In echoing Lloyd Bentsen’s famous rebuke of Dan Quayle, the Los Angeles Times’ Andrew Malcolm says, “We know Ron Paul, and Bob Barr is no Ron Paul.”
Malcolm isn’t speaking of the vast ideological gulf between the conservative Libertarian and the libertarian Republican, but rather the even greater chasm between their fundraising and spending habits.
According to The Times’ Dan Morain, our chief campaign finance guru, Barr, a former GOP congressman from Georgia, reported raising a lousy $196,400 last month to give him a grand campaign-long total of $384,864.
Last month he reported spending $180,770, pushing his total outlays to $312,483. Let’s see, that leaves him $72,381 to carry him through to election day Nov. 4, unless he raises some more money.
FEC reports also show that the Barr campaign paid $30,000 to Web firm Terra Eclipse for IT services in June.
Malcolm also offers a dismissive jab about the way Barr came to be the LP’s candidate: “We’re talking about Bob Barr, who won — if that’s the word for for it — the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination.” Or perhaps he’s just saying that the LP nomination is simply not much of a prize.
‘Bob Barr is no Ron Paul’
In many ways, he is trying to be, but somehow he just doesn’t cut it.
Barr is no Ron Paul because-
a-he has no real understanding of free market economics;
b-He has barely ever worked outside of the government;
c-he hasn’t been studied or conversed with libertarians about libertarian theory for more than 35 years like Ron Paul.
d-Finally (and I know some lawyers won’t like this) Barr has that prosecutor mentality . . . hell-bent on order, regardless of its consequences on liberty.
Yes.
Total losers.
How many ballots are you on, again? Are you even on in Colorado?
How much money have you raised?
Do you even have one verifiable supporter?
The list of people you just insulted can answer all of those questions in the affirmative and give figures.
If they’re losers, what does that make you, Milnes?
Those candidates will lose the election, yes.
But you’ve already lost at life.
Ron Paul, loser. Bob Barr, loser. McKinney & Nader, losers. Jay/Knapp, losers.
The usual detractors. With their usual faulty logic. Discouraging others in the blogosphere who might think differently. As usual they are losers & their parties & candidates will lose.
Here’s the announcement where Barr mentions moving to the new headquarters:
http://campaign.blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/07/16/campaign-update/
The media is reporting today that on August 16, Obama and McCain will share the stage for the first time this election season at the Saddleback Civil Forum on Compassion and Leadership in Lake Forest, California. The event is being held at Saddleback Church and moderated by Pastor Rick Warren, author of A Purpose Drive Life. It is also be co-organized by Faith in Public Life. I am sending emails to the following addresses to encourage them to invite Ralph Nader and Bob Barr to participate in this forum as well.
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Does anyone have any data on 2000 and 2004 LP prez campaign totals for the same period? The FEC kindly chose not to include LP candidates in their receipt and disbursement summaries for those cycles.
Seriously.
He consistently rants about how the the CIA/Karl Rove is out to get him and he’s an ex-felon/former mental patient.
No one supports him.
Don’t encourage him.
Come on inD; Milnes is not fit to be president of his own fan club (of which there are no members), let alone a congressman or even a township trustee. Not even close. He isn’t fit to be janitor of the township hall or anything else other than a prisoner in a mental institution.
There are many positives about Robert Milnes as a candidate. He had a lot of good things to say in the Boston Tea Party debate. If he focused his efforts on a campaign for Congress rather than President, I think he would be more successful and respected. It would be a more realistic campaign, and he would get more support.
What new headquarters??
Barr changed HQs? I wasn’t aware.
I’d like to know what has/will become of the $19000 air conditioner Barr bought now that they have moved into a new campaign headquarters.
I don’t know what 40% of any group would vote for you, Milnes.
You’re clearly unstable, pronoid, delusional and sad.
You toss around the word “loser” quite freely, but you have never been able to demonstrate even a single supporter for your candidacy. Not a single one.
In a system where even the Nazi candidate who can’t get a single ballot line can have a small number of supporters, you can’t even manage to find one person who wants to support your campaign.
You blame everyone else for your inadequecies. Voters, the CIA, Karl Rove…etc, but you never seem to understand that the reason people don’t support you is YOU.
You can’t have success with even the most brilliant electoral strategy if you have a bad candidate.
And you, Milnes, are a terrible candidate.
It’s this fact that you can’t wrap your brain around or its something that you refuse to see.
That the candidate’s individual merits and qualities matter. In fact, they matter more than any one factor in an election.
The failure in this campaign wasn’t that the LP wouldn’t support you by paying your way to the convention. You’re no more entitled to anyone’s votes or support than the duopoly candidates are.
And perhaps your strategy really is a winner, but not with a lunatic like you at the head of it. You’d think that the simple reality that no one wants to run with you, vote for you or donate to you would be an alarm bell.
But you have some sort of force field around your brain that manufactures imaginary enemies than accepts a basic reality:
No one supports your candidacy for president.
No one cares enough about your candidacy to even try to sabotage it. (Not that you need any help)
Ralph Nader and Bob Barr are candidates that have provoked a lot of political opponents into attempting to scare voters away from supporting them.
And despite this “lesser evil” fear mongering, hundreds of thousands of people will still donate to their campaigns and vote for them on November 4th.
So your argument that there’s some sort of Nixonian silent majority that is desperate to vote for a twitchy and paranoid ex-felon mental patient is just self-evidently silly.
If you had any support, you wouldn’t have had any trouble affording a trip to the LNC convention.
Clearly being easy on you isn’t working so it’s time to be blunt.
You’re a nut. You’re a bad candidate. No one wants to vote for you.
Now, get your life together and seek some professional psychiatric help.
Robert Milnes – You are a mentally unstable, soon-to-be homeless, racist bum. Literally no one would vote for you, unless you live in a state where felons are allowed to vote, in which case you MIGHT get one vote from yourself — if you manage to get out of bed on that day.
Please get a life.
Rush Limbaugh today in the last 15 minutes of his show brought up the “Barr praising Gore” debacle. Limbaugh then admonished Libertarians to tell Barr what “libertarianism” means.
Pretty harsh, coming from Limbaugh, of all people!
PEACE
Steve
Bob Barr is no Ron Paul; agreed. But what difference does it make? Both are losers.
tsipos, no, here’s what you do not understand. Maybe a few know-it-alls like you would laugh. & it wouldn’t matter if the wrong 60% laughed. as long as the right 40% serious progressives who are sick & tired of your politics as usual losing & want to win for a CHANGE don’t waste their vote.
‘Bob Barr is no Ron Paul’
That goes without saying doesn’t it?
You Barr supporters need to MAX out now, while you can still give $4,600. You know he needs it, he’s use to spending other peoples money. SEND IT IN !
It’s pretty hard to be Ron Paul when you’re not, in fact, Ron Paul. Normal politicians like Barr will naturally fall short in multiple fields…
The right strategy is worthless without the right candidate.
If every third party in the U.S. nominated you, Robert, and ran on whatever strategy you dictated, you’d still get well under 1% of the vote.
Sorry, but the media would shine the light on you, America would take a good look at you … then laugh.
This is something you refuse to understand.
Oh, the LP nomination is a great prize all right. The right nominee with the right strategy could win the presidency.