Posted on 06/01/2016 6:35:42 AM PDT by Cyberman
On Sunday, Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, won the Libertarian Party nomination for president with former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld as his vice president.
Johnson is an impassioned proponent of the party's small government message, and he told the crowd he thinks most people are Libertarians but don't know it. At a news conference, he made a play for tea party voters, saying what started out as a fiscal, small-government movement was captured by Republicans, especially social conservative....
Johnson and Weld have more executive governing experience than the two major candidates. They currently draw 10 percent in many national polls. Both major parties will attempt to ignore them, but the media--reeling from Donald Trump's exploitation of their thirst for ratings in the primary season — should think carefully about how to cover Johnson-Weld....
In sum, this is an election like no other we have seen in generations. The major parties are splintered. A non-politician, nonconservative won the GOP's nomination. The least the media can do is not prejudge the result nor prevent two perfectly qualified, accomplished governors from making their case to the voters.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Press: Wow, it looks like Trump could win. Wait! I know! isnt there a third party out there that we’ve refused to cover for several generations now? They’re sort of conservative, what with the small government, more freedom stuff and all. This election let’s elevate them to equal status. Then if they siphon off enough votes to wreck Trump we can go back to pretending they don’t exist.
They are trying to eek a loss for the Donald, Or at least keep him below a 50% Mandate! I got these Son's a biscuits figured out, they are in full throttle mode because they know he can win and it may in fact be a blowout and they can't stand the concept of that...
From the article: “Johnson and Weld have more executive governing experience than the two major candidates.”
The Washington Post doesn’t get the message from the people, at least in the GOP primaries. The people want less government, not governing experience. If they were looking for governing experience Jeb Bush would be the nominee.
The Post also forgets that experience in a subject does not equate to performance. It can assist performance but history shows many experienced people fail. Ask experienced wonder executive John Sculley about running Apple or experienced governor Jimmy Carter about serving as president.
Libertarians will melt down over the ideology of globalization. They are social progressives, anti-Christian to the max.
Christian libertarians are like infidels in the party. They have to pretend they have no Western morals or ethics in American life and policy. Which makes them non-Christians at the governing level. They dare not question the social banshees of destruction within the party. They must pretend to be atheists.
Yep, when they claim most folks are libertarian but don't know it, they forget that there's "libertarian" and then there's libertarian. His idea is that if one espouses even one philosophical idea of a set of folks (libertarian/conservative, etc.) then that makes them able to claim that they are full-fledged. That would make our Mulatto pres Black and Mitch McConnell conservative.....
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