Bob Barr to Stormfront: Drop Dead
David Weigel | June 2, 2008, 1:30pm
One of the bigger media blunders the Ron Paul campaign made was its handling of endorsements from the bigots at Stormfront. White nationalists slithered around the fringes of the Paul movement, and Paul refused to
return a donation from Stormfronter Don Black on the grounds that he'd rather the money be spent on the Paul campaign than spent by racists.
The Bob Barr campaign's taking a different approach to the same issue. Yesterday, James Buchanan
posted a racist Barr endorsement at WhiteCivilRights:
A vote for Bob Barr would at least send a message to the Republican Party that conservatives and Whites won’t sit still as they are stuck with a liberal presidential candidate like McCain. Supporting Bob Barr might even pave the way for a Third Party to replace the increasingly repugnant Republican Party... If voting for McCain is a waste of time, since he’s never going to win (because conservatives hate him), then the best course of action may be a protest vote for the Libertarian candidate Bob Barr. If Barr gets millions of votes, it will be a very strong sign that the neocons and their warmonger policies have failed and the Republican Party should change course and stop supporting wars for Israel.
Stormfront member "WhiteRights"
posted the column in the site's message boards, which is where the Barr campaign found it. Barr campaign manager Russ Verney released this statement:
The Barr campaign is not going to be a vehicle for every fringe and hate group to promote itself. We do not want and will not accept the support of haters. Anyone with love in their heart for our country and for every resident of our country regardless of race, religion, nationality or sexual orientation is welcome with open arms.
Tell the haters I said don't let the door hit you on the backside on your way out!
Barr consultant Steve Gordon sent me the statement and added: "We denounce anybody who doesn't want to treat everybody equally under the law."
Plumb Bob | June 3, 2008, 7:52am | #
Doesn't anybody see the victory for the scolds of the hard left, here?
The left has been working overtime for decades to erase the moral foundations of Western civilization and replace them with the moral foundations of social progressivism, whose moral foundations are chosen, not by what is intrinsically right, but by what makes them look more moral than their neighbors. One of the means they use is shunning; they shun anybody who does not conform to their view of morality, and they insist that everybody else shun the same people.
I'm not a racist of any sort, nor am I a white supremicist, nor do I care to have anything to do with any such people. However, such people are enfranchised deliberately. They have a right to involve themselves in public debate, to support the candidate of their choice, to vote, to assemble, to run for office. The morals implied by our Constitution say they've a right to be involved. It's the morals of the self-righteous progressives that says "Because you don't believe what we believe, you have no right to participate."
What Bob Barr has done here is announce to the world that he's swallowed the moral preening of the hard left, hook, line, and sinker. And all of you here are announcing that you have, too.
Rescuing Western civilization from the rot of progressivism will require the moral courage to stand up to their shaming and screeching and say "You do not have the right to dictate your way of thinking to the entire culture." We must do this even on the matters where, by coincidence, their morals happen to coincide with ours.
I didn't like Ron Paul -- he was absolutely loony on foreign policy, and knew nothing -- but he was correct about the contributions from fringe groups, and I respect him for it. I'm disappointed in Rep. Barr, and in all of you.
Taktix® | June 3, 2008, 9:14am | #
Ron Paul did the right thing to keep any and all donations sent to him. Bob Barr wants folk to believe that he does a background check on every person who gives him money, to ensure that they don't have any improper views regarding inequality.
Jesus Christ on a Crutch, giving back a white supremacist's money is tantamount to background checking everybody?
I'm a libertarian, and it looks like libertarians are crazier than I thought. You only have two options here:
1. Make a vague, principled point and keep the money, which no one will bother to understand and will associate you with racists.
2. Disavow a group that 99.99999% of America finds appalling and give it back.
It not like we're debating whether the NAACP is racist or something:
ITS A FUCKING WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUP. A GROUP OF SELF-DECLARED RACIST, NAZI-WORSHIPING CHRISTIANS WHO ARE TOO DUMB TO REALIZE THAT HITLER WAS GOING AFTER CHRISTIANS ONCE HE GOT THE JEWS OUT OF THE WAY.
I mean, fuck. Ron Paul was asked only two questions in the national media: Why won't you stop running? and, Why don't you give the Stormfront money back?
Does anyone want the racist tag haunting yet another candidate, just so he can keep maybe four additional supporters? There are some battles that simply aren't worth fighting. A Pyhrric Victory would be an overstatement.
Is it really that hard to follow? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
P.S. Besides, those fucking idiots at Stormfront will probably concoct some conspiracy, like "Barr just has to tell that to the Jewish-run media" and support him anyway.
A Patriot | June 13, 2008, 2:39pm | #
Who is Bob Barr fooling?
On the surface, U.S. presidential candidate Bob Barr projects the veneer of a true American patriot. He was born November 5, 1948, in Iowa City, Iowa to Bob and Beatrice Barr, and in the mid 1990's Barr was elected to Congress as a Republican representing the most conservative parts of Northern Georgia. Congressman Barr was popular in his party for his strong opposition to abortion, advocacy of lower taxes and smaller government, and leading the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
Sounds good so far, but between the 60's and the 90's there is a mystery, a history that Bob Barr does NOT want you to know about. You see, Bob Barr did some travels in his youth, to places like Malaysia, Pakistan, Baghdad, Iraq, and finally Tehran, Iran -- all Muslim dominated countries where radicalism and hatred of the West is a way of life!!!
These were NOT quick social visits. Barr actually graduated from high school in Tehran, Iran. That's right, who wants you to believe he's a US-loving conservative, was educated in the heart of evil itself!!! (I know this sounds crazy but it's true, you can check it out for yourself)
On his return, Barr (of course) enrolled at the ultra-liberal University of Southern California, joined the "Young Democrats of America" ("YDA"), and rallied against the Vietnam War. -And yet within a few months he suddenly changed his stripes and with politically convenient timing joined the Young Trojan Republican Club (more like "Trojan horse"!!!). From there, he took steps to burnish his "conservative" credentials by getting a master's degree from the George Washington University and a law degree from Georgetown, then working for the CIA for nearly a decade and serving as one of Ronald Reagan's US Attorneys, and getting deeply involved in Republican politics.
Barr's political conversion is all too convenient. From attending a Muslim high school in the heart of a wannabe Islamic empire to joining a radical organization on a radical campus in a radical time, suddenly Bob Barr would have you believe that he is a "true conservative," that he is and always has been sincere in his beliefs.. But you've just read that history reveals a Bob Barr who is a chameleon with a deeper agenda, one that reaches back perhaps to his visits to Malaysia, Pakistan, and Baghdad Iraq, and his high school indoctrination in Tehran, Iran.
If that doesn't convince you, Bob Barr actually issued a press release on June 10, 2008 flat-out announcing his desire to capitulate to Iran. Barr warns America against attacking Iran and says there's "no imminent threat," and echoes the left's call for negotiations. He also participated in a publicity stunt in Washington DC along with Ron Paul (of questionable mental balance) and Lynn Woolsey (far-left Democrat), standing on the Capitol steps and calling Iranians on a "red phone".
Let us all remain alert concerning Barr's Libertarian presidential candidacy: the Presidency of the United States is too valuable to fall into the hands of a one-time radical leftist antiwar activist with connections to Islamic hotspots which can no longer be ignored!!!!
With Sincerest Concerns,
A Patriot
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