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Bob Barr Addresses CPAC

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First of all, kudos to CPAC for letting Barr speak, and to the moderator at the event, who kept things civil.

Yes, Bob Barr addressed CPAC. He was also booed when he declared that waterboarding is torture. However, he is right. America is better than her enemies, because we DO adhere to the rule of law. Barr is the kind of honest Conservative whose voice needs to be heard. So listen to what he says in this video clip. It makes perfect sense.

And about CPAC itself? Whether or not you agree or disagree with what ANY of the speakers are saying there, you cannot deny that they are giving the floor to Conservative speakers from ALL schools of Conservative thought, and not just any one segment. Now, I might not like everything that is being said, but EVERYTHING is being said, and CPAC is not being hijacked by fringe elements, like what has happened at other recent events. This is out and out honesty, and a breath of fresh air. I don't agree with some of it, but at least Conservatives of my stripe are being represented, and I very much appreciate that.

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Kudos to Barr for speaking the truth. He is not my cup of tea, but he is spot on. We are a nation of laws. Let's follow them.
 
OMG, just a Barr was going to get slammed, the video ends.
 
Being unfamiliar with the abbreviation, I had to look up CPAC. Why are all these old people discussing politics at the Castle Point Astronomy Club?
 
First of all, kudos to CPAC for letting Barr speak, and to the moderator at the event, who kept things civil.

Yes, Bob Barr addressed CPAC. He was also booed when he declared that waterboarding is torture. However, he is right. America is better than her enemies, because we DO adhere to the rule of law. Barr is the kind of honest Conservative whose voice needs to be heard. So listen to what he says in this video clip. It makes perfect sense.

And about CPAC itself? Whether or not you agree or disagree with what ANY of the speakers are saying there, you cannot deny that they are giving the floor to Conservative speakers from ALL schools of Conservative thought, and not just any one segment. Now, I might not like everything that is being said, but EVERYTHING is being said, and CPAC is not being hijacked by fringe elements, like what has happened at other recent events. This is out and out honesty, and a breath of fresh air. I don't agree with some of it, but at least Conservatives of my stripe are being represented, and I very much appreciate that.

Don’t kid yourself. CPAC is just another attempt by the extreme right wing of the Republican party to hijack the party and turn it due right. They’re trying to throw as wide a net as possible to capture as many Republican votes as they can.

Now they’re allowing the John Birch Society (yes, THAT John Birch Society!) to wiggle back into mainstream Republican ideaology.
ABC's Jonathan Karl reports: This week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington has a co-sponsor from the far-right fringe of American politics: The John Birch Society.

According to Ian Walters, a spokesman for CPAC, it’s the first time the John Birch Society has sponsored the conference. That’s not surprising, considering that the Birch Society has long been considered wacky and extreme by conservative leaders.

William F. Buckley famously denounced the John Birch Society and its founder Robert Welch in the early 1960s as “idiotic” and “paranoid. ” Buckley’s condemnation effectively banishing the group from the mainstream conservative movement. Welch had called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a “conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy” and that the U.S. government was “under operational control of the Communist party.”

Buckley argued that such paranoid rantings had no place in the conservative movement or the Republican party.

Two years after Buckley’s death, the John Birch Society is no longer banished;
it is listed as one of about 100 co-sponsors of the 2010 CPAC.
Why is the Birch Society a co-sponsor?

“They’re a conservative organization,” said Lisa Depasquale, the CPAC Director for the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. “ Beyond that I have no comment.”

On its website, the Birch Society describes it mission as to “to warn against and expose the forces that seek to abolish U.S. independence, build a world government, or otherwise undermine our personal liberties and national independence. The John Birch Society endorses the U.S. Constitution as the foundation of our national government, and works toward educating and activating Americans to abide by the original intent of the Founding Fathers. We seek to awaken a sleeping and apathetic people concerning the designs of those who are working to destroy our constitutional Republic.”
Far-Right John Birch Society 2010 - The Note

Watch the 3 videos to see just what the John Birch Society claims it is… and what it really is.
http://www.politicalarticles.net/bl...n-mandela-is-just-a-communist-terrorist-thug/

Do normal, every day Republicans really want their party to go in the direction of the John Birch Society? Do you accept anything being shoved in your face as long as it is labeled "Republican"? Do you denounce anything?
 
Bob Barr is a loser and a traitor to the ideals of Conservatism...........
 
Don’t kid yourself. CPAC is just another attempt by the extreme right wing of the Republican party to hijack the party and turn it due right. They’re trying to throw as wide a net as possible to capture as many Republican votes as they can.

Now they’re allowing the John Birch Society (yes, THAT John Birch Society!) to wiggle back into mainstream Republican ideaology.

Do normal, every day Republicans really want their party to go in the direction of the John Birch Society? Do you accept anything being shoved in your face as long as it is labeled "Republican"? Do you denounce anything?

William F. Buckley must be rolling in his grave.

Courting those loons is will only drive away the moderates and independents. Indeed, who wants to be associated with that group?
 
The only thing I like about Barr is that he is politically impotent.
 
bob barr, don nickels and all the others fred thompson the republicans holding hearings with the democrats and republicans on randy weaver. and they had hearings on waco- campaign finance and charlie tree the whole thing. go to CSPAN look for the hearings watch them. wanna see whats wrong with government. they left us in the dark barr thompson- john glenn . then haley barbour met with foreign donors just like the dems did with charley tree. barr sold out like gingrich did and left. he should tell us what happened and name people in the chinesse democratic and republican political scandel. once you start you wont stop watching it will give you a chill.
 
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I agree with what Barr has to say in this video. However, I decided to vote for Ron Paul instead of Barr in this past election. Barr's had issues figuring out which party he wants to affiliate with, and I can never quite tell if he's genuine or just saying what he thinks people want to hear.
 
I agree with what Barr has to say in this video. However, I decided to vote for Ron Paul instead of Barr in this past election. Barr's had issues figuring out which party he wants to affiliate with, and I can never quite tell if he's genuine or just saying what he thinks people want to hear.

If Barr was pandering, I'd think he'd pick a group more influential than libertarians to pander to.
 
I agree with what Barr has to say in this video. However, I decided to vote for Ron Paul instead of Barr in this past election. Barr's had issues figuring out which party he wants to affiliate with, and I can never quite tell if he's genuine or just saying what he thinks people want to hear.

Did you consider the possibility that Bob Barr had an awakening, which is why he turned Libertarian? The exact same thing happened to me in 2003, when I bolted the Republican Party, so I won't judge Barr, but I will take him at his word. Those who have sacrificed their own political futures, by quitting the GOP, are more Conservative, in general, to those who stay in and pander to ideas that are anything but Conservative.
 
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