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:

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 […]

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Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr talked with the Washington Post about his campaign and what’s wrong with the Republican Party:
Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, offered a scathing critique of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) today and predicted he would garner substantial conservative Republican support in a handful of battleground states critical to McCain in […]

Here’s video of Bob Barr’s recent appearance on CSPAN’s Washington Journal:

George Will takes John McCain to task for his recent statement that last week’s Gitmo ruling from the Supreme Court was the “worst decision in history”:
The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the […]

With Ron Paul formally ending his Presidential campaign and focusing on promoting libertarian-oriented candidates in the Republican party, the question worth looking at now is what happens to Paul’s supporters. While they might not necessarily be large in number, they have an enthusiasm that you don’t always see in politics.
But, will they last beyond the […]

A self-professed partisan Democrat diagnosis quite well the choice that the Republican Party faces on a local, state, and national level:
Republicans have a serious problem on their hands, and it’s one of their own creation. While mouthing the long time conservative claim of being for limited government, respecting the Constitution, and hewing to fiscal conservatism, […]