OK, I've lost all respect for Bob Barr. And Barr has most likely lost any conservatives who were going to vote for him in protest over the nomination of John McCain, thanks to his comments today in praise of Al Gore's
moonbat global warming speech Thursday.
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr praised Al Gore, who challenged the United States Thursday to run on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity within 10 years.
“America responds well to challenges, if it is laid out, if it’s in terms that people can understand and relate to, if it makes sense – and what he’s laid out makes sense,” Barr said in an interview with Cybercast News Service after Gore spoke.
Let's look at some of the "sense" gore made:
Gore said the United States should move towards producing all of its electricity from renewable energy and clean carbon-free sources, a strategy Gore said would “re-power America."
“When President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon and bring him back safely in 10 years, many people doubted we could accomplish that goal,” Gore said to a standing-room only audience. “But eight years and two months later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon...”
“Our entire civilization depends upon us now embarking on a new journey of exploration and discovery,” he said.
JFK laid out an achievable challenge to the American people, and it worked. Al Gore Thursday laid out a ridiculously, absurdly unreachable challenge, and unlike Kennedy he played to people's worst fears to do so. It is not heroic, or sensible, to use pseudo-science to scare people into believing that "our entire civilization depends" on us not using gasoline. More importantly for a Libertarian, Gore's solution is big government socialism.
Gore urged the creation of a unified national electric grid and the manufacturing of plug-in electric cars.
Gore also said the “single most important policy change we can make” would be to “tax what we burn, not what we earn” – meaning reducing payroll taxes and enacting carbon dioxide taxes.
Sure, party names do not always accurately describe their adherents personal beliefs. For example, the Democrat Party works tirelessly to obstruct the will of the people through the Supreme Court. But the Libertarian Party has, for all its problems, always done a pretty good job of sticking to its guns.
I had always thought that the easiest job in the world would be running for office as a Libertarian. I have some major Libertarian leanings myself, and they are all summed up by the following statement: "Stay out of my way, government."
So how Barr could find anything worth praising in Gore's "Government Take Over Every Aspect of our Lives to Save Mother Earth" speech is beyond comprehensible.
Barr finished up with one final dagger to his supporters' hearts:
Barr, meanwhile, said neither of his opponents have, as yet, “sufficiently addressed” the issues of climate change and alternative energy sources.
“I hope that it does get on their agenda in a much more substantive way than it has so far,” he said.
What a buffoon. Way to kill a pretty decent history of political service. Way to throw your party's most important beliefs under the bus.
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