Seeing as how Barr lost his seat in the house of reps in GA, I’m not terribly concerned by him.

He’s worse on immigration than McCain. He’s on his third marriage. He’s a worse public speaker, and is a total dweeb. He yells about how the Patriot Act is infringing on important civil liberties. Which ones?

North Carolina is home to Ted Sampley and his Kiley partner. Scum. If they lead some kind of McCain defeat in NC, oh well. Their type will find a ranting lunatic like Barr attractive. They deserve each other.

funky chicken on June 4, 2008 at 9:36 PM

Libertarian Party contender for president Bob Barr was interviewed by Neal Boortz a few days ago, and the audio and a partial transcript is here. Part of the conversation involved immigration matters, and based on that I have trouble seeing any major difference between Barr’s positions and those of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George Bush, Teddy Kennedy, and on down the line. In fact, it’s like his campaign was the recipient of a blank cardboard box with just the word “POLICY” stenciled on it.

On the audio, he implies that he supports a form of amnesty where illegal aliens who are caught in the interior, as long as they passed a background check, would get to remain. He doesn’t specify whether that would be as a “guest” worker or whether they’d get on the “path to citizenship”. Asked about this, he says:

“I think as a practical matter, that makes a lot of sense. I’m not sure how you would go about rounding up millions of people and trying to deport them. The key here is security…”

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007625.html

He then said that he’d fine employers and was asked about the border fence. He said he wouldn’t build it:

First of all, I think it would be terribly costly. And whatever border fence you build, people are going to find a way to get around it, go under it, go over it, somehow… I think it would look absolutely awful. And even though it`s a fence to keep people from coming in, as opposed to the Berlin wall, it gives the same impression. Not the impression I want to give the world about America.

funky chicken on June 4, 2008 at 9:51 PM

During the 2007 amnesty battle, Barr chastised “GOP hotheads” in Georgia who went after Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson for selling out on immigration. Despite edging towards a federalist position on all social issues, he attacked Hazleton, PA and other state and local governments that have tried to do anything constructive about illegal immigration.

“Regardless of whether local elected officials believe they are under a calling—as Hazleton Mayor Louis Barletta has said—to ‘not sit back because the federal government has refused to do its job,’ the Constitution establishes clearly that they do not possess that power. Immigration policy is a power reserved to the federal government, and especially where you have a federal law (the largely discredited, but still valid 1986 ‘Immigration Reform and Control Act’) that explicitly provides that it pre-empts state laws regarding employment of non-citizens.”[Immigration belongs at the federal level by Bob Barr August 1, 2007]

My husband was one of those “hotheads” who wrote to both Chambliss and Isakson asking them why he was being shipped overseas to help establish Iraqi sovereignity while our southern border was wide open.

To their credit, both gentlemen voted against McCain-Kennedy. But Barr was on McCain’s side, against my husband and I.

funky chicken on June 4, 2008 at 9:59 PM

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/12/the-bob-barr-candidacy/

The Bob Barr candidacy
By Michelle Malkin • May 12, 2008 09:34 AM Many readers have e-mailed asking what I think of former Ga. Rep. Bob Barr’s presidential candidacy (he’s making an official announcement for the Libertarian Party nomination at 11am this morning).

Two words: Not much.

On immigration, he’s virtually indistinguishable from all the other remaining presidential candidates.

On homeland security, he’s joined with what Heather Mac Donald calls the “privocrats” in whipping up unfounded hysteria about intelligence-gathering efforts in a post-9/11 world.

On Iraq, he’s what Allahpundit calls the “poor man’s Ron Paul.”

And doesn’t the ACLU, for which Barr consults, already have enough candidates in the race?

funky chicken on June 4, 2008 at 10:04 PM