Below The Beltway

Charlie Fugate will be hosting a Live Blog with Derrick Barr, son of Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Bob Barr, and a spokesperson for the campaign on Wednesday July 2nd at 6pm.
You can submit questions here.

A great video from the guys at Barr/Root `08:

No, we don’t need to know what’s on Barack Obama’s iPod.
Although I will say that the lack of any Sinatra, Nat Cole, or Ella Fitzgerald and the presence of the always pretentious Sheryl Crow takes the guy down several pegs in my book

Crystal Clear Conservative has found a Presidential candidate we can all support:
Most of my friends have been placing bets on who I would endorse for President of the United States.  My polling has shown that 60% said that Bob Barr was my choice, 25% said Chuck Baldwin, and the best stat of all was that […]

The whitest guy in America says Barack Obama isn’t black enough:
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader accused Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic Party nominee, of downplaying poverty issues, trying to “talk white” and appealing to “white guilt” during his run for the White House.
Nader, a thorn in the Democratic Party’s side since the 2000 presidential […]

Gordon Smith is a Republican Senator from Oregon and here is his rather extraordinary ad:

If that’s not a sign that the down-ticket knows that the GOP is in trouble this year, I don’t know what is.

They don’t necessarily mean a thing:
As hard as it may be to believe, Michael Dukakis (left) was leading the first George Bush by an average of 8.2 percent in June of 1988. Bush went on to win the general election by 7.8 points.
Mr Bush led the relatively unknown Bill Clinton by 4.9 percent In June […]

Bob Barr explains once again why he’s a Libertarian now:
Government has taken so much power and is exercising so much power over our lives to an unprecedented degree that has caused myself, and I think a lot of other Americans, to sit down and say, “let’s hold on just a minute here.”
So what 9/11 and […]

Further evidence that Georgia’s 15 Electoral Votes may be in play thanks to a guy named Bob Barr:
June 19, 2008 — A New InsiderAdvantage / PollPosition survey conducted June 18 of registered likely voters in the November presidential contest shows Sen. John McCain leading Sen. Barack Obama by a single point in Georgia, making the […]

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 […]