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/p> p> Robert Stacy McCain replies: br> Whether or not Barr's candidacy will be a "huge factor" in November remains to be seen. Certainly, there are facts indicating the possibility that Barr might indeed be a factor. The phenomenal fund-raising of the Ron Paul GOP primary campaign is the major datum in that regard. If Paul could raise more than $30 million for his Republican insurgency -- which was just as arguably doomed to failure from the outset -- then what might the Libertarians do, should they tap into the same political vein? /p>

The doomed-to-failure argument might just as well have been applied to Hillary Clinton's Democratic campaign after Super Tuesday, but I've written at less four Spectator articles about her campaign since March. And I should point out that, whatever partisans of either major party might say, either John McCain or Barack Obama is even now doomed to failure in November. (Barr, of course, would say that both of them are doomed.)

My crystal ball has been on the fritz lately, and therefore I have no idea what's going to happen between now and Nov. 4. To say, then, that Barr's campaign should be ignored because we know that he won't be a factor is to argue on the basis of an unproven premise. If you know of an affordable crystal-ball repairman, please let me know.

p> UNIVERSAL, BUT NOT FOR EVERYONE br> Re: Peter Ferrara's Free Market Universal Health Care : /p>

I posed a question several years ago that I would now like to pose again. Was I out of the room when the meeting was held at which it was decided that universal health care became a "right" of every American citizen? As long as so-called, self-identified "conservatives" continue to cede the premises of the hard core, left wing Marxists in this country, our republic cannot be saved. We will continue our head long plunge down the slippery slope, onto which every Western society has been thrown, toward fiscal and social oblivion.

We cede the premise that universal health care is a right. We cede the premise that anthropogenic global warming is a fact. We cede the premise that "big oil" is at fault for high gas prices and are ripping off us poor consumers. We cede the premise that federal government intervention is the answer to all problems, real or imagined.

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