Jan. 30th, 2004

Bob Barr offers hope.

I personally look forward to conservatives being so repulsed by Bush's pandering to centrists that they stay home in droves. The election is now nine months away; there's plenty of pandering to come. However, I think that conservatives should be true to their principles and support, as an independent candidate, Bob Barr. He has the backbone to stand up for the principles of law and order, fiscal responsibility, and privacy that the closet leftist Bush has abandoned. I urge conservatives to come out in large numbers -- 5% should do it, though 20% would provide a very comfortable cushion, especially in Southern states like Georgia which would suddenly swing from solid Republican to up-for-grabs -- in support of a Barr run for the Presidency. Under some forms of logic it would even strengthen the Republican Party.

(To be fair, given his dislike of neo-cons, his hatred of the Ashcroft Justice Department, and his skepticism of Constitutional amendments, Bob Barr might make a better candidate than Bush and not just by conservative standards. Still, I'd love for there to be a third-party candidate endangering Bush's hold on the right. Hell, I'd love for there to be another Republican candidate in the primaries. In my lifetime, only three Presidential incumbents have faced challengers during the primaries: Ford was opposed by Reagan in 1976, Carter by Kennedy in 1980, and Bush by Buchanan in 1992; these are also the only incumbents to lose the general election. Obviously this is correlation and not causation: the level of dissatisfaction with a President necessary to spur a challenge within the party is sufficient to ensure a loss in November. But if we can't have a Buchanan, we can still have a Perot.)

In other neo-con hating news, it turns out that the odious Richard Perle, architect of a plan to invade every single country between Morocco and Mongolia, recently spoke at a fundraiser for an organization which is apparently a front for a terrorist group that was hosted in Iraq by Saddam Hussein.
GIP.

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