The Sideshow
by Jon on Nov.05, 2008, under Babble, Politics
It looks like Barr — the real politician with all that experience and groovy gravitas that was supposed to put the Libertarian Party on the map — got about 480K votes, about 100K more than the unknown party insider Michael Badnarik got last time around, and about what Harry Browne did in 1996.
So, yeah, selling their souls to an ex-CIA homophobic drug warrior on an ego trip worked out real well.
Oh, and remember how the LP thought Bob Barr was too important to debate Ralph Nader? Well at about 650K votes, Nader cleaned their clocks again. In fact his vote was up about 200K from last time. (I haven’t found McKinney’s results yet, but I’m going to guess she was probably down from Cobb’s run last time due to being on fewer ballots, and that’s probably where a lot of those 200K came from.)
November 5th, 2008 on 3:55 pm
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November 6th, 2008 on 6:15 am
I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Barr. In the nineties he represented everything that was wrong with the GOP.
Instead, I voted for McCain for the same reason I voted for Dole. Out of pity.
November 6th, 2008 on 7:22 am
Heh.
Yeah, it absolutely boggled my mind when the LP took Barr on (as an LNC member a couple of years back) after trying to take credit for ousting him. He’s garbage! Throw the bum out! So we can have him!
November 6th, 2008 on 9:06 am
In libertarian circles it is very hard to find the right person who has ascended the nolan chart and understands both the fiscal right and the social left and stands at the top with the support of both sides. Bob was not the right guy by any stretch of the imagination.
November 7th, 2008 on 5:01 pm
My favorite part was when I saw that Daniel Lewis hada about a thousand more votes in Tennessee than Barr got … just about the number of us who voted for Charles Jay/TomKnapp and the Boston Tea Party, now clearly the only “libertarian” alternative out there!
On another subject, anyone a bit terrified by the cult-worshipper glazed eyes so visible in the crowd in Chicago Tuesday night?