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Gary Johnson: I can't start wars with places if I can't find them on a map
POLITICO ^ | October 4, 2014 | Louis Nelson

Posted on 10/05/2016 2:48:53 AM PDT by Trump20162020

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson on Tuesday defended his lack of knowledge of world affairs, suggesting on MSNBC that foreign policy expertise, or even an understanding of where international leaders are from, is what leads to military conflict.

“You know what? The fact that somebody can dot the i’s and cross the t’s on a foreign leader’s geographic location then allows them to put our military in harm’s way,” Johnson told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

The former New Mexico governor has been widely panned for a pair of foreign policy gaffes that have weighed down his long-shot candidacy. First, Johnson responded to a question on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” about the ongoing civil war in Syria by asking his questioner, “What is Aleppo?”

His inability to recognize Syria’s largest city, and the epicenter of its humanitarian crisis, was compounded last week in another MSNBC appearance when host Chris Matthews asked Johnson to “name one foreign leader that you respect and look up to.” Johnson could not name one and admitted that he was having another “Aleppo moment.”

“Five days after the interview, Andrea, I still can’t think of a world leader that I respect,” Johnson said Tuesday. “I mean, having never been involved in politics before, I will tell you I held a lot of people in this country on pedestals thinking they were role models. I got to meet them up front and personal and found out they were empty suits. They weren’t about issues. They weren’t about doing what was best. They were about getting reelected.”

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: aleppo; dope; garyjohnson; johnson; libertarian; libertarianparty; libertarians; marijuana; syria; weed
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To: Trump20162020

I’m okay with Johnson not knowing the details on Aleppo. He doesn’t need to know if he’s not planning on interfering, but he should know geography and trade. Even Libertarians have to deal with other countries.


21 posted on 10/05/2016 5:00:51 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Trump20162020

He will know where all the good pot is grown however


22 posted on 10/05/2016 5:02:18 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: Trump20162020

What is this guy, 11 years old?


23 posted on 10/05/2016 5:16:36 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Trump20162020
I got to meet them up front and personal and found out they were empty suits.

The old adage, it takes one to know one comes to mind.

I wonder if he asked Andrea over for bongs hits afterwards.

24 posted on 10/05/2016 5:26:23 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Trump20162020

THAT is what passes for a defense from this guy!

If ignorance is bliss, he’s the happiest man on earth.


25 posted on 10/05/2016 5:32:10 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: SpaceBar

Excellent summary!


26 posted on 10/05/2016 6:08:49 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
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To: Trump20162020

That he was NM’s governor doesn’t speak well of NM’s mentality.


27 posted on 10/05/2016 6:12:11 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Trump20162020

Just the sort of remark to endear the pothead/Grateful Dead/Losertarian voters to him even more.


28 posted on 10/05/2016 6:16:26 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: bgill
That he was NM’s governor doesn’t speak well of NM’s mentality.

To be fair, I understand he did a much better job at gooberner here than what he's currently representing in public.

That being said, this is the state that elected Bill "Choo-Choo" Richardson after the Clinton scandals, so, yeah, there are a bunch of morons here.

29 posted on 10/05/2016 6:17:59 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: CARTOUCHE
I’ll bet he can’t name two adjacent states either

If asked that question, his response would probably be: "Cleveland and San Diego."

30 posted on 10/05/2016 6:24:27 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Trump20162020

Gary Johnson: I’m so stupid, I should be POTUS.

What a crazy a$$!


31 posted on 10/05/2016 6:33:37 AM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: Trump20162020

Ignorance is knowledge. Etc, etc, a la Orwell.


32 posted on 10/05/2016 6:41:38 AM PDT by OKSooner (She was practiced at the art of deception, you could tell by her bloodstained hands.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

If you say so. A few days ago he went creepy crazy wiggling his tongue at a reporter. He’s been a real weirdo from the day he threw his hat in the ring.


33 posted on 10/05/2016 6:41:51 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill
If you say so. A few days ago he went creepy crazy wiggling his tongue at a reporter. He’s been a real weirdo from the day he threw his hat in the ring.

I honestly think he's actually developed mental problems, or there's some other issue.

I have only been here since 2005, Johnson was out of office at that point. Folks here pretty much said he was a decent governor, and a nice guy. Even the talk radio guys here remember him as being better than this.

I don't know. I know people can certainly change. I've known really nice, upstanding people who just went completely off their rockers.

34 posted on 10/05/2016 8:18:17 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: Trump20162020

Wow. I mean, he’s been kind of clueless, but this is just sad.

So far, the only person running this cycle that really seems like a reasonable pick is Mike Pence, fortunately he’s on our ticket.


35 posted on 10/05/2016 10:41:44 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Trump20162020

...and to think this fool was a governor.


36 posted on 10/05/2016 12:35:13 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Trump20162020
Here ya go Gary! Aleppo is the big red dot up near the northwest corner.


37 posted on 10/05/2016 12:39:39 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Trump20162020

I’m not at all upset that he can’t instantly pinpoint every insignificant crapwad of a country/region on a glove, but his blatant and unapologetic ignorance rivals Obama. And he doesn’t even have the excuse of being raised by a terrorist and his concubine to fall back on.

With this fruitcake replacing Rand I effectively have no party...the Libertarian plank was my last hope after the Republicans fumbled in the Bush era and then lost twice to a mentally deficient shoeshine boy. Johnson can barely attract attract flies let alone young voters and has no criminal mastermind - Shrillary would clean his clock.


38 posted on 10/27/2016 7:11:44 AM PDT by Laser_Ray
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