The votes are in and Bob Barr is the winner among the Libertarian party. Barr is a former Georgia congressman that left the republican party in 2006 after he decided that bloated spending and civil liberty intrusions weren't things he agreed with. He says that he doesn't want to run to take away votes from the democratic side. ''I'm a competitor and I'm in this to win. I do not view the role of the Libertarian Party to be a spoiler and I certainly have no intention of being a spoiler,'' Barr said. I think its hard to run as a libertarian and not know that you are going to take votes away from the other parties.
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When I first heard on the news that Barr was joining the race I thought it was utterly absurd! He claims that he is "in it to win it" when in reality he KNOWS that, sorry to say, he has no chance. He has joined the race to take away votes whether he wants to admit it or not. If he really was trying to be a contending candidate in this race he should have started campaigning when everyone else did, and for that I lose even more respect for Barr. He is only hurting the democratic party by entering the race now.
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