Interesting, isn't it? Barr, a staunch GOPer for years, leaves the GOP because it isn't libertarian enough. Putz, who claims he's a libertarian, votes Republican.Bob Barr, who served eight years as a Republican congressman before losing his seat in 2002, announced Friday that he is now a "proud, card-carrying Libertarian." And he encouraged others to join him.
"It's something that's been bothering me for quite some time, the direction in which the party has been going more and more toward big government and disregard toward privacy and civil liberties," said Barr, 58, a lawyer and consultant living in Atlanta. "In terms of where the country needs to be going to get back to our constitutional roots … I've come to the conclusion that the only way to do that is to work with a party that practices what it preaches, and that is the Libertarian Party."
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Bob Barr no longer a Republican.
Matt Ortega over a SOTUblog notes that Bob Barr has officially left the GOP.
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I'm not sure "Libertarianism" means what Reynolds thinks it means. It's an odd sort of Libertarian after all, who endorses systematic state torture, the unchecked expansion of executive power, the erosion of the seperation between church and state, massive (and technically, illegal) deficit spending, warrantless domestic spying, indefinite detention without trial, siezure of public property without notice or warrant, the collection, sharing and disemination of private information by unaccountable bureaucratic entities and the rampant growth of strongly interventionist Federalism at the expense of state soveriegnty, while at the same time outsourcing various constitutionally-mandated responsibilities of the Federal government to unaccountable private corporations.
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