Bob Barr MAKING SENSE On Blitzer With Al Franken?

[KittyWampus]

wha?????????

Said lesbian daughter stuff was distraction and agreed with Al that
Kerry's comments about terrorism as Nuisance was taken out of context.

[treading_water]

1. What the hell is going on????????

Bob Barr says: "We have allowed the war on terror to totally undercut our civil liberties."

When did we step into the twilight zone? Are we seeing the leading edge of the revolt of the moderate republicans?

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. Just the fact that you called Barr a "moderate Republican"

...proves the Twilight Zone factor.

Just as recently as 1998 (Monica impeachment mess) Bob was considered the scary edge of the right wing fringe. A distinction he shared with Buchanan. Now days, both of them are sounding pretty reasonable compared to the neo-convicts.

[Eurobabe]

3. that IS scary!

[treading_water]

9. Ahhhhh.....

Did I mention I just woke up from a 30 year political coma? :eyes:

So, didn't know who Bob Barr is/was. He sounded pretty moderate to me.

[0rganism]

5. For all his many flaws, Barr is a card-carrying ACLU member

He is not the most unreasonable man ever to serve in congress.

[progdonkey]

7. Libertarian-Republican

Barr has always been in the Libertarian faction of the Republican party; he's publicly rebuked on many occasions the president for the invasive sections of the Patriot Act. He's even an advisor (or something to that effect) to the ACLU!

[KittyWampus]

8. What's The Name Of The Texan In Congress... The One That Smacks

Bush every so often?

[Gato Moteado]

11. ron paul

nt

[benburch]

12. Ron Paul

Also a RINO - He ran as the Libertarian candidate for President in '96 if I recall correctly.

Seems to be a decent and honest guy, actually.

[bornskeptic]

13. RonPaul. He's actually a Libertarian. n/t

[NEDem]

4. Barr has been making sense for a few months now.

I wonder if the kool aid finally wore off, or he genuinely cares about the future of this country.

He's be shockingly normal lately. WTF is going on??

[sangh0]

6. He's a politician

The bat-shit crazy stuff was to win votes. If he himself were really that crazy, he wouldn't have the sense to get himself elected.

[dogtag]

10. Wolf couldn't wait to get them off so that he could put on

Carlos and his "I'm talking in a great big circle" babble. Why can't Blitzer spend some time when he has good guests? Why is it that he and Judy are always in such a hurry to get to 'nothing' stuff? It's understandable if there is some breaking news, but usually there isn't.

[BuelahWitch]

18. Because that's "hard work"

They're not real journalists, just talking heads. They don't know what to do once they have to get off their scripts.

[seabeyond]

14. barr fed it at it conception with the impeachment hearings

he may now say htat repugs are going to far, but it was the trampling of constitution that began with the impeachment. so he had his hands in htis mess from the beginning, now he is saying, hey wait, this isnt good.

too late barr dude. this is in part your creation. own it. see what you did. so how loud are you gonna get to correct the mess you helped us to get into.

pretty ugly isnt it. as we knew it was way back when

[Old and In the Way]

16. Exactly.

That fruitloop at no problem trampling a sitting President's civil rights in his zeal to further the Republican agenda - manufacture evidence to support ongoing investigations in hopes of finding one that would support a political impeachment. Make no mistake....the Republicans declared war on Democrats many, many moons ago. And they're this close into morphing the US into a one party monarchy.

[Lefty48197]

15. The emerging moderate Republican

Bob has seen the writing on the wall. He sees that the conservative house of cards is about to crumble, foundation first. The conservative movement has been exposed for the big lie that it is. Bob's hoping to survive the fallout.

[ciaobox]

17. Bush has a lot of enemies on all sides of the fence

Do not be surprised to see many more Rethugs coming out of the woodwork to bring Bush down. They don't like the heavyhandedness Bush brings on THEM. Don't forget, they are trying to refine all the house/senate Republicans into a single, neocon voice. This means they hate the libertarians as much or as more as they hate liberals.