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After Bob wins the Libertarian presidency, he's running for chairman of the Federation of Planets.

I really do hope now more than ever that the cheese Borat gave him was from dubious sources.

Libertarian and Dapper don't mix.

He's not going to run for president -- he's just going to come out.

Can we please just colonize the moon already so these people have a place to go? Then they can have their revolution, which will be eventually subverted by more practical people, which will cause them to move to the dark side of the moon, which will be just like Wyoming, the Dokotas...Kansas and all the other places these people live.

Oh...and take the evagelicals with you please.

@SayItWithWookies: I am a Libertarian, so I've been paying attention to all of this, and I have been thinking the same thing.

Barr/Ruwart wouldn't be a bad ticket though.

The Gravel Bar was the least popular experiment in restaurant history.

I'm sorry, but the elections have been privatized now, so you will have to call customer service about being disenfranchised. Thank you for doing business with us, Libertardian.

Only slightly off topic, but has anyone else found Libertarian boys are horrible in bed? Based on their ideology you'd expect them to be kinky and wild as all hell, but they always disappoint.

Oh please please PLEASE run for President, ex-congressman and stentorian-voiced loser/loonie Bob Barr. It would be so much fun, as it might attract actual media attention to the whatchamacallit Libertarian party. (You know what a Libertarian is? A Republican with shiny sunglasses. Har har har!)

@Smitros: No it wasn't. That Korean dog meat fast food chain was the least successful restaurant concept in U.S. history. Worked pretty well in California and Houston but not anywhere else. I went bankrupt buying one of their franchises which failed.

@V572625694: har har indeed, but i always thought a libertarian was an ideologue with a loose connection to reality.

So, is Libertarian just a code word for gay republican?

Finally someone is going to answer all of America's impassioned cry -- "Give us another fringe candidate for our amusement."

@Miss Perception: I guess that beats the Larry Craig "Tubers to Tote!" restaurant concept.

Speculation about McCain's running mate can't hold a candle to this -- I nominate "B-1" Bob Dornan to run with Barr. The Secret Service will have to be assigned to protect the leaders of other nations when they visit with these colorful patriots.

@AfghanVet: "Republican" is a code word for gay Republican.

@PattyCake:

Snap!

Bob Barr used to be the second ugliest person you could ever see on the teevee, until Yasser Arafat died.

Now he's # 1.

I remind you all, real Libertarians are easy to spot. They are the ones bleeding to death on their lawns because they refuse to use the hospitals and roads our taxes pay for.

Fake Libertarians are the ones who need attention beyond what they Republican party can provide. Failed Republican = New Libertarian.

@HomoPolitico: I think you are confusing "libertines" with "Libertarians". I do enjoy me some libertine.

@AfghanVet: I'm actually pretty sure that you just described the plot of Robert Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

Also, Libertarian is also sometimes code for "Republican who likes get high."

@Cape Clod: I actually LOVED Larry Craig's restaurant that he opened up with Sen. Nelson and Gov. Crist. I could never quite figure out their famous "secret sauce" that was in all the burgers. looked like some kind of fancy mayonnaise.

@jfruh: And legally hire hookers, and openly take/give it up the butt. I should know, I'm basically a libertarian (except for everything not related to hookers, drugs, and butt sex).

I think it's time to elect the first pornstache-American president.

Maybe the NRA would endorse him over Walnuts...that would be fun.

The Newtster, Sonny "Make it Rain" Perdue and Bob Barr. We really do have the holy trinity of douchebaggery down here in Atlanta!

Oddly, considering his wackjob legislative record, Bob Barr's newspaper op-eds frequently make a lot of sense, confusing the hell out of Atlanta liberals. He's way down on the Wars on Drugs and Terra, and those assholes at TSA.

I don't think he's actually nuts like Paul and Gravel; this must be some sort of book-promotion scheme.

@Omnilation's Dog: Why is everything always about sex sex and more sex with you? Not getting any at the office?

@Lazy Media: he's just playing the old bait and switch to get back into office.

@Miss Perception:
You make that sound like a Bad thing...

@ManchuCandidate: Sex is always a good thing unless it involves a Republican: then it involves a lot of sweat and lard and axel grease. Actually that doesn't sound too bad right now.

@Miss Perception:

Hmmm...my kind of woman...need a drink?

@AfghanVet: In fact I am enjoying my first Long Island Ice Tea of the year right now at my desk at work (I am a secret bar in my office fridge). I am getting an early start on summer!

But you seem more like a Mississippi Mudslide kind of guy. I can arrange that too.

Sorry, my parents were borderline vodka alcoholics so I tend to get my pain there.

@AfghanVet: You've obviously never tried a "Rose Kennedy": cranberry juice mixed with soda water and heavy on the vodka.

I invented the Rose Kennedy in Rehoboth Beach in the summer of '69 and it spread like wildfire across the northeast! I plan to bring it back again this summer!

I wonder if all of this character appeal is going to improve the Libertarian Party's chances ... of coming in 3rd?

Well, being a Libertarian myself, I am supposed to hear the DOdoDOdoDO sound a lot, but I never hear it more than here.... How totally odd to hear libertarians being referred to as Republicans or extreme conservatives when we really can't stand them (excepting Ron Paul). Probably a conspiracy. Better get my tin-foil hat checked.

But maybe you don't know what the word means, our schools being what they are -- or understand how Democrats are just as inclined to defect to them as Republicans.

See, it's all about liberty. I know that's a frightening word, but I think I can write a few paragraphs before the thought police rupture my subcutaneous cyanide implants.

Conservatives believe in economic liberty and favor the government restricting their personal freedom.

Liberals favor personal liberty but favor the government restricting their economic freedom.

Statists want both their economic and personal freedom restricted by the government -- or more correctly, statists want other people's economic and personal freedom restricted.

Libertarians favor both economic and personal freedom to the extent that it does not harm others.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins throughout the space-time continuum -- with or without a Romulan cloaking device.

So you see, a liberal is just as inclined to move UP (not right)towards the libertarian position as a conservative is to move UP (not further right or even left) to the libertarian position.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans have moved steadily DOWN to the Statist position, which is what has inspired the stabilizing libertarian elements from both parties to finally leap.

And we don't care who wins the election in the fall because(AAAAGHH my microchip...)

I didnt know Revrend Wright was a Libertarian, guess this makes it even more awkward for Barry then.

Bob Barr voted for The USA PATRIOT Act
Before he was tossed out of Congress,
and subsequently was against it.

Bob Barr was a government sensor in every American woman's womb.

Bob Barr believes that those wide-stanced-smokers-in-the-boys-room, conservative politicians, are capable of clearly defining obscenity, and possess the power, morality and right to ban it.

Bob Barr vehemently opposed individual states' medicinal marijuana initiatives when he was in congress, and co-sponsored a bill blaming Mexico for drug-related violence, which was caused by the counter-productive War on Drugs policies, that he rabidly supported.

Bob Barr defended the Constitution from Reno's wanton advances upon it, then turned into a splay-legged slattern when General JohnBoy came round sniffing at freedom's back-door.

Only the Paultarded wing of the LP would believe Bob Barr is a libertarian.

Barr has come a long way from his drug czar days, his conversions has been in progress for a while, and I'm glad he's starting to come around more and more on some issues. Civil liberties have been a long-standing cause of his, even back in the 90s when he opposed Bill's anti-terrorist proposals that Dinesh and Dubya would eventually copy and paste into the Patriot Act. This also happens to be my biggest issue. If he's genuine, I might not have to write in Longcat/Raptor Jesus this year.

@dxh: It's a wide stance of a stretch to claim that the initiatives BillyJeff asked for in the 1995-96 Terror prevention legislation, and was largely denied delve into the same pit of depravity as the GOP's PottyPeepingPartyingPost911. There is a chasm of difference between a judge approved use of roving wiretaps to aid in terror investigations, and the unbounded data-sucking black hole that conservatives championed after their man in the White House failed at his primary responsibility to defend The Nation on September 11, 2001.

Additionally, the GOP turned the 1995-96 Terror Prevention legislation into nothing of the sort, and stood upon the OKC victims' bodies as a soapbox, while they gleefully gutted habeas corpus appeals for those incarcerated in the US. The GOP Clinton opposition, which in the House was led by Barr, refused not only a limited extension of roving wiretap applicability, they also opposed the use of taggants in explosives and explosive precursors, at the behest of the NRA, stood their ground against even a hint of US military use domestically, should a terrorist attack using chem/bio weapons occur within US borders, and any offshore banking transparency legislation to aid in tracking vast capital transfers.

It is laughably absurd to claim that the GOP Gone Wild in DC rapine of the people, post 911, was an evolutionary progression from the Clinton Administration. Here's your big clue: Clinton had the first WTC bombers tried in an open courtroom, assuring they received their rightful due-process of law, and succeeded in securing jury verdicts of guilt. Tell me please, what is the Bush Admin's record prosecuting humans detained unconstitutionally by tyrannical presidential writs since 911?

I now must choke back the bile which rises into my throat, accompanying my feelings of nostalgia for the idyllic America past, when a president's lies were only about consensual sex, cum-stained dresses and tobacco products unusually aromatic, instead of lies about theft of liberty, human torture, immoral war, and Blood-stained Iraqi sands.

The Democrats are Clearly, The Lamer of Evils.

At least we are agreeing that both parties are evil; it would take us forever to list every violation committed by each and then attempt to decide which one ranks as the lesser evil.

Are violations of civil rights to be regarded as more or less egregious than violations to the rights of property? Both parties now violate both principles with abandon.

I no longer vote for the lesser of evils, but for the good. Everyone has that choice.