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Article: The Libertarian alternative: Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party's standard-bearer, speaks about his quest for the presidency.(Interview)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- September 15, 2008
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A former Georgia congressman plans to shake up this year's presidential contest, and raise even more eyebrows than he did a decade ago when he was one of the leaders of the campaign to impeach Bill Clinton.
Bob Barr's credentials as a Republican were impeccable. He was first elected to Congress in 1994 and served four terms representing Georgia's 7th District as a Republican. While in Congress, he earned a cumulative score of 74 percent in THE NEW AMERICAN'S "Conservative Index" (since renamed the "Freedom Index").
In 2006, he resigned from the Republican Party and joined the Libertarians. In May of this year, he won the Libertarian Party nomination ...