The Bob Barr protest factor, it will hurt McPain

[DainBramaged]

MSM don't want to talk about it.

I do.


http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2008/10/26/barr_1026_3DOT.html


The campaign plane touches down and John McCain emerges to the booming chorus of “Eye of the Tiger” and the raucous cheers of 3,000 supporters. TV cameras record every “Joe the Plumber”-referencing moment by the Republican presidential nominee, whose airport rally will dominate local newscasts.

At the same time, Bob Barr is making his own campaign appearance a few miles away. The Libertarian nominee for president from Cobb County is clearly outmanned — about 200 people have shown up for his speech at the University of Cincinnati student center. And outspent — his campaign plane, he says wryly in an interview, is “called Delta.” But he’s definitely not outgunned, at least when it comes to taking out the opposition verbally.

“I get kind of tired of hearing Sen. McCain tell us he’s a maverick,” Barr says as titters ripple through the crowd. “In one of those debates, I would have liked to have said, ‘OK, time out. At the very beginning of the debate, Mr. McCain, we want you to recite 50 times, ‘I am a maverick.’ And we’ll just get that out of the way.’ “

A few minutes later, after slamming the recent government bailout of Wall Street, Barr pulls a poker face: “Oh, by the way. Who was the administration’s main cheerleader in the Senate during all those votes? You guessed it! Sen. John ‘I Am a Maverick’ McCain ….”

Make no mistake about it. Barr, the former Republican congressman from Georgia, is running to be the first Libertarian president of the United States. By running squarely, defiantly, against McCain and the Republican Party he feels has lost its way.

Don’t believe it? Ask Barr about his message here in Ohio, a key battleground state where McCain and Democratic opponent Barack Obama have deployed vast amounts of money in a quest to capture its to-die-for 20 electoral votes. His response is almost gentlemanly formal: “Particularly as Sen. McCain seems to be entering the homestretch here with a decreasing chance of winning, rather than an increasing chance, one of the things we urge people is, if you might have been predisposed to vote for McCain, you should now feel even freer not to have to do that.”

[rucky]

1. Isn't he only on the ballot in a few states?

but hey, if he can help us win Ohio, it's Mission Accomplished

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. My strategy with die hard conservatives, especially with racists, is to encourage

them to vote for Barr.

[Donkeykick]

3. And...

“I get kind of tired of hearing Sen. McCain tell us he’s a maverick,” Barr says as titters ripple through the crowd.

what about all of those times that McSame says: my friends. :wtf:

[PATRICK]

4. That is the feel

I get from the angry, conservative leaning independents. Anger is now turned against BOTH parties for that type of voter. If they have an alternative to make them feel righteous and less of a loser they will go for Barr. Such people despise McCain for losing(first of all) and next for representing nothing they can grasp in an economic meltdown. This will likely spread sentiment down ticket as well that will hurt the GOP much more than Nader truly hurt Dems.

What is remarkable is that such a shift is NOT likely to be needed to help Democrats!

[genna]

6. Why would they vote for Barr when he is as black as I am?

Unless the Dave Chappelle skit about the black pro-white racist Bigsby Gains (or something close) is really the new white supremacist.

[genna]

5. I thought the Libertarian Party was on the ballot in 45 states.

We need to address third party issues.

[Feron]

7. Bob Barr isn't on the La. ballot, but..

Ron Paul is.

So hopefully Paultards here will vote for him instead of McCain.