Raffi Khatchadourian's profile of Barr in this week's New Yorker depicts him—accurately, I think—as no more Libertarian than your standard Newt Gingrich clone.
Who is the real Bob Barr? When he was an unrepentant hard-right Republican, he did have notes of libertarianism to him. But in his libertarian rebranding, he can't quite mask his old, musky self. He's a fraud.
Some endorsement. In the end, he stands by his party rather than the man. But personally, I feel any person who stands by his party's nomination of this charlatan does almost as much a disservice to the Libertarian party as Bob Barr's congressional career has done to libertarian ideals.
