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Poll finds Barr siphoning votes from McCain
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
While a poll released late Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg showed Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr drawing only 3 percent support, the data show that much of that is coming at the expense of Republican candidate John McCain.
The new national poll shows McCain trailing Democrat Barack Obama 37 percent to 49 percent when the race is just between the two major party candidates. But when Barr, a former Georgia congressman, and independent candidate Ralph Nader are added to the mix, Obama’s margin jumps to 15 percentage points, 48 percent to 33 percent.
Unfortunately for Barr, he trails Nader in the poll. The former Green Party candidate gets the support of 4 percent in the poll of more than 1,100 registered voters nationwide.
But Barr is continuing to gain media attention, which could result in a rise in the polls. He’s been on CNN in the past week and his campaign announced late Tuesday that he would be on ABC’s weekly political program “This Week,” on Sunday, July 6.
That will be perhaps his most high-profile media appearance yet.
—Aaron Gould Sheinin
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Comments
By Glenn
June 25, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
I’m a regular-GOP voter voting for Barr this year. John McCain is a 1990s democrat, not a republican, at all. The GOP really screwed up not choosing Fred, Mitt, or Huck.
By Copyleft
June 25, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
Understandable. The Green Party is closer to the Democrtic position, and the Libertarian Party is more right-wing. No surprises there. The only question is how much attention the smaller third parties will get this election cycle.
By The Truth Comes Out
June 25, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Glenn a vote for Barr is a vote for Obama. You should pick the LESSER of 2 evils.
By Politics Aside
June 25, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
What color is Bob Barr? (he’s a caucasian american). Well, there you go. that explains it. Now we know. Figures right in.
The Axles of Weasel: This whole economic and geo-political oil price nightmare is caused by the Axles of Weasels: GM, Ford, and Chrysler, and their lobbied success in not improving our legislated MPG requirements. They weaseled their way out of it.
That’s treason. I say we prosecute the CEO’s and anyone directly responsible for it.
Let’s destroy the Axles of Weasels!!
Lets destroy the Axles of Weasels!!
Uh, that’d be gm,ford, and chrysler CEO’s and upper mgt and the lobbyist who bribed and anyone else I hate.
Destroy the Axles of Weasels! (they’re shouting it in cleveland. they’re shouting it in miami)
We could be using HALF the gasoline we use if GM, FORD and CHRYSLER had obeyed our legislation.
That’s a fact.
Destroy the Axles of Weasel. Tell everyone you know. Start an chain email! Yell it out your windows!!
Destroy the Axles of Weasel!!!
By Jeff
June 25, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
Truth:
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
I choose to vote for someone I would actually WANT to be in the Oval Office.
And that man is Bob Barr.
Libertarian 08!
By Dan
June 25, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
McCain will have the border fence built. Obama wants to stop all border fence construction.
McCain is for second amendment rights. Obama called DC handgun ban constitutional.
Obama is a marxist.
Bob Barr can’t win. A vote for Barr is a vote for a marxist President Obama.
To Glenn, the future of the supreme court is at stake for the next 40 years. Stop this insanity with Bob Barr.
To Jeff, Barr has himself admitted he can’t win. All Barr is doing is trying to help Obama. In 2004 the libertarians voted to help pay for Kerry’s recount.
The dems will have 60 senate seats, 300 house seats. It is imperative for McCain to be there to veto all the pork the dems propose.
Stop the madness and vote to reject Obama.
By Dan
June 25, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
McCain will have the border fence built. Obama wants to stop all border fence construction.
McCain is for second amendment rights. Obama called DC handgun ban constitutional.
Obama is a marxist.
Bob Barr can’t win. A vote for Barr is a vote for a marxist President Obama.
To Glenn, the future of the supreme court is at stake for the next 40 years. Stop this insanity with Bob Barr.
To Jeff, Barr has himself admitted he can’t win. All Barr is doing is trying to help Obama. In 2004 the libertarians voted to help pay for Kerry’s recount.
The dems will have 60 senate seats, 300 house seats. It is imperative for McCain to be there to veto all the pork the dems propose.
Stop the madness and vote to reject Obama.
By Dan
June 25, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
McCain will have the border fence built. Obama wants to stop all border fence construction.
McCain is for second amendment rights. Obama called DC handgun ban constitutional.
Obama is a marxist.
Bob Barr can’t win. A vote for Barr is a vote for a marxist President Obama.
To Glenn, the future of the supreme court is at stake for the next 40 years. Stop this insanity with Bob Barr.
To Jeff, Barr has himself admitted he can’t win. All Barr is doing is trying to help Obama. In 2004 the libertarians voted to help pay for Kerry’s recount.
The dems will have 60 senate seats, 300 house seats. It is imperative for McCain to be there to veto all the pork the dems propose.
Stop the madness and vote to reject Obama.
By Dan
June 25, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
McCain will have the border fence built. Obama wants to stop all border fence construction.
McCain is for second amendment rights. Obama called DC handgun ban constitutional.
Obama is a marxist.
Bob Barr can’t win. A vote for Barr is a vote for a marxist President Obama.
To Glenn, the future of the supreme court is at stake for the next 40 years. Stop this insanity with Bob Barr.
To Jeff, Barr has himself admitted he can’t win. All Barr is doing is trying to help Obama. In 2004 the libertarians voted to help pay for Kerry’s recount.
The dems will have 60 senate seats, 300 house seats. It is imperative for McCain to be there to veto all the pork the dems propose.
Stop the madness and vote to reject Obama.
By The Truth Comes Out
June 25, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
Amen all four times Dan!
By Lily Toad
June 25, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this
Vote for who you want to win. If we don’t vote for smaller parties they will stay small and won’t have a chance to give the voters a real choice.
By Politics Aside
June 25, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
What color is Bob Barr? (he’s a caucasian american). Well, there you go. that explains it. Now we know. Figures right in.
The Axles of Weasel: This whole economic and geo-political oil price nightmare is caused by the Axles of Weasels: GM, Ford, and Chrysler, and their lobbied success in not improving our legislated MPG requirements. They weaseled their way out of it.
Obama 08: 4 the Access of People to stop the Axles of Weasel from dancing to the Axis of Evil’s tune.
By RationalDan
June 25, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this
A vote for McCain is a vote rewarding him for his anti-1st Amendment McCain-Feingold bill, and is a vote rewarding the GOP for its alarmingly good mimicry of the Democrats concerning expanded government spending and debt. And let’s not forget the McCain-Obama position on NOT drilling in Anwar.
By Copyleft
June 25, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this
I would never endorse voting for the “lesser of two evils.” To say that voting for Barr is somehow robbing McCain assumes that McCain rightfully “owns” your vote and that Barr is trying to steal it.
But he doesn’t have a prior claim to your vote. Like every candidate, he has to EARN it. And if he doesn’t, McCain has only himself to blame.
By Tom Ga Hunter
June 25, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
Dan ………I am also worried about the PORK from the RHINOes, how about Saxby’s $60,000,000,000 of prrk in the”farm” bill, you know the 1 W vetoed & the Rhinoes over rode. This stupid saying a vote, for Barr is a vote for Obama is nonsense, If you are only interested in voting for a winner you’d vote for Obama directly after all he’s 15 points ahead of “4 more years”.
By Jeff
June 25, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
Dan (all 4 times.. seriously dude, repeat after me ‘I will only hit the Post button ONCE.’):
I AM rejecting Obama.
I am ALSO rejecting McCain, as he is nothing more than Obama-Light.
Bob Barr IS ‘Liberty for America’ and TRUE ‘Change we can believe in’. (Sorry, don’t know McCain’s slogan or I would twist it against him as well!)
By Churchill
June 25, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
A vote for Barr is a vote for Obama. Did you all learn nothing from Perot? If it were not for those idiot “protest” voters, we would have never been saddled with the Clinton’s. What is wrong with you people? The libs want Barr to do well. That should tell you everything.
By Red Leader
June 25, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
A vote for Amnesty Mccain is a vote for Obama. May I encourage all the true conservatives out there to stay away from Mccain anti-American stances. All it will do is split the Republican vote, since Mccain is more of a 3rd party big govt ANTI-republican.The man is a liberal democrat period. Pre-emptive war and amnesty are NOT traditional conservative stances. Sorry to break it to you. Ron Paul was really the only Republican running this year, but since the GOP and Mccain have decided to derail and take a MASSIVE detour away from Republicanism I have no choice but to stick with my principles and conservatism. So Bob Barr it is.
By Red Leader
June 25, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
Mccain also supports communist/socialist ideas…he has yet to speak out against the FCC,DEA,the federal reserve,federal board of education and many many more centralized govt ideas and agencies. Don’t by his BS rhetoric. Mccain will not come out AGAINST communism and the scarey thing is a lot of people actually think he is a conservative or a republican. Listen VERY carefully to his speeches…he has no want to reduce the size of govt…he list NO agencies that he wishes to eliminate, he wants to provide military welfare to the planet…the man obviously thinks Soviet style nation building is a good idea. Wake up conservatives…realize that Mccain vs Obama is simply liberal socialism vs liberal socialism. That’s just cold hard fact.
By Hopeful
June 25, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
McCain is just like Bush, only more feeble. There should be an age limit for Presidents.
By Politics Aside
June 25, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
During our Civil war in the 1860’s the yankees took axes to the south’s boweeveled cotton industry.
Obama 08: He’s the fruition of the sacrifices the yankees made when they took axes to boweevelists 4 the Access of People to stop the Axles of Weasels from dancing to the Axis of Evil’s tune!
By Cryos
June 25, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
“What color is Bob Barr? (he’s a caucasian american). Well, there you go. that explains it.”
“The Green Party is closer to the Democrtic position, and the Libertarian Party is more right-wing.”
Lol typical liberal type statements. I find it amusing how the liberals have become what they claim conservatives are; unquestionable, intolerant, racist and faith based. Their god is the media and eutopian ideals rather than religion.
I don’t like a lot of McCain policies but honestly no other republican candidate stood a chance this election. With the increasingly blatent media bias against republicans and any policy thats not ultra liberal the sheep of America would never vote in an authentic fiscal and social conservative. At this point the majority of Americans have been trained to regurgitate garbage from mainstream media and are pretty much incapable of thinking for themselves. They put more thought into reality tv shows and shows like American Idol than anything that matters.
By Cryos
June 25, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
Lol Politics aside it sounds like you need to stop drinking the koolaid and start taking medication.
By Politics Aside
June 25, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
Trols are trying to drown me out with pointless prattle. Like when I complained about the axing of legals a few years ago, in midterm.
Readers: dont let the troll’s axioms of drivel let you forget about bush’s axing of legals or the sacrifices the yankees made when they took axes to boweevelists for the access of people to stop the axles of weasels from dancing to the axis of evil’s tune!
Cause if you do, we’re finished.
By Parker
June 25, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Let’s be honest here: McCain can not beat Obama. McCain is slipping in the polls because he is too old (and will just keep getting older) and too slow, and probably a bit unbalanced. And McCain was NOT the choice of Republicans in the primaries, he consistently had about 2/3 of Republicans voting against him, but the better candidates split the vote enough to let McCain get 33% in South Carolina and 33% in Missouri, and win those states despite the 2/3 opposition.
Come September, conservatives are going to wake up and realize that McCain is already done, and the only thing standing between America and a President Obama is getting behind Bob Barr!!
By Tom Ga Hunter
June 25, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
By Churchill ………are you off your meds, you had a little intellence yesterday.. Are you taking math in summer school?? If not the 3 points that Barr is getting is gives Obama a 15 point lead, if McCain had these 3 points he would still be 12 points behind (15-3=12). The Rhino party’s problem is too many like Saxby “What’s IN It For” me Chambliss not Bob Barr.. Be nice to YOUR mom & study hard.
By Tom Ga Hunter
June 25, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
By Churchill ………are you off your meds, you had a little intellence yesterday.. Are you taking math in summer school?? If not the 3 points that Barr is getting is gives Obama a 15 point lead, if McCain had these 3 points he would still be 12 points behind (15-3=12). The Rhino party’s problem is too many like Saxby “What’s IN It For Me” Chambliss not Bob Barr.. Be nice to YOUR mom & study hard.
By gttim
June 25, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
It is imperative for McCain to be there to veto all the pork the dems propose.
Are you on drugs? Pork spending has gone through the roof every year the GOP controlled the House. They controlled everything for 6 years and pork spending hit record levels! The GOP is about pork! They want all their corporate buddies to get as much taxpayer money as possible. They just want to be damn sure that no poor children get food and schooling! Every life is sacred until it is born!
By Michael
June 25, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this
I believe the best Presidential candidate to help solve our problems especially the economy & the Iraq War is Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin (www.baldwin2008.com)
Michael B. Rockville, Maryland
By betty boop
June 25, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
Amazing. Truth Out, “two evils” is the truth and why do you want to vote for the lesser evil? Betty Boop
PS - You go Bobby
By Elias
June 25, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
Vote for the lesser of two evils? No thanks. I’ve been a GOP member for a long time and voting for Bob Barr. Anyway the lesser of two evils would be Obama, but I can’t stomach the thought of voting for him. The GOP needs to learn to get back to its roots - tax cuts, small government, and not invading other countries without a damn good reason.
By Glenn
June 25, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
McCain is NOT a friend to the Second Amendment, Gunowners of America has given him an F-
Bob Barr has never admitted he can’t win, and if he has, sources please.
As for the “a vote for Barr is a vote for Obama,” cut the crap. A vote for McCain is a vote for a democrat too. McCain is no better than the 1992 version of Bill Clinton. The guy is the epitome of the term RINO. He’s not for the border fence, or maybe he is, what day is it? He’s not for amnesty for illegals, or is he? Again, what day is it?! He is for cap-and-trade tax and blame global warming on mankind. McCain is an IDIOT. Outside of Barr, our only hope is McCant’s elected and dies before Jan 20 so his VP can become the President.
By Glenn
June 25, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
Michael - Good for you! Don’t succomb to the idiots who say “a vote for [third-party] is a vote for Obama!” McCain didn’t have a chance from the moment he entered the race and the GOP chose the wrong candidate, flat out. The guy is Obama-lite and Bill Clinton^2.
By Churchill (d)
June 25, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
Comprehensivist Down! In 2006, the primary victory of GOP Rep. Chris Cannon was offered by many pundits as comforting evidence that the immigration issue didn’t have legs. After all, Cannon had supported “comprehensive” immigration reform—including legalization (i.e. semi-amnesty)—yet he survived in a conservative Utah district. Here’s Michael Barone two years ago:
If Cannon had lost, House Republicans surely would have panicked and stonewalled any approach but border-security-only. But his victory — and the fact that he ran ads with endorsements from George W. Bush, who supports a comprehensive bill — indicates that his positions are not political death, even in a district that went 77 percent to 20 percent Republican in the 2004 presidential election
Well, yesterday Cannon lost— to a fellow Republican who had no paid staff or polling but did attack Cannon’s support of “amnesty.” And Cannon lost by a large margin (60-40) primarily because he “failed to generate the kind of [Republican primary] turnout typically enjoyed by House incumbents.” …
Hmm. As if by eerie coincidence, John McCain has been having trouble generating the kind of popularity among Republicans typically enjoyed by Republican presidential candidates! And he’s also been pushing “comprehensive” reform of late, potentially winning Latino support but further jeopardizing his GOP support. Kausfiles notes that there are more Republicans than Latinos. If McCain win’s an extra 10% of Latino voters but loses an extra 10% of Republican voters, he loses, right? Maybe on his forthcoming trip to Mexico he will do the math. .
By betty boop
June 25, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this
Gttim, honey, McCain voted for that bridge to nowhere in Alaska, remember. That was a definite OINK, OINK all Repugnican Pork Pie. Pork is nothing new to him, he’s greasy up to his armpits with his Repugnican sty-mates.
Let’s remember the money sliding through GOP hands from the lobbyists and how defense contractors like Haliburton (VP’s private pork barrel) have thrown away billions of your tax dollars on a war they lied to get us into while the Bush family rakes in billions in oil — just as slippery as pork.
Betty Boop ain’t going for that ride again. McCain is same old same old and just old, greasy, slippery and slipped. Americans have more sense.
Betty Boop
By Mike Angwin
June 25, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
Ah yes, the old “lesser of two evils” mantra used to justify the crime of voting for evil. It is this myopic mindset that assures the best years of this nation are behind us and that liberty and the American drean will be lost for all time.
You will not change where we are headed by electing the same people over and ovre again. Please don’t vote against America and if you feel you must stay home. The only right vote is an honest vote an my honest for for what is right for the future of American will be for Bob Barr, not for evil.
By Anthony
June 25, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this
If a vote for Barr is a vote for Obama, is a vote for Obama 2 votes for Obama? This sounds like new math.
By Nathan, FL
June 25, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this
I too am a registered Republican who has supported Ron Paul throughout the primaries, and am pleased to know that his message is gaining traction. John McCain will not have my vote in the general election. I will be voting for Bob Barr.
By Nathan, FL
June 25, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
I too am a registered Republican who has supported Ron Paul throughout the primaries, and am pleased to know that his message is gaining traction. John McCain will not have my vote in the general election. I will be voting for Bob Barr.
By You lost me....
June 25, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
The Libertarian “live and let live” philosophy has a lot going for it in these days of being taxed and regulated to death. Aren’t we all sick of it? But OH, GOLLY GEE ya lost me when you said government should stay out of people’s private lives UNLESS YOU’RE PREGNANT, and then you’re no longer allowed to make decisions about your own body. WHA???? Sexist hypocrites.
By Steve Dasbach
June 25, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Dan wrote:
“A vote for Barr is a vote for a marxist President Obama.”
Sorry, doesn’t work that way. I’m voting for Barr and there is no way I would ever vote for McCain.
If you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose between McCain and Obama, I’d pick Obama.
I know McCain would be a disaster as President — with Obama, I merely suspect that he would be terrible.
Go Bob Barr!
By betty boop
June 25, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
Have mercy. I was not surprised when rabid Repugnicans played the race card like trumps in bridge. But the commie card — come on boys, how low (not to mention how stupid) can you go. Of course you seem to be applying that same epithet to McCain as well. Maybe you all re just equal opportunity haters. But, you are not foolin Betty and you are not foolin the votersl. Georgia is going blue, bright blue, Democratic Blue.
Of course, if you want to, we could actually talk about the issues. I don’t think it would help you; but, we could try.
Betty Boop
By Eric Dondero
June 25, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
I’m a Republican for Barr.
There is actually an outside shot he could win this race. If he breaks into the 15 to 20% poll number range like Perot ‘92, anything could happen. You could then seen McCain’s support evaporate, and Republicans shifting to Barr en masse.
Remember, Barr’s Campaign Manager is former Perot Mngr. Russ Verney.
This Barr race is for real guys and gals. Give it a few weeks. We’ll have a 3-way race.
By Sam1234
June 25, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
ObamaOsama is a Muslim. This country will never elect a muslim. He used to dress up like a terrorist for photo ops. I have seen the pictures.
By George Dance
June 25, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this
Dan: “McCain is for second amendment rights.”
Too bad he’s against first amendment rights.
A vote for McCain is a vote for McCain/Feingold (not to mention McCain/Kennedy.
By DaninMacon
June 25, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this
A vote for Barr is a vote for Obama.
By Churchill
June 25, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this
Keep trying, “By Tom GA Hunter,” you will eventually master that tricky post button. Idiot. Peace.
By betty boop
June 25, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this
Sam 1234, you get sillier and sillier. While Betty Boop enjoys a good laugh, you are laughable and not good. Keep on blogging honey. Like the million monkeys with the million typewriters you may actually form a thought.
You really ought to sue the school system that let you graduate. They did you a huge disservice.
Betty Boop suggests night classes, a shrink or medical assistance. OOps — I think the Repugnicans did away with a lot of the night school programs and I am pretty sure mental health services have been severely curtailed during the last eight years, and if you are not well insured, health service of any kind is not available. Too bad, so sad.
Betty Boop
By vanno
June 25, 2008 9:56 PM | Link to this
Who still stumps for McCain? Who won 8 states and would have won more with “winner take all” with just 12 million bucks? Who has 30 million rabid voters in his back pocket? Who is the most inspirational and intelligent public speaker in America? Who can sweep the Paul/Barr fans with the fairtax? Who do even alot of dems like because “he’s so darn nice”? Who’s about to get his own TV show?
HUCKABEE !!!!
By Michael Shanklin
June 26, 2008 12:04 AM | Link to this
Here’s the truth. I am a real conservative, Bob Barr…..you got my attention! McCain and Obama have too much corruption behind each one of them and they both pander to no end! Bob Barr at least explains the problems instead of showboating around them. Barr would destroy McCain and Obama in a debate as well. It’s easy to support liberty, unless your in a land of socialists! At least Barr has a clue on what is going on, the other two don’t and have been propped up through the political process. It is different in the libertarian party. More honesty, more to prove!
By Carol
June 26, 2008 12:55 AM | Link to this
It is quite impossible to determine who the lesser of evils is. McCain is evil. Obama is evil. So why, when you admit they are both evil, are you not doing like your forefathers and rebelling against this evil…?
I, for one, am not going to give my permission for more evil. I am going to vote for Liberty, like a red-blooded American with a spinal cord.
Bob Barr ‘08.
Those McCain voters who are convinced that my doing so will only ensure an Obama victory had best all vote for Barr too, hadn’t they…?
By Eric
June 26, 2008 1:07 AM | Link to this
A substantial number of Huckabee and Romney supporters have indicated they will only vote for McCain if he puts their guy as VP. Otherwisde they are ditching.
I agree with Parker. By September or October they are going to see that their only option is Bob Barr.
By David Myers
June 26, 2008 6:52 AM | Link to this
Remember when the polls said that Kerry was going to be President? So much for polls
By DaninMacon
June 26, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
Most of the country agrees that a vote for Barr is a vote for Obama.
By Copyleft
June 26, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this
Most of the country also thought Saddam was involved in 9/11.
By Michael
June 26, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
Thanks Glenn,
I’m doing what I can to help Chuck Baldwin (www.baldwin2008.com) including getting him on the ballot in Maryland.
Michael B. Rockville, Maryland
By betty boop
June 26, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb have spoken and pronounced everyone but B Bar as evil personified — I did not know evil had such a broad spectrum of ideology.
The simple truth is everybody, including Dee and Dumb, knows the country is in trouble, they know they are not making enough money to retire, their investments are not doin well (that is if they have been able to invest in anything more than keeping food on the table and gas in the car). They know that the economy is in the toilet and they wonder what happened to the surpluses of the Clinton administration. They know it does not make sense to yell about “smaller” government except where it relates to the most intimate and private part of their lives (their bedroom). They know that Bush lied and a lot of their kids have died and more will die if something does not stop this insane interference in someone else’s civil war. They know that health care in this country is more expensive and less available than even the smallest European countries afford their citizens. They know their schools are in chaos. The Republican ideology that brought us to this sorry pass is evil.
Stop the name calling and let’s debate the issues. Betty Boop
By Eric
June 26, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this
Betty Boop,
you are not asking the fundamental question: Is health care the proper function of government…? No! While everyone would like to see everyone else have access to inexpensive health care, governmenrt does everything it touches poorly and for a whole lot more money than the private sector.
And the USA is broke!
And if you think having the government OUT of every aspect of your life except the bedroom is ridiculous, why do you exempt the bedroom…? What is so sacrosanct about the bedroom if you don’t think your own medical care is your own private business…?
Government intrusion into every facet of your life has been a “given” for a very long time. It’s time to start asking if they have any business being there. Answer: In the vast majority of cases, no they don’t. You can make better decisions and do it cheaper. Trust yourself.
By ajay
June 28, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this
As a registered Republican, I am going to vote for Bob Barr in November. If Barr was not in the election, then I would NOT be voting for John McCain or Barack Obama ANYWAYS…
By Stefan Fargus
June 29, 2008 7:32 AM | Link to this
John McCain and Barack Obama, on the great majority of issues, have identical platforms. So, unlike many people want you to believe that it is the case, there IS no lesser of two evils this time around. Either one of the “major” candidates that you vote for is going to bring the same liberal agenda into the White House, the same amnesty, the same “free-trade” that exports American jobs, the same inflation, the same deficit spending, the same bloated national debt, the same nation-building, world policing etc… Instead of voting against someone, vote FOR someone. Barr has what it takes to turn this country around and is the only candidate who is offering REAL change and not just throwing words around.