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| A new column from the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank provides a glimpse into the reception upstart Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr can expect from the Republican party. He points out a number of the highlights of previous Barr appearances which will provide rich fodder for the candidate’s opponents, the media and late night television. These include:
- Licking whipped cream off the breasts of two women at a charity event
- Accidentally firing a .38-caliber pistol through a glass door at a fundraiser
- A humiliating appearance in the film “Borat”
These will likely be taken as major gaffes in a season when politicians are being excoriated for things such as comments made by their former pastor, “misremembering” a landing in Kosovo more than a decade earlier, or mixing up their Shiites and Sunnis during a speech on Iraq. Barr added more fuel to the comedy fire during his election announcement by performing some linguistic gymnastics fit to make George W. Bush proud.
He listed his grievances: government eavesdropping, suspending habeas corpus, runaway spending. Americans “ deserve better ,” he said. “ I believe they deserve better. And the Libertarian Party deserves they believe better .”
Deserves they believe better?
Still, Barr has his supporters, potentially including many of the GOP faithful who feel (as does Mr. Barr) that Senator McCain simply is not a true conservative.
He ridiculed the McCain- ... |
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