Gary Johnson ended up taking more votes away from Hillary than Trump.
And ended up not getting that many anyway.
Posted on 12/03/2018 8:35:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
1. The "deep state" was already there before he arrived.
2. Its impact on most Americans didn't really become obvious until the internet age and the implications of the PATRIOT Act on advanced forms of communication.
“Jack booted Thugs”
Gary Johnson ended up taking more votes away from Hillary than Trump.
And ended up not getting that many anyway.
Why Bush 41, a Great President, Won Only One Term""A thousand points of light"
He was NOT a great President. And America decided if we had to have a Democrat for President, We'd elect a real one.
If it wasn't for Reagan he would never have been VP and then President...Never happen.
Only a few of the reasons.
Bullbleep.....Bush started backtracking on Reagan’s accomplishments before the ink had dried on his inauguration paperwork. THAT is why he lost.
Ever since Ronald Reagan had to demand that the mic in front of him be turned on, my distrust for GHWB began. By the time his first term was over, so was the interest in New World Order, Kinder Gentler Nation and no NEW TAXES, America was looking for a new kind of distrust that Bush didn’t offer.
In terms of the fall of the Berlin Wall and of the Soviet Union, Bush was just at the right place at the right time to watch and minimally interfere when it happened - it was the endpoint of a process that his predecessor set in motion. To say that he was responsible for "winning the Cold War" is like saying that the purpose of a building is for the coat of paint on its roof.
On the domestic front, he was a Rockefeller Republican whose policies were little different from "moderate" Democrats. He raised taxes (should have come as no surprise after he called supply-side economics "voodoo economics"), attacked the NRA, opened our borders, and did many other things that wouldn't be out of place in the Clinton administration.
In Virginia 2013 Ken Cuccinelli lost to Terri Mcauliff (the Clinton lackey) because the libertarian siphoned away some support.
Virginia Gubernatorial General Election, 2013
Democratic
Terry McAuliffe
47.8%
1,069,789
Republican
Ken Cuccinelli
45.2%
1,013,354
Libertarian
Robert Sarvis
6.5%
146,084
N/A
Write-in
0.5%
11,087
Total Votes
2,240,314
Election Results via Virginia State Board of Elections.
Read my lips! Ross Perot
Great Presidents don’t sell their nation away to the New World Order, Jay.
Bwahahaha!!!
Could the NR be any more exposed than it already has been???
Wasn’t he being condemned as a serial groped by the metoos a year ago?
Thanks!
I should have done my own research.
This article is worth reading by those who still believe the "Perot gave us Clinton" myth.
We are once again treated to endless disrespectful rounds of I am more conservative than thou virtue signaling against a great man George Bush Sr.
The parades of critics here prefer Michael DukakKkis and Bill Clinton.
Those were the options in 88 and 92.
Let’s stop pretending that Bush was a conspiracy against conservatives. The character assassination of Bush and Quayle in 92 was the beginning of the essential culture war we are now experiencing.
The townhall debate style was literally invented to help Clinton win.
Fight true enemies. Do not be deceived.
Things were going pretty well until it was revealed the VP couldn’t spell potatoe......media spent days, maybe weeks, hashing that one over.
He was not a great POTUS.
Bush was a sitting president that won only 37.4% of the popular vote in esentially a 3 way race.
That’s not Perot’s fault. Bush was clearly rejected by the voters. Bush wasn’t winning in 1992 on his record.
He won one term because he did not show much interest in campaigning against Clinton until about 2 weeks before the election.
A couple of weeks after his loss, a reporter asked him why he didn’t campaign much. His response was that, as the incumbent, he thought he would win against the governor of Arkansas, so he didn’t see the need to campaign.
As the polls narrowed, he finally started, but it was too little, too late. And the ‘read my lips’ broken promise didn’t help him much either.
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