More questions for Barr Most questions about Barr's past positions revolve around his 'drug warrior' stance. Although he has made some medical-pot-might-not-be-so-bad noises, I've yet to hear from him a strong libertarian position on the drug war: End it! Now! Is he willing to say that? In print?

The same question for Iraq: I keep hearing that he is 'critical' of the war - but where has he written anything saying the U.S. should leave Iraq immediately? Ditto for Afghanistan. He openly called for interventionism in the form of "strengthening economic and political pressure on Iran" last fall:

http://www.bobbarr.org/default.asp?pt=newsdescr&RI=890

But I have real concerns about the immigration issue. Barr clearly wants a piece of the Ron Paul action, and much of that was (seemingly) anti-immigration. Barr's congressional record is very unlibertarian on immigration (as on most other issues), so Libs need to ask him specific questions about whether he still supports all these votes he made restricting immigration:

http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=GA&VIPID=219

I wonder if many Libs are so happy that Barr is moving libertarian-ward that they are happy to call libertarian-leaning positions libertarian. But I am finding it difficult to pin down Barr's positions on much except privacy (he's for it) and torture (he's against it). I suppose that's one advantage of getting into the race so late; he hasn't had to have clearly written positions on issues important to Libertarians. Let's hope that changes soon, and that libertarians hold his feet to the fire rather than simply placing 'most improved' at the top of our ticket.

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Susan Hogarth
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