Monday, December 18th, 2006...9:56 am
Bob Barr Bolts
Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr has announced that he has quit the Republican party and joined the Libertarian party.
Barr has been a vocal administration critic on matters of privacy and a critic of the outgoing congressoinal majority. He is no liberal, however. His show has featured interviews with Ann Coulter and his website lavishes praise on John Bolton. He was also one of the main figures in the Monica-Whitewater witch hunt.
Does this augur for anything more substantial? Possibly, but probably not so much a mass defection of small “l” libertarians becoming big “L” ones. The last former congressman that I can remember that bolted to the Libertarians was a one-term Texas congressman, Ron Paul. Paul later got the Libertarian nomination for president in 1988. Paul was again elected to congress in 1996…as a Republican.
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December 18th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
I find Barr’s becoming a big-”L” rather curious. If memory serves, besides being a House Impeachment Manager, he was also the architect behind the federal Defense of Marriage Act. How does he reconcile his newfound belief in government not interfering in the personal lives of citizens with his track record of doing just that?
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