Some Libertarians are upset that Bob Barr’s PAC still supports neocon Republicans like Saxby Chambliss, Norm Coleman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Jeff Sessions. But why? Surely Libertarians knew they were getting a smart, accomplished public spokesman for gun rights and civil liberties. But on other issues, as everyone surely also knew, he does not agree with, say, the late Harry Browne.

However, George Phillies, one of the other LP presidential candidates and not exactly what Walter Block calls a “plumb-line libertarian” himself, sees financial support for Republicans with Libertarian challengers as the ultimate betrayal. Indeed, Phillies–who is on the New Hampshire ballot as a placeholder–is now trying to keep his name there for November, in opposition to Barr. Apparently Massaschusetts–Phillies’s home state–is next.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.