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Bob Barr:The Vanguard Of Libertarian Relevance

by @ 12:17 pm on August 27, 2008.

Bob Barr appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show last night, here’s the video:

And, this morning, he appeared on CNN’s American Morning:

I’ll say this much for Barr. He is running a smart, much more media savvy campaign than any Libertarian Party Presidential candidate before him. For that reason alone, I think that the odds are fairly good that he will go a long way toward accomplishing the goals that Reason’s David Weigel laid out in this article:

The challenge for Barr and the reformers is to deliver on their promises: to score a record vote total, to grow the party’s membership, and to force the two big parties to pay attention. They need to prove that libertarians can do more than form a protest bloc in the GOP or think-tank their way into the mainstream of politics and policy. If they pull that off, the Libertarian Party could reach unprecedented heights.

So far, I’d say it’s looking good.

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