Saturday, May 10, 2008

Barrett to Challenge Kind

I’m left to wonder...

Kevin Barrett, the 9/11 skeptic whose questioning of the official story of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon drew fire from politicians when he held a one-semester appointment as an associate lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is about to push back at the politicians.

Barrett plans to announce soon that he will run as a Libertarian candidate against U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, the La Crosse Democrat who has represented western Wisconsin’s 3rd District since 1996.

“I’m planning a ‘truth-in-politics’ campaign that will milk that oxymoron for all it’s worth: Call everything exactly the way I see it and let the chips fall where they may. It will be an interesting contrast to the standard campaigns with their timidity, hypocrisy and mendacity,” says Barrett, a convert to Islam who has argued for a number of years that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon “had nothing to do with Islam” and that “the war on terror is as phony as the latest Osama bin Laden tape.”

How would he differentiate himself from Kind?

(4) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1043 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. A kook ending up with the Libertarian Party. I’m shocked, SHOCKED.

    Posted by Sean Hackbarth on May 10, 2008 at 1602 hrs


  2. Expect to see Barrett go at Kind’s left on issues like free trade, dairy policy (Kind and Ryan are key to getting real reforms to Ag policy online), and economic issues.

    Kind’s the Democratic version of Tom Petri.  The one their side wouldn’t mind getting rid of for a ‘purer version.’

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 10, 2008 at 1753 hrs


  3. Dr. Barrett is a strong candidate who could pull an upset here:

    www.barrettforcongress.us

    Posted by Galileo on May 13, 2008 at 1214 hrs


  4. This is great.  Kevin Barrett brings good conservative credentials to the libertarin party.

    Posted by Antonius Pius on May 13, 2008 at 1216 hrs


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