Bob Barr, a former U.S. attorney and Republican congressman from Georgia from 1995 to 2003, has announced his bid for the White House running on the Libertarian ticket.  (Barr announces Libertarian White House bid)

    

He has some rational political positions.  He says he would:

·        immediately freeze discretionary spending in Washington; 

·        begin withdrawing troops from Iraq;  

·        consider slashing spending   

o       at the departments of education and commerce;

o       for overseas military bases;    

  

And with his experience a former U.S. attorney, he is on the right side of the illegal alien invasion issue.  He says he would strictly enforce immigration laws.  What a novel approach.    

   

"This notion that government owes something to people just because they're here does not resonate with me," he said. "This is not a charity." 

     

He left the Republican Party and became a Libertarian because he was fed up with the Republican’s failure to shrink government and its willingness to scale back civil liberties in fighting terrorism.

  

With this ongoing Democratic Kabuki dance starring Hilliary Clinton, and the Republican’s thinly veiled bid to extend the Bus$hite regime through it surrogate John McCain, I’m about ready to give the Libertarians a vote. 

   

If a Bob Barr campaigns in the name of reason in the media-political wilderness and you are around to hear it, does it make a rational sound?