Barr To Lead Libertarians; Is Operation Chaos II Coming Down The Pike?

A convention with the candidate winning on the 6th ballot.

Boy, that must have sent a thrill up Hillary Clinton's leg, daydreams of what could be, if she decides to wield the flamethrower in the Democrats nomination process.

The winner of this battle was Bob Barr, taking the nomination, to run for President, with the Libertarian Party.

Yes, that Bob Barr, the former Congressman from Georgia.

The Bob Barr that was a flag-carrier for Bill Clinton's Impeachment (start drawing up the pictures, if Hillary is able to steal the nomination away from Barack Obama, how this will galvinize, not only the GOP, but the Barr-led Libertarians).

If Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain thought the Ron Paul crew was going to be a pain-in-the-ass, he now has to look over his other shoulder, with Bob Barr hammering away at him.

From Dana Milbank's "A Spoiler, by Way of the Dairy Case";

If this makes Barr a spoiler, he doesn't seem to mind. "I daresay that those people who would be inclined . . . to vote for Bob Barr as president would not likely fall into the category of people who would be enthused about voting for John McCain -- if such exists," he said with relish.

And this, from Steve Benen;

Noah Millman had an item last week in which he argued, “I’m becoming increasingly convinced that Bob Barr’s candidacy could have a significant impact on the 2008 election.” He makes a compelling case, not that Barr could actually win a state or electoral vote, but rather that Barr will be in a position to draw votes from John McCain by appealing to disaffected Republicans.

Hmmm ... Double that bet on McCain's infamous temper surfacing, more-and-more, during this campaign.

And what will the RWFS do?

Does the "Cheeseburger that sweats" (H/T Barry Crimmins), who has done his share of hammering McCain ("Limbaugh: McCain Out to Destroy GOP for 2000 S.C. Defeat"), fire up Operation Chaos II, sending his flying monkey army of dittoheads out to support Barr?

Now, there's still plenty of time for Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain to go into fourth-gear, on his pandering, once he clears the To-Do List of going out and buying himself another (presumably one without doom-and-gloom, anti-Catholic, anti-Gay and anti-Israel YouTubes) evangelist.

We have said for some time now, how much fun this election is going to be, and the SB John-Ron Paul-Bob Barr sideshow should yield many-a-nugget over the summer.

Stay Tune, Bat Fans

And Hillary, stoop drooling ... You can't reasonably expect to draw the support for a six-ballot nomination, no matter how much you, and your husband skew the facts.


Bonus Barr Links

John Cole: Bob Barr for President

Being the nominee for Libertarian party is kind of like being the star slugger for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Sure, you are in the game and everything, but you aren’t getting anywhere near the title.

So, yeah. While there are certain core aspects of the libertarian message I feel are very important, you have to recognize what voting Libertarian really is- a protest vote.

Cliff Schecter: Bob Barr Officially Becomes The Libertarian Party Nominee

Josh Marshall: Barr

Top Ten Cloves: Reasons Rush Limbaugh Bragged About Success of Operation Chaos

News Item: Rush Limbaugh urges vote for Obama

10. Simply a matter of he's so delusional, he bought his own hype and now is, legitimately, backing Obama

9. Wanted to get it in the news cycle, before the wide release of 'Speed Racer'

8. Still positioning himself to incite riots in Denver

7. Ratings are dipping

6. Feeling itchy, he wants to get back to racially smearing Obama

5. Dittoheads were becoming confused on who they are supposed to vote for

4. Now that his crush is out in the open, he's trying to woo Hillary

3. Running out of material ... Wants to recycle his Donovan McNabb comments and apply them to Obama

2. Pad the resume, for when he lobbies - again - for the Nobel Peace Prize

1. What! ... Oh no, he's popping the pills again ...


Bonus "A Cheeseburger That Sweats" Riffs

Sourcewatch - Rush Limbaugh

Media Matters: Limbaugh joins other media in whitewashing Swift Boat Vets' falsehoods, claims "nobody has disproven anything they claimed"

Crooks and Liars: Limbaugh At It Again - Mocks Voice Of 12 Year Old Graeme Frost

Jon Soltz: So I'm a "Phony Soldier," Rush?

We Wonder If Rush Lobbied For This, The Way He Did For The Nobel?

"The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round ..."

(Editor's Note: Peeling off a quick one here ... To follow-up, some complications with the Aunt in the hospital, and, likely, a procedure will be needed tomorrow, to correct the problem ... At least, hopefully, that will be the case - the other option is surgery)

Quick, someone update the Rodney Dangerfield line;

"Hey ... I went to a political campaign the other day ... And a bus caravan broke out ..."

So many bodies under buses lately.

Are we, have we, slipped down to being some backwater banana republic, where the candidate that promises to have the buses run on time (with or without bodies under them) will be the winner?

I think you only need one, or two, more to have a quorum.

And the big question, will this be a new metric for the Clinton Campaign, that they threw more (or less, if you want to base it on golf) people under the bus then Obama, therefore, that makes Hillary the rightful, fit, nominee, ready to throw more people under the bus on Day One!

Question - If you have already been thrown under a bus, can you still, is it possible, to throw someone else under the bus, while you are still under it?

Following the Jeremiah "I Ought To Be In Pictures" Wright World Tour, it was the MSM meme that he threw Barack Obama under the bus.

This wasn't promulgated by the MSM with a tremendous amount of sympathy for Obama, mere reporting "just the facts".

And it wasn't until Obama's press conference yesterday, that the MSM could shift into their latest meme, the morphing of Obama, from, as you may remember, he entered this campaign with the question mark of "Is he black enough" ... That soon morphed, with a healthy push from the McCain-hugging, 3AM Bashing from Hillary Clinton, to "Is he experienced enough" ... And now, with the Obama denunciation of Wright yesterday, we have "Is he angry enough" in play.

Rather than note, and discuss, how Obama has taken a substantial problem (that is both political and personal), and not once, but twice now, handled it, took it straight on, looked it dead in the eyes, and articulated, with great eloquence, and simple language, what his position is, what his thoughts are, what he wants to do with it, what he will do with it.

Obama gave Wright back, in his press conference yesterday, and to paraphrase Wright, "You think you're going to come in here and throw my campaign under a bus ... You got another coming!"

And, from what I saw last yesterday afternoon, and evening, that wasn't the meme coming from the pundits.

It was "why did he wait so long" and "why didn't he do it sooner" and, as Margaret "Marcie" Carlson noted how he handled it, it was a "disaster".

Yeah, they're right, Obama should have handled last week ... Or., maybe two months ago ... No, back when he first decided to run for president ... Still late, he should have done it when he was in college ... No, perhaps back when he was a toddler, or, even, still, in the womb ...

And let's not forget how the MSM (and certainly the RWFS) will pile on now, with additional memes, of why did he join this church, why did he stay with this church, why did he even go to church ... Wright's rage will be painted on Obama directly, subtly, through smears and innuendo, perhaps prompting Obama to come up to the plate a third time on all of this ...

This should put a stake in the heart of "guilt by association" for Obama, but, likely it won't.

And don't you think, for a moment, that Hillary Clinton and her campaign, aren't retro-fitting those kitchen sinks to accommodate holding Obama, Wright, and a bus, or two, in them.

I'm hoping, that maybe, now with Obama's press conference yesterday, the natural order of the news business can be restored, and the week's mega story - Hannah Montana's Pin-Up Girl Photos - can finally land on the front page, and dominate cable news - and, of course, Brian Williams, on the NBC Nightly News.


Big, Roomy Bus Links

Andrew Sullivan: Obama Divorces Wright

Richard Blair: Delicate Flowers

Greg Sargent: Obama On Wright: "I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought"

Steven Benen: When Obama gets pissed

Errol Louis: Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama or a press trick?

Rush Calls Operation Chaos Pause