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DEL.ICIO.USBarr campaign to white supremacists: ‘Don’t let the door hit you on the way out’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Libertarian blogs are reporting that Bob Barr is having it out with the same group of white supremacists who sullied Ron Paul’s Republican presidential campaign.
A pair of web sites, including something called Stormfront.org, on Monday ran an endorsement of Barr by James Buchanan:
“A vote for Bob Barr would at least send a message to the Republican Party that conservatives and Whites won’t sit still as they are stuck with a liberal presidential candidate like McCain.”
David Weigel at Reason.com offers this bit of essential background on Libertarian politics, and why that endorsement struck a nerve:
One of the bigger media blunders the Ron Paul campaign made was its handling of endorsements from the bigots at Stormfront. White nationalists slithered around the fringes of the Paul movement, and Paul refused to return a donation from Stormfronter Don Black on the grounds that he’d rather the money be spent on the Paul campaign than spent by racists.
Thirdpartywatch.com reports Barr campaign manager Russ Verney is having none of it. He immediately issued this statement:
”The Barr campaign is not going to be a vehicle for every fringe and hate group to promote itself.
“We do not want and will not accept the support of haters. Tell the haters I said don’t let the door hit you on the backside on your way out!
“Anyone with love in their heart for our country and for every resident of our country regardless of race, religion, nationality or sexual orientation is welcome with open arms.”
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By James
June 2, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
Doesn’t Stormfront know Bob Barr himself is half african american. This would be a good time for Barr to talk about his african american heritage and say how foolish that Stormfront is for supporting him when in fact he himself is a minority. Ask Stormfront do they still support me now knowing I am half african american. Barr can show how foolish Stormfront is. Barr should be open about his african american heritage and be proud of it instead of trying to hide it.
By stephanie
June 2, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this
R. Barr will never be a good choice for America. This man is ignorant to the overspending of our fed. He is a firm backer in the war on drugs, and says there is no evidence that medical marijuana can be bennificial, and the recipients of the M.M. are only usung illness as an exuse to use drugs! Go read a book dude!!
By JTRC
June 2, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this
who gives a s** about bob barr
By Shane Savoie
June 2, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this
Apparently Stephanie is unfamiliar with the concept of learning from one’s mistakes and trying to rectify problems they’ve created out of their ignorance. Barr has changed his world-view so dramatically in the last couple years I can understand why many are skeptical. It’s called “personal growth”, kids. Get some!
By Matthew Barnes
June 2, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this
Stephanie, I think you are wrong. I am a Libertarian and was VERY skeptical of Bob Barr. I have learned that since he left the GOP he has worked as a paid lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project. You are repeating arguments I hear circulating in the rumor mill.
I recognize that people change learn and grow. As a believer in liberty I know that truth, justice and the american way are winning concepts and I think Bob Barr has been overwhelmed and won over by the plain truth.
Regardless of his record while working as a party of the Republican machine, I am more than willing to believe that if he is brave enough to jump from the safe harbor of an estabished party to the Libertarian Party, he is brave enough to own up to his blunders against freedom and work within the Libertarian framework.
By DustoneGT
June 2, 2008 8:00 PM | Link to this
Did you hear about that guy Paul in the Bible? OMG, he is a total slave of the establishment. He ran around for years persecuting the Christians.
There’s no way any self-respecting Christian can trust Paul.
Yeah, people never change! People never learn from their mistakes or revise their views!
But seriously…what is up with the way people view politicans in American today?
In our own lives we hate people who are overly stubborn or never learn or change, but we think our politicians must have always had the same views.
If our politicians change their minds at all we call them ‘flip-floppers’.
By James
June 2, 2008 8:00 PM | Link to this
smart move by the Barr campaign!
By Hickery
June 2, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this
Wel Bob Bar wil not, git my vott and he just probley loss the hole state heer in Georgia. now.
He 1 big fool on this isyou. My frends hate McCane and wanted to vott fer Barr butt now we cant’ vott fer Barr neether.
By nathan
June 2, 2008 9:22 PM | Link to this
Did that guy up there quote the intro to Superman? That’s awesome/
By Doug Craig
June 2, 2008 9:58 PM | Link to this
looks Like Barr might do all right. Did you see he is polling 8% in Georgia and 6% in N.C.. Join the team www.bobbarr2008.com
By Grand Dragon
June 2, 2008 10:17 PM | Link to this
I am here to tell you all that we’s don’t likes the likes of that there Ron Paul guy. He is too much in favor of freedom for all them there individuals. We all wants the blacks and jews to stand out as a “group” so people will hate them likes we do. No, Ron Paul isn’t one of us’in. He is for the Constitution. We wants McCain! He be a true Nazi! Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.
By Churchill
June 2, 2008 10:27 PM | Link to this
Ru Paul is a boob.
By Paul Ru
June 2, 2008 10:53 PM | Link to this
Churchill is a pud
By Stew
June 2, 2008 11:20 PM | Link to this
Go Bob Barr! He is our only conservative choice. Barr taking votes away from Mccain and costing him the election will be the best thing for the right and will teach us a lesson. I am voting for Bob Barr!
By Stew
June 2, 2008 11:21 PM | Link to this
I am voting for Bob Barr!
By Jack
June 3, 2008 12:01 AM | Link to this
Bob Barr’s Bargain is the way to go…
http://www.nolanchart.com/article3959.html
Spread the word!
By Jared
June 3, 2008 12:55 AM | Link to this
Get lost (Ward?) Churchill.
Ron Paul is a heck of a better guy than the three stooges (McCain, Clinton and Obama). I am proud to have voted for him in the Georgia republican presidential primary.
My vote in November goes to Bob Barr since Paul ain’t going to run as a third-party or independent presidential candidate in 2008.
By nick
June 3, 2008 1:33 AM | Link to this
Who is Barr? Why his apparent “stand” against so-called white supremacists?
I think it would be wise to understand that the unpublic powers that own McCain, Clinton and at the least controls Obama, do not look kindly upon the Ron Paul phenomonen and the man himself.
Rule and divide has worked for this group of people for a very long time - as has controlling the path of humanity to controlled events of chaos: i.e. problem-recation-solution.
Why has Barr copied Paul’s message? And why is he know using it to created discord - where Paul previously succeeded in bringing peple together.
Why has Barr not copied this one particular slogan from Paul?
“Freedom brings people together”
By Aus4RP
June 3, 2008 3:54 AM | Link to this
The same people who call us “supremacists” are the same who said Ron Paul was a racist, Jew hater that “could never win”
Get your head at from out of your behind. The only haters are those who want to scare people out of being free to choose. The real fascists.
We’ll continue to support who we damn well like.
By Aus4RP
June 3, 2008 4:03 AM | Link to this
To James June 2, 2008
We are well versed on the backgrounds of most people. Unlike what you may think, Stormfront chooses the best candidate that will uphold the American constitution and end the criminal Reserve Bank and foreign entanglements.
Whoever that may be. Don’t imply we are too uneducated to understand policy or are just ignorant and vote because of race. Being white isn’t a free-pass. Although, like all racial groups we do vote for the person who will benefit our group most.
Whether directly or indirectly.
Thank you.
By Roman
June 3, 2008 6:28 AM | Link to this
Well, so much for inclusion and “diversity” of thought.
By Churchill
June 3, 2008 7:51 AM | Link to this
Ru Paul did not win, Aus4RP.
By Jonathan
June 3, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this
Good for Bob Barr. Ron Paul opened his arms to white supremiscist but not Barr ! Pleae donate www.bobbarr2008.com
By Earl
June 3, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this
Such idiots! No one is voting for Bob Barr. Face it, you and I have about as much chance of winning this as Barr does and we’re not on the ballot. You’re not voting for Barr, you’re voting for either McCain or Obama when you vote for Barr. The man doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell of winning.
By ElbinoBunny
June 3, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
Bob Barr, don’t be hatin’. :(
By Matt
June 3, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
When you vote for Bob Barr you are voting for Bob Barr. Just like when you are eating steak your are eating steak. Just like when you are playing football, you are not playing soccer or tennis. It is no more and no less complex than that.
The only idiot is the one that throws their vote away on McCain or Obillary because they wanted to tell their friends they voted for a winner. If bragging rights were a part of voting, it wouldn’t be done in secret.
When you realize you are going to lose with no action… only the most cowardly cover up their broad yellow streak with the wasted vote argument. Because, all it takes is a few men brave enough to lose, in order to win.
By Carl L.
June 3, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this
Well, I’m glad Bob Barr decided to insult us before I sent him a campaign contribution. He doesn’t have to tell me “not to let the door hit me on the posterior on the way out”; I won’t be going in the door in the first place.
I guess that leaves either Chuck Baldwin or John Taylor Bowles to support. But now that Bob Barr has decided to declare preemptive war on the white nationalist community, I’ll also be working to expose him as the opportunistic flip-flopper that he really is.
By Barry Dively
June 3, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
Barr is a good man and has my vote. It just took him a while longer to see his poor decisions of the past.
I welcome him as my candidate with open arms.
Go Barr / Root
By JMDrake
June 3, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this
Barr just signed his own surrender notice. The fact is that white america is tired of being overrun. Ron Paul is the only way to go. Write Ron Paul in and send a message that white america has a voice.
By Robert
June 3, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this
It is nice to know that an individuals rights to free association and self-determination stops at Bob Barr’s door, simply for being a White Male who is a member of the Stormfront White Nationalist Community.
The ignorance of the Barr Campaign regarding the accusation that the nearly 150,000+ member Stormfront community are “White Supremacists” is laughable.
That is about as ludicrous as the claim that Bob Barr is a Libertarian.
By Bitter EX democrackkk
June 4, 2008 7:10 AM | Link to this
Millions of voters will be writing in RON PAUL, the ONLY conservative candidate. McCaint is pitiful.
By Babar
June 6, 2008 12:01 AM | Link to this
Babar for president! I’m not voting for McCain-Kennedy-Feingold.
By Babar
June 6, 2008 12:05 AM | Link to this
Babar for president! I’m not voting for McCain-Feingold-Kennedy!
By beth
June 6, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this
i was a member of the LP, but i can not support a candidate who is for the drug war, and can not support someone who is anticonstitution.
By Kwix
June 6, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this
beth, If you still think Barr is for the War on Drugs, I suggest you watch his interview on the Colbert Report from June 4, 2008. It can be found here: http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?episodeId=170987
By Freedomexplo
June 8, 2008 6:09 AM | Link to this
I’m a member of Stormfront, and you would never find a single post of mine ever that could be considered as bigoted.
I guess it’s guilt by asossiation. How very constitutional of you.
By Spencer
June 9, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
You should know by now if your caucasian and proud of your culture,your a racist!!!Vote Obama!! that way we can say, told you so!! ECWU(GOOGLE IT)!!
By g
June 18, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this
God bless Stromfront!
I find it really funny that Bob Barr has attacked Stormfront. Never has Stormfront donanted money to Bob Barrs camp. Never has SF ever endorsed Bob Barr. I suggest this biggoted anti-white slandering news of a great site like Stormfront shut its mouth.
A little to one sided for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Oh no its not one sided thats how the black majority racist news papers act.
They can spew their garbage and biggoted news all they want. You can’t beat the fact your news is as pro-black/anti-white as the majority of blacks who live in Atalanta are. You can’t hide behind a paper in the rain and not exspect water to leak threw.
You can’t throw lies around and not be willing to get whats comeing to ya. Never has Stormfront endorsed any one or given Bob Barr money.
By MadMatt2022
September 27, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this
As a proud WHITE man, excuse me, I mean as a proud member of the HATER race, I was not planning on voting for this fool anyway.
Good luck with your 0.3% ole’ Bobby Boy.
Proud SF member, and nowhere near as hateful as Bob Barr or his staff.
By MadMatt2022
September 27, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this
As a proud WHITE man, excuse me, I mean as a proud member of the HATER race, I was not planning on voting for this fool anyway.
Good luck with your 0.3% ole’ Bobby Boy.
Proud SF member, and nowhere near as hateful as Bob Barr or his staff.