Posted on 05/27/2016 8:55:44 PM PDT by Trump20162020
ORLANDO, Fla. — It was supposed to be a stroke of genius: Gary Johnson, the 2012 Libertarian nominee for president and the party’s leading contender in 2016, announced that William Weld, the two-term former Republican governor of Massachusetts, would serve as his running mate.
The idea was clear and appealing. The pair would comprise a powerful two-governor ticket just as the leading Democratic and Republican contenders, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, rate as historically unpopular. The hope was they could emerge as a true third-party alternative.
But here in the corridors of the Rosen Centre Hotel and Resort at the Libertarian National Convention in Orlando, it could all fall apart as anti-authoritarian Libertarian Party activists, loath to be defined as “Republican-lite,” are increasingly and loudly critical of Weld, who joined their party only weeks ago.
Johnson seems to sense his dream ticket could be in trouble. The former two-term governor of New Mexico was booed at a convention forum on Thursday for calling Weld “the original libertarian.”
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Weld was the tax-and-spend-and-regulate governor of Massachusetts who made Mike Dukakis look better. Libertarian? Just because he’s pot-addled?
HE WAS A MISTAKE. GOV? ok
Description of that convention reminds of the inherent difficulties in herding cats.
per wiki:
“Weld co-chaired the Independent Task Force on North America under the Council on Foreign Relations, which studied the integration of the USA, Canada and Mexico.”
‘Nuff said.
The Libertarian Party would be much more powerful as a caucus in the Republican Party.
I could see the Libertarian and Conservative caucuses teaming up to destroy the Progressive Establishment caucus om the Republican Party.
By staying third party they actually hurt their cause. It only empowers the Democrats.
They’re both a mistake. Dumb and Dumber.
Interestingly enough, Heidi Cruz was on that very same “Task Force”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Task_Force_on_North_America#Task_Force_Members
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Anyone voting Libertarian is throwing their vote away.
We only have one real choice: Trump or Clinton. Make up your mind.
It’s the reason there never was nor will there ever be a libertarian “country”.
A country is defined by its values, it’s the glue that binds the people together. The libertarians are loathe to push values on anyone, therefore you end up with a constituency with such diverse values that it simply can’t be held together. Libertarians run the gamut from libertine democrats to amoral republicans to anarchists.
Herding cats is an appropriate analogy.
Did someone say, “Herding Cats?”
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=herding+cats&&view=detail&mid=BD960549657A057640E7BD960549657A057640E7&FORM=VRDGAR
Governor Weld Endorses Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeWroClQhbs&app=desktop
Yeah, that’s what this is really all about anyhow.
The Libertarians should just jump aboard the Trump train this year. Why otherwise waste their votes and risk electing Clinton?
Good one! Thanks.
The whole notion of third parties is stupid.
By the time election year rolls around, if you have something to say that the two major parties aren’t saying, it’s too late.
Hugh Hewitt is on suicide watch...
he actually said this team could get 15 % of the vote...
Is Levin/Beck still on this train off the cliff?
Pray America wakes
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