Is Bobb Barr the anointed one to wreck The Ron Paul movement?

Otherwise, they wouldn't pay SillyBee and others to sit in here 24/7 on his behalf.

You don't see that kind of activity about Baldwin. A little sincere stuff here and there, but not like the Barr Campaign.

whatever, he cannot wreck it.

its about educating the people, he cannot stop that.

no one can stop it now. Not even ron paul.

I did not vote for Barr on every one of the six ballots. I can't recall exactly, but I know I didn't vote for him on the first couple of ballots. I did vote for him on the last one.

I'm a maxed-out Ron Paul supporter. I'm certainly not plotting to stall the Ron Paul revolution. My state's primary was in February, but I've kept my RP yard sign up until now, anyway (changing it every 30 days to avoid breaking my city's sign ordinance). I was a precinct captain, too.

Going into the LP convention I had no idea who our nominee was likely to be. We have many hard-working campaigners and almost a dozen to choose from. I attended their debates the day before the vote.

My main concern was to make sure we elected someone we could be proud of as a defender of freedom, and someone that Ron Paul, himself, would prefer to vote for (whether or not he makes a public endorsement). Most of our candidates fit that description.

The LP targeted Barr when he was a Republican, and helped get him out of office because of his stance on the drug war (jailing addicts). Since then, he joined our party. His nominating speech was given by Rob Kampia of the Marijuanna Policy Project. Barr has been lobbying Congress for them.

If you think the folks on this forum get heated about issues, you have a taste of libertarians on issues. You can bet that he is cornered everywhere he goes and quized on his stances and his "conversion." The LP is called "The Party of Principle" for a reason, and we don't let people get away with inconsistency.

Barr spoke to my delegation and described being challenged on his past positions by delegates representing various pro-freedom interests from the Outright Libertarians (gay/lesbian, etc.) to the medical (and recreational) marijuanna users. He was challenged on the Patriot Act, the Defense of Marriage Act (which returns such matters to states), and others.

I found him to be credible when he said he had come to see the principle of freedom as it applies to all these issues. I believe that when a person begins to see how freedom is the answer, and how one must apply it equally to economic and personal issues, they will become more consistently libertarian. Barr appeared to me to be on this educational path with many of us in the revolution; learning and growing.

I don't agree with him (or RP, for that matter) 100% on everything, but I'm happy with Barr as a choice on the ballot far more than the non-Paul alternatives.

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I also felt that the big advantage to Barr is that his nomination 3 months prior to the GOP national convention sends a very strong message to the GOP to get their act together and start making concessions to the Ron Paul Republicans, or else lose their support to the LP. As a former Republican, Barr serves as an example to the GOP that they can and will lose support if they don't return to their roots in small government.

If we had nominated Mike Gravel, for example, it would not have helped Ron Paul at all. The GOP would have no reason to fear our small percentages if we were taking Gravel's support away from the Democrats. Our other candidates are not well known to the public and would surely have gotten much less press coverage.

When I see comments against Barr for his past positions or claiming he's a plant, I immediately suspect that this is an attempt to derail the freedom movement by sowing dissention in the ranks of the revolutionaries.

The powers that be are not worried that Ron Paul will get the nomination, they are fighting for their cushy jobs and government favors. They don't want the freedom movement to succeed, and so they try to divide us.

When Ron Paul and Bob Barr both appear on the ballot together in November, we will have to choose between them. Wouldn't that be lovely?

Until then, I'm just glad I don't have to vote for McCain, Obama or Clinton.

I'm pulling for those of you in the GOP, especially delegates, to do your best to promote Ron Paul to the GOP, but I'm satisfied that at least one promoter of freedom will be on the ballot after September.

IMissLiberty