{"id":3919,"date":"2006-12-16T13:25:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2006-12-16T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T21:25:28","slug":"bob-barr-quits-gop-joins-libertarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3919","title":{"rendered":"Bob Barr Quits GOP, Joins Libertarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,236817,00.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BobBarr.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr was wrong on impeachment (of Clinton), but has been right on a number of things ever since, including joining Al Gore to condemn Bush&#8217;s assault on privacy and civil rights vis a vis his unconstitutional domestic spying and other such programs.<\/p>\n<p>Barr has now announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,236817,00.html\">he has quit the Republican Party<\/a> and is joining the Libertarians citing out of control GOP big government spending, and the aforementioned disregard for privacy and civil rights of U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>For that, he earns the too-rarely-bestowed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">BRAD BLOG<\/a> &#8220;Intellectually Honest Conservative Award&#8221; today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr was wrong on impeachment (of Clinton), but has been right on a number of things ever since, including joining Al Gore to condemn Bush&#8217;s assault on privacy and civil rights vis a vis his unconstitutional domestic spying and other such programs. Barr has now announced he has quit the Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectually-honest-conservative-award","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}