A personality trait common among progressives is an inability to admit it when they have been wrong. This is what causes them to doggedly defend favorite programs long after they have been shown to be miserable failures. A case in point is the lat…

If it’s McStain v Obama I vote McStain.
if it’s Mcstain v Cankles I vote Barr.

Can’t wait for the Mr. Black character — you know, the one where Seth Meyers poses as a black person and suddenly discovers that he can’t stop committing crimes or walk down a street without his pants hanging down to his knees, and even begins to have trouble thinking logically. What a hoot that would be!

2Brave2Bscared on May 13, 2008 at 6:15 PM

Have you never heard of Gene Wilder or, more recently, Robert Downey Jr.? What whiny bi…brats we have become.

TheSitRep on May 13, 2008 at 6:19 PM

Except Barr isn’t a conservative either; he’s just a different type of liberal.

Bob Barr has always reminded me of Mr. White–the character Eddie Murphy created on SNL when he posed as a white person and discovered the hidden treasures of being a cracker. Great skit.

Hilarious.

Can’t wait for the Mr. Black character — you know, the one where Seth Meyers poses as a black person and suddenly discovers that he can’t stop committing crimes or walk down a street without his pants hanging down to his knees, and even begins to have trouble thinking logically. What a hoot that would be!

He’s the guy in Borat who eats the cheese right?

freakagriep on May 13, 2008 at 11:59 AM

Bingo: http://www.chbn.com/Clip.aspx?key=8BF2D6BFC8CACD0C

As a congressman from Georgia, the thrice-married Barr returned attention to the whipped-cream episode when, speaking in support of the Defense of Marriage Act, he argued that “the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundations of our society.”

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
- Barry Goldwater

Bob Barr has always reminded me of Mr. White–the character Eddie Murphy created on SNL when he posed as a white person and discovered the hidden treasures of being a cracker. Great skit.

robblefarian on May 13, 2008 at 11:31 AM

You mean “White Like Me” ?

I hafta throw in “Prose and Cons.”

C-I-L-L my landlord.

Cuffy Meigs on May 13, 2008 at 12:24 PM

OK that one did actually make me laugh out loud.

Between the photo of this guy and the one of Ron Paul, I’m feeling the crazy emanating from my monitor.

And every time I see a pic of McCain, I feel socialism emanating from mine. I think of McCain Feingold, I think soft (nay, non existent) on the border, the Gang of 14. I could go on and on, but I think you get it.

RWLA on May 13, 2008 at 11:42 AM

Um, what did your response have to do with what I said? These aren’t mutually exclusive statements.

If you want to go off on a rant about McCain, that’s your business. However, here’s a bit of advice: try to respond to an actual supporter of McCain or to an actual statement which supports him.

Libertarianism is nothing more than a way to poke fewer Republicans in the eye than John McCain does.
Akzed on May 13, 2008 at 11:40 AM

Hey, it is the lesser of two evils. At least that’s what I am hearing a lot about lately.

Bob Barr threw his hat in the ring as a Libertarian yesterday, to the collective disinterest of everyone outside of the pundit class. About all the impact Barr will have on this election will be to provide fodder for snarky columns like this Dana Milbank entry, which covers Barr’s foibles rather definitively.

You say that, and it’ll be true up until McCain pisses off enough conservatives that they’ll even vote for this dirtbag in protest.

Because that worked out so well. Instead of Bush, we got 8 years of Clintons neglecting national security and not killing bin Laden.

amerpundit on May 13, 2008 at 11:37 AM

You should be telling McCain that.

Wasn’t there something about Bob Barr and an abortion in the 80s? Or did that turn out to be just rumor?

MadisonConservative on May 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM

From Wikipedia, fwiw: “An outspoken foe of abortion, the Georgia lawmaker had acquiesced to his then-wife having an abortion in 1983.”

Wasn’t there something about Bob Barr and an abortion in the 80s? Or did that turn out to be just rumor?

MadisonConservative on May 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM

That was a Larry Flynt accusation, when Flynt was trying to dig up trash on everyone attacking Clinton.