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How Barr Will Win

By Robert Stacy McCain on 11.4.08 @ 10:48AM

Unlike some people, I don't require an Electoral College victory scenario to justify my vote. I just voted for Bob Barr. I vowed on Feb. 7 -- the day Mitt Romney suspended his campaign -- that I'd vote Libertarian this year, and I did.

I reject the idea that it is a "wasted vote" to vote for anyone but a winner (or a contender). That is an appeal to bandwagon psychology. I also reject the idea that it's somehow unpatriotic not to vote. "Freedom from politics" is one of the most important freedoms we have. If you examine the demographics of non-voters, frankly . . . thank God for apathy!

Also, I took my 19-year-old daughter to vote for the first time today. She is an education major, wants to be an elementary school teacher, and hates No Child Left Behind. She refuses to tell me who she voted for, but she did get a personal phone pitch from Bob Barr this morning.

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TE| 11.4.08 @ 12:45PM

I don't really see how you could go from the Bush-twin Romney to Barr - but I'm glad you did. I'm a FairTax junkie, so it was naturally for me to go from Huckabee to Barr. I live in Arizona and see first hand how McCain is clueless to what is going on in his own state - which shows you how clueless he would be as President.

You voted for Barr on principle - you are never wasting your vote when you vote on principle. The accusation that it would be a wasted vote would be just plain offensive.

se7en| 11.4.08 @ 1:06PM

TE,

I completely reject your naive notion that Romney is a "Bush-twin."

It figures you were a Huckabee supporter. Go populism? Huckabee's views on the economy are a disgrace to the Republican party.

WendyG| 11.4.08 @ 1:25PM

With all due respect, a vote for Barr is effectively a vote for Obama, no matter how else you try to spin it.

midge| 11.4.08 @ 1:59PM

i congratulate you for voting on principle. that's what democracy is often about.

as for your daughter, if she didn't want to tell you for whom she voted, and if demographics tell us anything, and if the fact that *you* lean right tells us anything, she voted obama.

Jaxon| 11.4.08 @ 2:31PM

I too don't understand the jump from Romney to Barr. I voted Libertarian for almost every office they were on the ballot for. This is the true party of the people. They are the only party left that still holds the values of which this country was started. And they need to increase their support so more people hear their message.

I would have voted for Ron Paul or possibly Huckabee (he believes in small govt, fair tax), but never Romney!

Anonymous| 11.4.08 @ 4:10PM

A vote for Barr is a vote for Barr, regardless of what WendyG has to say about it.

tjoseph| 11.4.08 @ 4:25PM

A vote for Obama is a vote for Obama, and a vote for Barr is a vote for Barr no matter how you spin it.
The process is supposedly democratic. If you can't vote for who you want to, then stay home. Which is what I would have done were Barr not on the ballot.
Congratulations on your Barr vote.