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<p>[Barr</a> forms presidential exploratory committee | ajc.com](<a href=“http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/metro/stories/2008/04/05/barr_0406WEB.html]Barr”>http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/metro/stories/2008/04/05/barr_0406WEB.html)</p>
<p>Will you be sending him money? How about your vote?</p>
<p>Bob Barr is a very decent person. I know him & can assure anyone that he has an independent mind. Even in the Republican landslide of 1994, when he won office as a U.S. Rep. under the Newt Gingrich led Republican Revolution, he could not be controlled by the party interests. And the Georgia Republicans controlled more than most realize, including the Dept. of Justice. Bob Barr is truly an independent who values Constitutional guarantees. Probably the only politician–and I know several–that I would trust without question.</p>
<p>I should do what Rush is doing, support him so McCain votes go his way, isn’t that the way republicans do politics these days anyway?</p>
<p>Well, I don’t understand the above post, I don’t like Rush Limbaugh, & I support John McCain. Nevertheless, Bob Barr is the most decent politician that I have ever known.</p>
<p>because rush asked republicans to register as democrats and to vote for Hillary so that Obama wouldn’t do as well…</p>
<p>and he wanted that done for McCains benefit…</p>
<p>Barr will just take votes from McCain, and probably ensure an Obama victory.</p>
<p>go BARR!!!</p>
<p>Citygirlsmom—LOL!:D</p>
<p>Personally, I think Barr is great. I just don’t think he should jump into this election. Not unless the plan with the republican party is to purposely let the democrats win this one. I believe that initially they figured there was no way the republicans were going to win; with Bush’s approval rating and the war in Iraq. I believe they pretty much just said to let the dems have it and try again in 4 years. Of course, that was until Obama and Hillary decided to destroy their own party and candidacy. Now it looks like McCain could actually win this one.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Barr getting into the race would be the same as when Nader, perot, and others jumped in. They took votes away from their true party before running as an independent. Personally; I think that ANYONE wanting to run for president; under any party’s banner; should be registered and on the state’s ballots at the same time as the reps and dems. This way there’s no hidden runners. It messed up Bush in 1992 and it messed up Gore in 2000. I don’t mind seeing the tree shaken up, but not when voters no longer have a chance of voting except in the general. Many states allow voting across party lines during primaries and caucus’. The people should have had the right to express what they wanted by voting for Barr in their state election instead of McCain or Obama or Clinton. To have him pop in after all the primaries are over and just be available for the general doesn’t allow the voters a chance to know the candidate. I didn’t like it in 1992 or 2000. </p>
<p>Then again; there’s a lot of voters out there who have proven on tv, radio, and the internet that they truly do not care about the United States. They don’t care what’s best for the country. They are on a bandwagon and they want their team to win. Nothing else matters. They aren’t even voting FOR something. They are voting AGAINST something.</p>
<p>citygirlsmom: I know that politics can be a sensitive matter. I support McCain, Barr, Hillary & will not vote for Obama. Not due to any prejudice–I would vote for Colin Powell before any of them, and I wish Condi Rice would run for VP. I just don’t know what Obama stands for. I listened & I’ve read. I still don’t know. The “change” mantra is just a rallying cry against Chaney & Bush. Well, I don’t like either, but I still don’t support Obama. I don’t fear an Obama presidency either as it will just be more of the same–only less callous than Bush/Chaney. In the coming weeks & months I predict that Obama’s platform will become more centrist & conservative. Whether you want to believe it or not, Obama is first & foremost a politician. ChristCorp: Bob Barr is getting in because he wants assurance of a cabinet position in the McCain administration. Republicans stand a good chance against either Democrat–although it is 50/50. This is one method politicians use when applying for a job. Same with the Senator from North Carolina. Just wait & see.</p>
<p>condi won’t run, the rumors about her "orientation’’ abound, and the powers that be would not let her run, she is being paraded around to show how "open’ the ticket might be, but it will never happen that she is VP…</p>
<p>I agree; she has already declined to run. If McCain feels that he needs to motivate the conservative base of the Republican Party, then Bob Barr is a possible VP running mate. As odd as it may seem, there is a chance that Colin Powell may be a part of the Obama ticket. That would be stronger than an Obama/Hillary or Hillary/Obama ticket. Unfortunately, I do not believe that any result will bring substantial change. However, Bush/Chaney have created an environment which will welcome anything different. Power is power. And politicians will always be politicians first & foremost. They just explain things differently.</p>
<p>Bob Barr has no chance of getting elected - not with that moustache. No one will take him seriously.</p>
<p>Noone has ever suggested that Bob Barr can get elected president. But he can motivate conservatives & raise money–and those are assets sought in a VP candidate. To the post below: People really don’t vote for vice-president, & Bob Barr has been elected to Congress. Voters are not shallow either–a moustache or the color of one’s skin does not matter. Many believe that Bob Barr is part African American. Bob Barr did not respond & got elected to the single most conservative, overwhelmingly white district in the U.S. It might be foolish to assume that there isn’t more to the Bob Barr campaign than one might initially think.</p>
<p>I didn’t say anything about president, but in any case he can’t get elected vice president with that moustache either.</p>
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<p>Skin color may or may not matter, but in modern times facial hair does. The last time a ticket with either candidate wearing a moustache won was in 1928 - Charles Curtis had a moustache and served as Hoover’s VP. The last time anyone got elected president with facial hair was Taft in 1908 - a hundred years ago.</p>
<p>And unfortunately voters can be VERY shallow. Many observers said that one important reason why Thomas Dewey managed to lose the presidency to both Roosevelt in 1944 and Truman in 1948 was that we was foolish enough to wear a moustache.</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t care - I wear a full beard myself. But we’ll know that Bob Barr is getting serious about achieving national office when he shaves his off. Until then he is just kidding.</p>
<p>he should let it grow into a HandleBarr moustache,…</p>
<p>Maybe he should shave the mustache, and grow a beard. A little dark hair dye, and he’d look like Lincoln. Kind of.</p>
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<p>Huh? Either you pulled that one out from some nether-region or you’re privy to some top secret information. Colin Powell has been so thoroughly retired, so MIA in the last number of years, that you don’t even see him pontificating over politics on the talking heads shows. Plus there’s that little detail you seem to be overlooking----He’s a Republican.</p>
<p>The General has made it quite clear that he is not in the least bit interested in running for political office, especially not the Presidency. He probably could easily win a Senate seat with his hands tied behind his back, but he’s not even shown any interest in that. Please icy, do explain your reasons for saying that Powell might run as Obama’s VP.</p>
<p>Maybe the idea is that Powell might be in Obama’s Cabinet. That’s not so far-fetched.</p>