Bob Barr on the Non-Value of Conservative Values
While speaking before a Netroots Nation blogger conference — in other words, in front of nobody — in Austin, Libertarian candidate was asked about the failings of conservative values.
I'm not sure. The term "conservative values" means so many different things to so many different people. To me, what has utterly failed in the traditional conservative movement is any understanding of or respect for true individual liberty and our constitutional system of government, which was designed expressly to provide protection for individual liberty.
We now have a government which calls itself conservative, yet believes it's okay to spy on American citizens within their own country without a court order. We now have an administration which calls itself conservative and supports conservative values that believes it's okay to detain a citizen or non-citizen in this country and never give them access to courts to determine under habeas corpus if they are being held properly.
Jeeze, I wish I had a joke to go along with this, but, uh, I'm at a total loss.
What the fuck is wrong with the world when it turns out that the Libertarian candidate says the smartest thing of the past seven weeks?
Good thing Barr is getting no press whatsoever.
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Sometimes, shit don't stink.
get rid of the electoral college, and third-party voices like Barr will be heard.
I find myself agreeing with him on a lot of things too. It's because of him, I know just how much we're spending in Iraq – $400,000,000 a DAY. That's just obscene, especially when those who attacked us aren't even in Iraq. Maybe Obama should make him the veep. That would really shake up the two parties. LOL.