense libertarians who might be inclined to vote for him.

Just today we learn of yet another report about to be released showing how the Surge in Iraq has been a stunning success since September.

If Barr takes the Ron Paul non-interventionist/pacifist line and claims that the War is a “failure” he’ll end up looking foolish and run off a great many potential libertarian Republican supporters.

Bob Barr Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee