Posted on 10/11/2012 1:55:11 AM PDT by Siegfried X
Presidential Candidate Governor Gary Johnson Survives Brutal Republican Ballot Challenge
Commonwealth Court Senior Judge James G. Colins ruled late today that the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania has filed nominating petitions containing more than the required 20,601 valid signatures and that the entire slate of statewide Libertarian candidates will remain on the November 6 general election ballot.
The ruling was a stinging defeat for Republicans who waged a grueling and expensive 9-week battle to force their Libertarian Party competition off the November ballot...
With little money and an army of dedicated volunteers, the LP stood up to the superior resources of the Republican Party, never once considering capitulation, even though faced with the possibility of a significant assessment of costs, sanctions and attorneys fees that may be assessed on the losing party...
Libertarians were required to field teams of at least 20 people each day for two weeks in Philadelphia. Each was paired with a Republican and a computer operator in order to tediously review challenged signatures. A similar operation was conducted in Harrisburg the following week. After this effort, approximately 14,000 signatures remained contested. For the next four weeks, four teams of lawyers and volunteers meticulously re-reviewed the contested signatures under court supervision.
The herculean effort to defend against the challenge was supported by more than 85 very dedicated volunteers hailing from seven states. Roy Minet, who coordinated the massive, marathon volunteer effort, stated, “Our volunteers are truly noble. We appreciate that we even had a few Green Party volunteers.” Surprisingly, the Greens were not challenged this time around. “Some Republicans, who said they couldn’t ‘stomach’ what their party was trying to do, helped us as well,” Minet added.
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You go over all the reasons they lost well enough, but still refuse to see that the LP had nothing to do with it.
You cannot continue to ask the voters to eat sh*t and then get mad when they go to the non-sh*t buffet next door.
You cannot continue to ask the voters to eat sh*t and then get mad when they go to the non-sh*t buffet next door.
You see it differently. George Bush was the equivalent of eating cardboard. Bill Clinton was equivalent of Eating Sh*t. The Libertarians chose a sh*t diet instead of a cardboard diet.
As bad as the carboard diet tasted, the sh*t diet was worse. Much worse.
Do you know what happens if people stop voting Party and start voting principles? The Libertarian would win...
Of the three candidates qualified for enough ballots to win the election, only Johnson has the least amount of sh*t stuck to him compared to the other two...
Run as Republicans.
Run as Republicans.
Gary Johnson is as far removed from Obama as you can get. What planet do you call home?
This isn't a high school football game and your comment borders on insanity.
Do you know what happens if people stop voting Party and start voting principles? The Libertarian would win...
Of the three candidates qualified for enough ballots to win the election, only Johnson has the least amount of sh*t stuck to him compared to the other two...
I can see we are going to disagree on this. Backing a candidate that cannot possibly win is not a stand on principles unless it can bring about some sort of positive change. (Like the Alamo) If it brings about no positive change, it is a useless and futile gesture. It is the embodiment of the theory that "the Perfect is the enemy of the good."
When you are faced with a crowd that is choosing between a murderer or a thief, you pick the thief.
Libertarians are folk that happen to think they are smarter than several thousand years worth of experience.
Libertarians are the commandos for the left, they talk conservative economics while fighting for leftist attacks on American society and culture.
Wow proabortion and homosexual marriage, open borders people right here at FR.
Anti-Roe v Wade is proabortion? Anti-welfare is pro-open borders?
You are still a jacka$$...
Maybe we need more Romneycare, more Federal funding for abortion mills, and more gun control as Willard has a record of supporting...
Clinton didn’t get 50% during either election, and in my dumb opinion he would have lost if Ross wasn’t involved, and as for McCain your probaly right, but dont forget the 6 years the media did everything in there power to destroy bush and the republicans.
Wanting to end any and all restraints, limits, or restrictions on all abortion, is pro-abortion.
Wanting to open the borders entirely and shut down the Border Patrol and the INS, is pro-open borders.
Wasting people’s time by ignoring actual posts and rewriting them as fake straw dogs and name calling, is just old fashioned lying and childish.
When you get around to posting actual facts, let me know. Your shtick is pretty threadbare..
Yes Clinton won 42.7% in 1992, Perot made him president.
The strongest showing in Libertarian Party history, was when they mounted their attack to stop Reagan in 1980.
I post the facts all the time.
Libertarian position on abortion, in plain language—Abortion; zero restrictions or impediments.
In the formal platform language—
ABORTION:
Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.
In the formal platform language—
IMMIGRATION:
The Issue: We welcome all refugees to our country and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new “Berlin Wall” which would keep them captive. We condemn the U.S. government’s policy of barring those refugees from our country and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects.
The Principle: We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. Undocumented non-citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration must not be restricted for reasons of race, religion, political creed, age or sexual preference. We oppose government welfare and resettlement payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons.
Solutions: We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress free enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics.
Transitional Action: We call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally.
Yes. We’ve been over that and why you are still an idiot.
End welfare and you’d only have those waiting to become Americans coming here.
End the War on Guns and you’d be able to defend yourself against sudden jihad syndrome.
End our campaign of playing Globo-cop and we’d have fewer terrorist attacks.
Not all libertarians are pro-abortion. I’m very pro-life as we’ve discussed before. All want Roe v Wade over turned...
But, as I’ve said before... We’ve been over all of this.
You pretended not to know the party platform on abortion and immigration, and started with the childish insults that seem to mix with the childish fantasies of your party.
You pretend that ending welfare will happen, while you know for a fact that your agenda for open borders is an actual, real life possibility and could happen soon, as your party calls for opening up this nation to the entire world’s population without controls and limits, while closing down the Border Patrol and INS.
The libertarian party platform is CLEAR on abortion, ZERO LIMITS, ZERO HURDLES, ZERO OBSTRUCTIONS, ZERO LAWS.
ABORTION:
Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.
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