Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr and vice presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root appeared together on Fox Business News on Wednesday morning. Asked about being a spoiler, Barr said, “Neither Wayne nor I are spoilers. Both of us are competitors. The Libertarian Party believes deeply in its message of smaller government and greater individual liberty. That’s what we want to bring to the American people. We’re not interested in spoiling anything. We’re interested in improving the life of the American people by reducing the size of the government.”
Root said, “I agreed to take the vice presidential role with Bob Barr because I believe Barr-Root is a team that can win. I’m the ultimate Washington outsider. I’m a homeschool dad of four young children. I’m a citizen politician. I’m not from the East Coast, I’m from Nevada — the state with no state income taxes, no business income taxes, no inheritance taxes, and freedom. And I think combined with Bob Barr, a guy who actually has proven he knows how to get things done and cut government in Washington, and who has conservative fiscal ideas and who has put them in places a legislator, as a congressman, I think it’s one heck of a team.”
wish there was a video link
Root just says the same things over and over again.
But he still had his fair share of “Go Bush” stories and “yes we can” moments.
Dan Quayle wasn’t as much of an orator is Wayne Root is. It wasn’t in Quayle’s nature to orate. He did ramp himself up for the 1992 vice-presidential debate (the famous one with Admiral Stockdale also in it, saying “you may be wondering why I’m here”). But Quayle’s over-the-top rhetoric and loud voice in that debate seemed strained.
B-A-R-R-R DOUBLE O-T! What’s that spell? BARR/ROOT! GO ROOT! (And Barr!)
Yep, Wayne’s sounding like his normal egomaniacal self again… he might become the Libertarian version of Dan Quayle even without getting elected.