Bob Barr

If I thought he had a snowball's chance, I'd vote for him...because I agree with his stance on many views.

I expect true libertarians to stay home in droves, or perhaps hold their nose and vote for the Constitution party. Bob Barr makes me ashamed to call myself libertarian. The party and the philosophy no longer have much in common.

I've pretty much decided on voting for Barr, even though I really don't know much about him, despite his having served various positions in/for Georgia. So basically, I'll be voting for the Libertarian party. My other options are to vote for a mainstream candidate, vote for Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney (or Ralph Nader? I hadn't even heard he's running this year!), or stay home, and all those are a bit more repulsive to me than Barr, even if he's something like a "LINO" (Libertarian In Name Only).

I'd encourage anyone who would otherwise stay home to vote for a "third-party" candidate instead, regardless of who it is. They don't have a chance of getting elected, but if one or more of them got a significant percentage of the vote, it just might send a message to the two "mainstream" parties.

Perhaps my best reasonable hope is that the winner doesn't get a majority of the votes. I recall Bush's first term he claimed he had a "mandate" and I got sick of it.

I'm all for the idea of voting third party, but Barr just doesn't seem like his views are very refined. Although at least he seems like he's taking his run seriously unlike McKinney and Nader who are just doing it to get on TV.