Gary Johnson

[Votto]

Gary Johson won over one million votes in the Presidential election, the most ever by the Libertarian party.

Congrats Gary!!

 

[Mac1958]

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Woot!



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[konradv]

Gary Johson won over one million votes in the Presidential election, the most ever by the Libertarian party.

Congrats Gary!!

With 15M fewer votes for the major parties, you'd think he would have done better. The people that were turned off by both candidates didn't vote for Johnson, they stayed home.

 

[rightwinger]

Johnson sucked big time. Less than one percent of the vote

Pathetic third party attempt

 

[Sherry]

Perot had over 19 million votes; 18% of the vote.

 

[AmyNation]

Johnson didn't do well.

I was sure he'd pull a lot more than that :/

 

[rightwinger]

Uninspiring by Johnson

Libertarians are a nonentity in this country

 

[ShackledNation]

As a college student, my professor questioned me one day, asking about my views. I told her I was a libertarian, which she generalized as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I accept her definition (despite my many reservations about it). She then told me that a very large number of students nowadays have similar inclinations. They don't fit the stereotypical mold at all.

So to say libertarians are a nonentity is a bit off base, to say the least. I would say libertarians are the silent majority.

 

[Dreamy]

As a college student, my professor questioned me one day, asking about my views. I told her I was a libertarian, which she generalized as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I accept her definition (despite my many reservations about it). She then told me that a very large number of students nowadays have similar inclinations. They don't fit the stereotypical mold at all.

So to say libertarians are a nonentity is a bit off base, to say the least. I would say libertarians are the silent majority.

I think there are many of us out there who do not fit the stereotypes the parties want to slap on people. I am not silent nor libertarian but your point is well taken.

 

[rightwinger]

As a college student, my professor questioned me one day, asking about my views. I told her I was a libertarian, which she generalized as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I accept her definition (despite my many reservations about it). She then told me that a very large number of students nowadays have similar inclinations. They don't fit the stereotypical mold at all.

So to say libertarians are a nonentity is a bit off base, to say the least. I would say libertarians are the silent majority.

Who managed to pull one percent of the vote

I am unimpressed

 

[Mac1958]

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What this country needs is people who wander in to the polling booth and automatically vote for anyone and everyone who has either an (R) or a (D) after their name, because that keeps things nice and simple.

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[Dreamy]

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What this country needs is people who wander in to the polling booth and automatically vote for anyone and everyone who has either an (R) or a (D) after their name, because that keeps things nice and simple.

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I voted my choice on every part of my ballot, every candidate and ballot question. I thought everyone did.

 

[aaronleland]

I would venture to guess that alot of the nonvoters in this country have Libertarian inclinations. They are marginalized by the two party system, and rather than make a protest vote they just stay home on election day.

 

[SniperFire]

As a college student, my professor questioned me one day, asking about my views. I told her I was a libertarian, which she generalized as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I accept her definition (despite my many reservations about it). She then told me that a very large number of students nowadays have similar inclinations. They don't fit the stereotypical mold at all.

So to say libertarians are a nonentity is a bit off base, to say the least. I would say libertarians are the silent majority.

I would say that is laughable. Libertarian sounds kewl until you actually are presented with real world problems and flawed human beings.

For example, In last night's Libertarian thread, we learned that Libertarians would support the migration of 300 million, or more, third world shithole citizens from Mexico and Central America flooding our borders and squating down, turning us too into a third world shithole.

There is nothing majority opinion about that, and this is just one example of why Libertarian philosophy manifests itself as a sad joke in actual application.

 

[konradv]

As a college student, my professor questioned me one day, asking about my views. I told her I was a libertarian, which she generalized as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I accept her definition (despite my many reservations about it). She then told me that a very large number of students nowadays have similar inclinations. They don't fit the stereotypical mold at all.

So to say libertarians are a nonentity is a bit off base, to say the least. I would say libertarians are the silent majority.

Everybody has libertarian leanings when they're college students. It's the result of limited life experiences. When I was in college, I thought Ayn Rand was cool! Usually though, as one grows older, one realizes that, like Marxism, in order for Libertarianism to work a basic shift in human nature would have to occur. Marxists expect everyone to work for the greater good, ignoring the fact that most humans will do very little work at all, if not rewarded appropriately for the work they do. Libertarians, on the other hand, expect most transactions to be accomplished on a person-to-person basis without outside interference, forgetting that inevitably a certain percentage of the strong will take advantage of the weak creating a neo-feudalistic society in which many are powerless to better themselves in any significant manner.

 

[Paulie]

Gary Johson won over one million votes in the Presidential election, the most ever by the Libertarian party.

Congrats Gary!!

With 15M fewer votes for the major parties, you'd think he would have done better. The people that were turned off by both candidates didn't vote for Johnson, they stayed home.

Those would be the majority of the Ron Paul supporters that had been saying they would do that. I'm one of them.

The GOP didn't want to welcome them in and give some concessions, and they lost a huge opportunity because of it.

 

[Dreamy]

Are some of you implying one must ALWAYS vote for one of the two major party candidates?

Why?

 

[Paulie]

As a college student, my professor questioned me one day, asking about my views. I told her I was a libertarian, which she generalized as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I accept her definition (despite my many reservations about it). She then told me that a very large number of students nowadays have similar inclinations. They don't fit the stereotypical mold at all.

So to say libertarians are a nonentity is a bit off base, to say the least. I would say libertarians are the silent majority.

Who managed to pull one percent of the vote

I am unimpressed

No one gives a fuck what you are or how you feel. The sooner you get over yourself and realize that the better off you'll be.

 

[ShackledNation]

As a college student, my professor questioned me one day, asking about my views. I told her I was a libertarian, which she generalized as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I accept her definition (despite my many reservations about it). She then told me that a very large number of students nowadays have similar inclinations. They don't fit the stereotypical mold at all.

So to say libertarians are a nonentity is a bit off base, to say the least. I would say libertarians are the silent majority.

Who managed to pull one percent of the vote

I am unimpressed

In the context of the way the current system is set up and the limitation put on third parties, 1% is not unimpressive. If you also factor in the amount of money spent by Johnson vs Obama and Romney, Gary got far more bang for his buck than the others.

 

[konradv]

I would venture to guess that alot of the nonvoters in this country have Libertarian inclinations. They are marginalized by the two party system, and rather than make a protest vote they just stay home on election day.

Just about everybody has libertarian inclinations. Nobody likes being told what to do all the time. Most of us realize, however, without rules the strong can easily take advantage of the weak and no amount of Libertarian Party platitudes to the contrary is going to change that.