{"id":386,"date":"2008-10-27T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2009-08-21T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T13:27:11","slug":"barr-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/barr-none\/","title":{"rendered":"Barr none"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ron_paul\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Paul<\/a>, but he didn&#8217;t do himself or the country any favors when he declined to run on the same ticket as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Libertarian\" target=\"_blank\">Libertarian<\/a> candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/bobbarr2008.com\/home\/skip\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Barr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I had briefly imagined things working out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Paul accepts the invitation, or at least counter-offers to run for President with Barr moving to veep.  I think Bob would have jumped at the chance.<\/li>\n<li>Dr Paul&#8217;s tremendous grass-roots support energizes an already-healthy Libertarian movement.<\/li>\n<li>Seeing a viable opportunity for a pair of A rated candidates to win the election, versus the C+ rated Republican candidate, the <a href=\"http:\/\/nra.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NRA<\/a> throws its resources and recommendation to the Libertarian party.  That&#8217;s six *million* votes, stated conservatively.  Suddenly, at public demand, there are _three_ parties in the debates.<\/li>\n<li>Sensing the fallacy of the two-party argument &#8220;Voting for a third-party candidate is throwing your vote away&#8221;, millions of disaffected conservatives cast their ballots for Barr and Paul.<\/li>\n<li>Having now an actual separation between the tenets of the two leading parties, the Democrat platform is forced to withstand the harsh light of fact and reason.  Obama is still charismatic and enjoys broad media support, but the contradictions and fallacies in the Democrat wishlist are exposed for all to see.<\/li>\n<li>Barr and Paul win the election, and by leveraging their broad popular support, work immediately and tirelessly to remove and rebuild our broken tax system, resulting in an unprecedented surge in the economy, billions of dollars in inefficiencies recovered, immigration issues mitigated, and sufficient revenue to fully fund all current Federal entitlement programs and even begin paying down the national debt.<\/li>\n<li>Most importantly, with <a href=\"http:\/\/fairtax.org\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Tax<\/a> in place, they have kicked down the stanchions that had been supporting the two-party system, and removed the ability of self-interested factions to subject American voters to economic blackmail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, anyway, it was a nice dream for the few days it lasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Ron Paul, but he didn&#8217;t do himself or the country any favors when he declined to run on the same ticket as Libertarian candidate Bob Barr. Here&#8217;s how I had briefly imagined things working out: Dr Paul accepts the invitation, or at least counter-offers to run for President with Barr moving to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}