Bob Barr

I promise I’ll let the Lieberman/V.P. angle go after this, but I can’t resist pointing out the kooky logic employed by Newt Gingrich earlier this week in an effort to shoot down the Lieberman talk. In an appearance on Hannity and Colmes, the former Speaker said:

I like Senator Lieberman a great deal. I admire him a lot. I think he'd be a great secretary of state. I think he would be terrific as an attorney general, but I think the idea of him being the Republican vice presidential nominee would split the convention, would probably mean that Bob Barr would get about 15 percent of the vote.  read more »

I’m noticing a pattern here: Some outfit conducts a poll, throws Bob Barr’s name into the mix, and reports back that the former Georgia congressman and current Libertarian presidential nominee is scoring somewhere in the mid-single-digits. Then, a bunch of news outlets run the same basic story about how Barr is poised to play the spoiler this year. Here are three such stories just from the past few days. Believe me, there are – and will be – plenty of others.

Maybe we need some perspective here.

Yes, it is theoretically possible that this election will come down to a handful of votes in one state, in which case the support that Barr receives – or that any other third-party candidate receives, for that matter – could theoretically swing the election.  read more »

At noon, former Rep. Bob Barr will address the Federalist Society at Hofstra University School of Law.

At 1 p.m., Mike Bloomberg delivers his State of the City address at the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn.

At 2 p.m., the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation's governance committee holds a meeting on West 34th Street.

At 3:30 p.m., the city's schools chancellor will have a press round-table at the Tweed Courthouse.

At 7 p.m., the Manhattan Young Democrats have a New Year's party.

At 7:30 p.m., officers from 104th Precinct in Middle Village, Queens will have a community meeting on 71st Street.

And the RNC's Winter meeting in D.C. begins.

-- Azi Paybarah

Backlash to Mayor Bloomberg's national war on ilegal gun dealers has surfaced in Georgia, where Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr filed a lawsuit against the mayor today arguing that his crackdown was "careless, willful and clearly illegal."

Supporters of Mr. Barr's have suggested the lawsuoit it is about the second amendment, Bloomberg has long held that his lawsuit was about gun dealers breaking the law and allowing illegal arms to flow into the city.

Mr. Barr's press office at the American Conservative Union said that practically all of New York media has tied up their phones since the announcement, and that Barr was, for now, unavailbale to comment beyond the press release they sent us (after the jump).

In the small print on the bottom, we noticed that he serves on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association.  read more »

-- Jason Horowitz UPDATE: We spoke with Mr. Barr's personal spokesperson and not the press office of the American Conservative Union.

Remember back when former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, a Clinton impeachment leader, became a darling of the left for working with the ACLU to fight the Patriot Act?

Well, before his new friends get too excited, it's worth noting that Barr is back on the Black Helicopter juice, as expressed in an email over his name from the anti-Hillary group Stop Her Now:  read more »

"I know the real Hillary. She is as ambitious and intelligent as she is ruthless and determined. What she lacks in charm and empathy, she makes up for with cunning and strategy. But she has to be stopped," Barr writes. "Her radical left-wing agenda would destroy our nation's economy, ruin our health care system and turn our national security over to the America-hating socialist bureaucrats at the United Nations."

It's been far too long since anyone alerted The Politicker to the dangers from America-hating socialist bureaucrats.

Now that everyone is allowed to laugh again, however anxiously, it seems appropriate to mention the  read more »

Presidential press secretary Ari Fleischer, the balding boy whocried "vandal," is in a world of trou  read more »

Enough jokes about Larry Flynt's Late-Night Bust.  read more »