Wherein I describe the reason that neither Barack Obama nor John McCain will get my vote in November:
I am through with voting for the lesser to two evils. I don’t like Barack Obama, but I equally despise John McCain for his flip-flopping, his hypocrisy, and his contempt for the First Amendment. I said more than two years ago, before he even announced that he was running, that I would never vote for him and I intend to stick by that.
For me, voting for John McCain would be “throwing away” my vote as much as voting for Obama would be.
So basically there’s nothing that either of these guys could do to earn my vote.
It started with McCain-Feingold, then McCain-Feingold, now it ends with his stupidity on the economy. McCain has never and will not get a vote from me.
Obama is a pure socialist to the core and his foreign policy scares me. I have to vote no for Obama as well.
Barr/Root in 2008 feels too good to pass up with the way the field looks right now.
Don’t forget McCain-Kennedy.
McCain-Liebermann
Pretty much anything with the name McCain in it.
Well, except for Megan McCain
Sorry, the first one was supposed to be McCain-Kennedy. I could not believe a Senator from Arizona (border state) would have an immigration policy that would make Arizona a state of Mexico. Being from the South (Texas), that hits home a little too hard.
Doug,
Can you give a realistic assessment of Barr’s chances of overcoming McCain? If at all possible, how might he do it? I don’t see anything stellar about his web site and he obviously doesn’t have the funds that McCain has.
Oath,
Based on the polling we’re seeing so far, Barr is doing far better than any Libertarian Party candidate ever has at any point in a Presidential race. Granted, “far better” doesn’t mean much when you consider the fact that the best the LP has done was back in 1980 when their Presidential candidate got just under 1 million votes — a number that arguably would have been larger but for the presence of John Anderson in the race, by the way — but, still its something.
More important, I think, is the fact that Barr seems positioned to be a factor in at least two states in the South — North Carolina and Georgia — and could end up being the factor that tilts the election away from McCain.
Is Bob Barr going to win in November ? Highly unlikely
Could he do well enough to send a message to the Republicans (and Democrats) that they are ignoring a sizeable, and important, block of voters ? I think so.