Bob Barr as a potential presidential candidate for the LP I welcome Bob Barr's embrace of (some aspects of) libertarianism and (some parts of) the LP's platform. But I'm definitely concerned about his open fundraising for Republicans. For the last quarter of 2007, here are the political disbursements of the Bob Barr Leadership PAC:

REPUBLICAN:
Paul Broun (R) 5,000
Bobby Jindal (R) 1,000
James Gilmore (R) 1,000
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) 500
Barry Loudermilk (R) 500
Total Republican: 8,000

LIBERTARIAN:
LNC (L)  2,500
LPTN (L) 250
Shane Cory (L) 500 (for a tribal council race)
Total Libertarian: 3,250

OTHER/FOUNDATION:
Constitution Project ('bipartisan') 250
OK for Ballot Access Reform 1,000
Reason Foundation 1,000
Atlas Society 500 (Barr an Objectivist? who knew!!?:)
Total Other/Foundation: 2,750

I am not comfortable with furthering the image of the LP as a 'righter-than-right' wing of the RP (or even 'lefter-than-right' wing of the RP), and I am afraid a Barr candidacy would do exactly that.
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