Posted by
Eric Blankenburg on Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:08:36 PM
I’m getting a little tired of the media blathering on about how Bob Barr is simply a potential spoiler for John McCain. Regardless of whether or not Bob Barr was in the race, many people won’t vote for McCain. I certainly wouldn’t. I felt the same way about George Herbert Walker Bush.
I cast my first vote in 1980, when I happily voted for Ronald Reagan. I voted for Reagan again in 1984.
There was no way that I was going to vote for Bush in 1988 because I did not believe the nonsense about him being Reagan’s heir apparent. I supported Jack Kemp in the primary. When Kemp lost the nomination, I jumped shipped and supported Ron Paul, who was the Libertarian nominee. In 1992 I supported Pat Buchanan. When he lost the primary, I voted for Ross Perot.
This year, I’m voting for Bob Barr. If Barr wasn’t in the race, there would still be at least three candidates that I would vote for over McCain on foreign policy matters alone. They are: Chuck Baldwin, Ralph Nader, and Barack Obama.
John McCain’s views are so orthogonal to my own that he wouldn’t get my vote regardless of who else was running against him. Staying home on election day would be a better choice than McCain.