It seems Barr isn't so opposed to coalitions with Socialists, after all

[Scotso]

At least, not when it benefits Bob Barr. So much for principle.

http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/09/14/bob-barr-and-brian-moore-sue-louisiana/

Bob Barr and Brian Moore Sue Louisiana
September 14th, 2008

On September 13, the Libertarian Party and the Socialist Party filed a lawsuit to get their presidential candidates on the Louisiana ballot. Libertarian Party et al v Dardenne. Lawsuits can be filed on weekends in some U.S. District Courts, via electronic filing. The case number is not known yet. Both parties were late filing their presidential electors. The lawsuit argues that since the Secretary of State’s office was closed the week of September 2-5, and since the state has postponed its congressional primary until October, due to hurricanes, the state should also have extended the filing deadline. The state did permit filing on September 8, but did not post this notice on its web page. The Libertarian filing was on September 10 and the Socialist filing was on September 11.

 

[Richie]

Oh come on. I'm a Barr hater as well, but this has nothing to do with Barr. Are you really so isolationist that you want to keep away from socialists, as if they have a disease?

 

[Scotso]

Oh come on. I'm a Barr hater as well, but this has nothing to do with Barr. Are you really so isolationist that you want to keep away from socialists, as if they have a disease?

On the contrary, I'm the one that criticized Barr for his own isolationism. Barr (and his followers) have said that it's antithetical to the liberty movement to share any platform with a bunch of Socialists, which was his reason for bailing on Ron Paul's press conference like a pouting child. Yet, apparently his objection to such an alliance of parties only occurs when he won't be in the spotlight.

 

[Minuteman]

Give me a break. More liberal nitpicking

 

[Knightskye]

Troll.

Come on. They're suing for ballot access. You wouldn't be bashing if he teamed up with the Independents.

 

[acptulsa]

Give me a break. More liberal nitpicking

I don't think for a second that this person is a liberal. Furthermore, whether or not you think this makes Barr a hypocrite, I do find it ironic enough that I'm glad she posted it.

 

[aspiringconstitutionalist]

Guys, I don't think the OP was really going after Barr just for teaming up with the Socialist Party, I think she was going after Barr for teaming up with the Socialist Party after making a big hullaballoo about ditching Ron Paul's event because there were "socialists" on the stage.

This post is not about Barr's alliance with the Socialist Party as much as his hypocrisy about doing it himself while criticising others for doing it.

Lay off the OP. She's not a troll.

 

[Andrew Ryan]

Who are the socialists?

 

[Knightskye]

Name of the lawsuit?

Libertarian Party et al v Dardenne

It's for ballot access. Not like he's sharing his votes with the Socialist party nominee.

 

[acptulsa]

Name of the lawsuit?

Libertarian Party et al v Dardenne

It's for ballot access. Not like he's sharing his votes with the Socialist party nominee.

Well, you know, considering how differently their respective voters feel about issues I sincerely doubt he would have been sharing/splitting votes with the Greens or Ralph if he had shown up for that news conference. And while he may have been sharing votes with the CP had he showed, he gave votes to the CP by not showing. Like it or not, it's fact.

And the socialists are basically the continuation of the old Communist Party, in spirit if not in leadership...

 

[Scotso]

Just f.y.i., I'm a he. The picture in my avatar is Mary Ruwart, not me.

 

[Scotso]

This post is not about Barr's alliance with the Socialist Party as much as his hypocrisy about doing it himself while criticising others for doing it.

Exactly.

I don't mind if people still support Bob Barr or even agree with what he did in regards to the Ron Paul fiasco, however, it would be quite ignorant/stupid to say that there was no hypocrisy involved here.

 

[acptulsa]

Just f.y.i., I'm a he. The picture in my avatar is Mary Ruwart, not me.

Oh. Don't wink at me then.

By the way, you were much better looking before you told me this.

 

[anaconda]

Oh come on. I'm a Barr hater as well, but this has nothing to do with Barr. Are you really so isolationist that you want to keep away from socialists, as if they have a disease?

Actually, I think Scotso's logic is flawless and the analogy is extremely relevant. What Scotso is saying is that Barr is willing to make the case to a state government that he shares a common grievance with a person with a very different political philosophy from his. In doing so, however, he is presumably not implying that he is indifferent to whom people vote for. The effort in Louisiana is to break the system's stranglehold on ballot access. The effort at the National Press Club was to break the system's stranglehold on nation-wide false two-choice brain washing.

 

[Richie]

I see what you mean now. I agree with you. I apologize for calling you an isolationist. That's something that drives me crazy when people fling around that word, so I don't know what got into me.

 

[richiep]

I heard in Congress that Ron Paul uses the same bathroom as Barney Frank, should we all spend 5 hundred hours speculating on what that means? Oh wait... here's some more breaking news... Ron Paul once ate at the same restaurant in Texas as both George Bush Sr and Jr. My oh my we just have to question how sincere he is now on abolishing the fed now as those two would never do that - they all ate at the same restaurant don't you see the connection????

 

[latkinson6]

"The Libertarian filing was on September 10 and the Socialist filing was on September 11."
wheres this coalition? looks separate to me.

 

[dannno]

Not like he's sharing his votes with the Socialist party nominee.

The goal was to get more votes for third party candidates, not split the current votes further among the third party candidates.

 

[Scotso]

"The Libertarian filing was on September 10 and the Socialist filing was on September 11."
wheres this coalition? looks separate to me.

That's referring to the filing of their petitions to be on the ballot, not the filing of the lawsuit.

 

[Scotso]

I see what you mean now. I agree with you. I apologize for calling you an isolationist. That's something that drives me crazy when people fling around that word, so I don't know what got into me.

Don't worry, I've been called much worse.