Last week on the Glen Beck show on CNN, he had Libertarian candidate for President Bob Barr, a former congressman and radio host (and probably most famous for being humiliated from Sasha Baron Cohen in the Borat movie)on for the whole hour (with too many commercials Glen), talking in detail, not politcal rhetortic about his stands on every issue from the War, to the econonomy to the energy crisis we are facing as a country.  He didn't shy away from any of the questions presented to him from Beck, I thought it was a nice conversation between to conservatives who have some differences betweeen them.  I pretty much agree with Bob Barr on every issue except for the war.  On that topic, we would bail out of Iraq but in a controlled fashion, while I would have a presence there just like what we have in Germany, South Korea and others to keep a presence in the Middle East for the forceeable future.  He is for drilling for oil offshore and in Alaska,  builiding of Nucular and Coal power plants, thinks global warming is false, would cut spending in all areas of the govenment and would eliminate the IRS.  Even though I am a card carrying memember of the Republican party, I do have several libertarian views like the limited view of government and a couple of their more wacked out views (not shared by Barr) of legalization of drugs and prostitution.  Not because I endulge in these activities but to take the crime away from these areas so we can concentrate our police force against more serious crimes.

 

Through out the primaries I thought that Mitt Romney was the closest thing we had to someone to keep government in check and keep the free markets flowing, but John McCain won the nomination.  Even though he says that he is for conservative causes, he still hasn't ran with the philosophy at full speed, his views on immigration, global warming and others have a lot to be desired.  If it weren't for the war and being a hawk on keeping government spending under control I wouldn't have much in common with the man.  Yes I have to admit I have more in common with McCain than Obama and in the past I have voted for the lessor of two evils which I most of us have done but all it does is waters down our core, that we would rather have a 50% conservative than a 0% one.  I also know that Bob Barr, while I respect him greatly for what he is doing, someone who sticks by their views noing that he has no chance to win, a vote for him is a vote for Obama.  McCain and Obama and countless others, have sold out their personal views to the other side to get elected. It's conservatives that move to he left and liberals that move to the right.  Third party candidates like Barr and even Ralph Nader, what you see is what you get, and I respect that.  So America, tell me what should a Republican do in this time of need?