(For their part, Barr campaign workers blame Obama, or at least McCain's ability to frighten right-leaning voters of him so much that even if they liked Barr better, they felt they had to tactically vote GOP.)
I know numerous people right here in Pennsylvania who (claim they) would have voted for Barr except they felt like they had to vote Nobama (i.e., McCain). That's fundamentally broken, for several reasons.
1. The point right now, at least in a presidential election, isn't to win; it's to create and consolidate momentum. You claim you're 'wasting your vote' on Bob Barr, but what do you call it when you vote for a candidate you don't even support, just to stop an even less desirable candidate from achieving power? If everyone that claims they liked Barr better than McCain had voted for him, Obama would have won the election in a major landslide... and Bob Barr might have polled upwards of ten, twelve percent of the country at large. Obama would have become president, and the Libertarian Party would have become a national sensation, positioning itself very well for the future. People must be made to see this.
2. There is effectively no difference between Barack Obama and John McCain. They both will attack every conceivable problem in exactly the same way all Republicrats have for 100 years: By making the government bigger. By taking away, inch by excruciating inch, more and more personal freedoms (and more and more personal money). The only difference between Democrats and Republicans at this stage in the game is where they spend the money they forcibly rob the people of: Democrats like to waste it on social bureaucracies, and Republicans like to waste it on military/intelligence bureaucracies.
The Libertarian Party as a whole--Barrites and non-Barrites--massively failed to pound this into the national consciousness. What's more, I can't see that we really even tried.
3. John McCain was, from day one, doomed. He never had a single solitary droplet of a chance. The Republicrat media did a wonderful job of pretending, and tricking the populace, into believing the election was in doubt, when in fact it never was, not for a moment. There were a handful of individual states where one could justify voting for McCain as an anti-Obama measure--Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina--but mostly what we had was Libertarians or Libertarian sympathizers in places like Pennsylvania, where Obama won by 12 points and it was obvious for months he was going to win by 12 points, voting for McCain because they were afraid of Obama. It makes no sense. Voting for McCain was wasting your vote every bit as much as voting for Barr, in most states.
By the way, consider: Why do both major parties benefit from everyone believing the election is close? Because if people know the election isn't close, many more of them are going to be inclined to vote for third parties. If every non-hardboiled Democrat in the country knew Obama was going to win in a landslide no matter what they did (which was true and was always true), more than five percent of them would have voted for Bob Barr.
You see, one of the primary reasons the media spent months lying to us about the closeness of the election was specifically to keep the Libertarian Party down.
I'm going to write more on this later, but the Republican party is in deep trouble. I mean, deep trouble, trouble that's going to threaten its existence in the years to come. And we need to be the hyenas circling around and waiting for the right chance to jump in and kill it. A lot of us aren't comfortable with that, but the Republican party is where it is today because its leadership has betrayed its voting masses, stabbed them in the back. And we're the ones that need to be telling them about it. I don't feel bad about killing the Republican party, and you shouldn't either. The country is looking for a reminder of what 'conservative' means--IT MEANS SMALL GOVERNMENT, STUPID!--and if we don't show them, no one will. Ever.
I'll stop there since this is turning into something of a manifesto, and continue fisking this important article in the near future. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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