Bob Barr is the Libertarian Candidate! (Battle of the Mavericks) No. Really!

Bob Barr, member of the US Congress from Georgia’s 7th Congressional district from 1995 to 2003 was nominated Sunday by the Libertarian Party as the nominee for the Libertarian Party Presidential candidate in 2008.

Of course, Bob Barr, Jr. is NO Libertarian, but a very questionable Wingnut that has a couple of Libertarian leanings, such as opposing the war in Iraq as well as being critical of the BushCo abuses of civil liberities here in the USA after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  

Since he didn’t agree with King George W. Bush on EVERY thing King George wanted, in Barr’s last term in Congress he was branded by the “walk-in-lockstep-follow-like-a-sheep” Republicans as a Maverick and Jekyll-and-Hyde.  

From CNN:

Former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr was officially nominated Sunday as the Libertarian candidate for president.

We have only 163 days to win this election — do not waste one single day,” Barr told supporters at the Libertarian National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

Barr is best known for playing a prominent role in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.

His candidacy has attracted more attention to the Libertarian Party, with some GOP observers watching to see whether Barr will draw votes away from the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, in the general election.

“We’re not in this race to make a point, though a very important point will be made,” Barr said.

 

My emphasis

Hey, John McCain?  Theres another Maverick in town!  And in the grand Ron Paul tradition, he’s In yer Base, takin’ yer Votez!  

He is also in your base, taking your political contributions.  

Bad news for McSame.  Great news for America!  Any siphoning of votes away from McSame in the General Election is a good thing.  Not that I would vote for Bob Barr, Jr. if he were the last person on the ballot.  But that’s not my problem.  It’s McCains’ and the Republican Party’s problem.  

I really like it when McCain and the Republican Party have problems, don’t you?  The more, the merrier in my estimation.

On the sixth ballot at the convention, Barr won the nomination over research scientist Mary Ruwart. After going out on the fifth ballot, fellow candidate Wayne Allyn Root urged his supporters to back Barr and made his case to be Barr’s vice presidential running mate.

Barr, 59, left the Republican Party in 2006, and announced in April that he would form a presidential exploratory committee. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1994 and represented a conservative district in the Atlanta suburbs for four terms.

After the House impeached Clinton over his attempt to cover up his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Barr served as one of the “managers” who prosecuted the case in the Senate. Senators ultimately acquitted Clinton in 1999.

Yes, Congressman Bob Barr, Jr. totally got his panties in a bunch over President Clinton having sex!  Because, as a Republican, Congressman Barr, Jr. was such a tremendous stalwart in the family values culture club, right?  Well, not so much.

From Wikipedia:

Barr is best known for his role as one of the House managers during the Clinton impeachment trial. It was Barr who first introduced a resolution directing Judiciary Committee to inquire into impeachment proceedings months before the Monica Lewinsky scandal came to light. Chief among the concerns Barr cited at the time was apparent obstruction of Justice Department investigations into Clinton campaign fundraising from foreign sources, chiefly China.

In 1999, during the impeachment trial of President Clinton, Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt offered money to anyone who could provide evidence that a prominent Republican had engaged in an extramarital affair.

According to the American Journalism Review, “Barr was one of 13 House Republicans chosen to act as prosecutors in Clinton’s Senate trial.

Barr, Flynt’s investigators found, “was guilty of king-size hypocrisy”: An outspoken foe of abortion, the Georgia lawmaker had acquiesced to his then-wife having an abortion in 1983. And he had invoked a legal privilege during his 1985 divorce proceeding so he could refuse to answer questions on whether he’d cheated on his second wife with the woman who is now his third.”

Same old Republicans Libertarian, different day, huh?