Can anyone really argue Gary Johnson is not the best candidate on the ballot?

[LaDexter]

Compare that record to anyone else on the ballot and, without a doubt, the above is the best candidate by far, with the best resume, and the only candidate who isn't some form of monster - sorry, Ms. Stein, but the Constitution says I do have the right to ask

Why does one Earth polar circle, the Antarctic, have 9 times the ice of the other?


even if you think I should be prosecuted for askin...

 

[LaDexter]

So, in summary, Johnson is a decent, honest, meritorious candidate with an outstanding track record. The only "knock" on him comes from completely factless idiots who love the thought that our "Drug War" provides the worst criminal gangs in the world with billions of dollars every year, packs our prisons with non-violent "criminals," and enriches and empowers attorneys and other government scum. Such idiots are obsessed with hating marijuana users because their sub human birdbrains have "heard" from the "US media" and their Judaism funded/controlled "preacher" that marijuana is bad. Such sub humans are way too cowardly themselves to actually learn for themselves that marijuana is not dangerous, provides a great deal of medical use, and that legalizing it would put $300 billion per year in the US Treasury. Sub humans don't care about such things. Sub humans care about PARROTING and HATING, and have precisely no honor, no courage, no ability to think independently, and precisely zero patriotism to the United States. Their best use is for scientific research, namely eugenics...

 

[konradv]

Compare that record to anyone else on the ballot and, without a doubt, the above is the best candidate by far, with the best resume, and the only candidate who isn't some form of monster...

He's LP, which automatically makes him suspect. They're the flip side of the same coin the Marxists are on. Both philosophies require a basic change in human nature to work. Marxists get it wrong by believing people will work hard without there being a personal reward. Libertarians get it wrong by assuming without a strong government protecting them, the weak won't be tyrannized by the strong.

Critiques Of Libertarianism

 

[Montrovant]

Compare that record to anyone else on the ballot and, without a doubt, the above is the best candidate by far, with the best resume, and the only candidate who isn't some form of monster...

He's LP, which automatically makes him suspect. They're the flip side of the same coin the Marxists are on. Both philosophies require a basic change in human nature to work. Marxists get it wrong by believing people will work hard without there being a personal reward. Libertarians get it wrong by assuming without a strong government protecting them, the weak won't be tyrannized by the strong.

Critiques Of Libertarianism

Johnson isn't a 'hard core' libertarian, though. He's more of a moderate libertarian.

Perhaps more importantly, if Johnson were to become president, he wouldn't be able to implement all the policies he talks about. Congress would never go for many of the things he wants. Instead, the hope would be that having Johnson as president would push some incremental changes and show the American voters that a third party candidate can be a viable choice.

 

[Montrovant]

A candidate for whom there is no plausible scenario for his winning cannot be the best candidate on the ballot.

Why not? Is the only metric for what makes a candidate good their likelihood of winning? That's a pretty sad way to look at things. If fewer people did look at things that way, I think it would be better for the country.

 

[JoeMoma]

So no guarantee but a lot of speculation?

Anyone who guarantees you how others will vote is full of something... that does not smell good...

Johnson is by far the best candidate on the ballot. He should win on that basis - period

Then there is reality vs idealism.

When it comes to election results, reality is what voters make it.

 

[washamericom]

johnson can take hillary's place if the law ever catches up with her.

 

[JoeMoma]

No disrespect to Gary Johnson but saying he is the best candidate on this ballot is like being the tallest midget in the room it might be true but it didn't take much to accomplish it.

Perhaps, but we are left to choose from those that are on the ballot, unless an alternative enters via a write-in campaign.

 

[washamericom]

Compare that record to anyone else on the ballot and, without a doubt, the above is the best candidate by far, with the best resume, and the only candidate who isn't some form of monster...

He's LP, which automatically makes him suspect. They're the flip side of the same coin the Marxists are on. Both philosophies require a basic change in human nature to work. Marxists get it wrong by believing people will work hard without there being a personal reward. Libertarians get it wrong by assuming without a strong government protecting them, the weak won't be tyrannized by the strong.

Critiques Of Libertarianism

Johnson isn't a 'hard core' libertarian, though. He's more of a moderate libertarian.

Perhaps more importantly, if Johnson were to become president, he wouldn't be able to implement all the policies he talks about. Congress would never go for many of the things he wants. Instead, the hope would be that having Johnson as president would push some incremental changes and show the American voters that a third party candidate can be a viable choice.

isn't the idea of being libertarian to not be moderate ? it's like those bumper stickers from the sixties... question authority, which somehow became "yes we can".

i almost joined the vermont libertarians, but i told them i didn't want to belong to any group that would have me as a member.

 

[JoeMoma]

A candidate for whom there is no plausible scenario for his winning cannot be the best candidate on the ballot.

There is a plausible scenario for him winning. Both Trump and Hillary are underwater in the polls when it comes to favorability/honesty. If a majority of voters decide that they do not want Hilary or Trump, everything is in place for them to vote for Johnson. All they have to do it vote their conscience. The thing that is holding them back is the false belief that a third party candidate can't win. A third party candidate can win if enough people stop believing he/she cannot.

 

[konradv]

Compare that record to anyone else on the ballot and, without a doubt, the above is the best candidate by far, with the best resume, and the only candidate who isn't some form of monster...

He's LP, which automatically makes him suspect. They're the flip side of the same coin the Marxists are on. Both philosophies require a basic change in human nature to work. Marxists get it wrong by believing people will work hard without there being a personal reward. Libertarians get it wrong by assuming without a strong government protecting them, the weak won't be tyrannized by the strong.
Critiques Of Libertarianism

Johnson isn't a 'hard core' libertarian, though. He's more of a moderate libertarian. Perhaps more importantly, if Johnson were to become president, he wouldn't be able to implement all the policies he talks about. Congress would never go for many of the things he wants. Instead, the hope would be that having Johnson as president would push some incremental changes and show the American voters that a third party candidate can be a viable choice.

Would we be inclined to vote for a "moderate Marxist"? Both might sound good to some, but the devil is in the details.

 

[konradv]

A candidate for whom there is no plausible scenario for his winning cannot be the best candidate on the ballot.

There is a plausible scenario for him winning. Both Trump and Hillary are underwater in the polls when it comes to favorability/honesty. If a majority of voters decide that they do not want Hilary or Trump, everything is in place for them to vote for Johnson. All they have to do it vote their conscience. The thing that is holding them back is the false belief that a third party candidate can't win. A third party candidate can win if enough people stop believing he/she cannot.

Not this year.

 

[JoeMoma]

People think Hillary can win, even though there has never been a woman POTUS before. Just because something doesn't usually happen doesn't make it impossible.

 

[JoeMoma]

Compare that record to anyone else on the ballot and, without a doubt, the above is the best candidate by far, with the best resume, and the only candidate who isn't some form of monster...

He's LP, which automatically makes him suspect. They're the flip side of the same coin the Marxists are on. Both philosophies require a basic change in human nature to work. Marxists get it wrong by believing people will work hard without there being a personal reward. Libertarians get it wrong by assuming without a strong government protecting them, the weak won't be tyrannized by the strong.

Critiques Of Libertarianism

Libertarians don't believe in a strong government protecting the weak (Human rights)..... really? A government does not need to be into everything to be strong in the few limited things it should govern.

 

[JoeMoma]

A candidate for whom there is no plausible scenario for his winning cannot be the best candidate on the ballot.

There is a plausible scenario for him winning. Both Trump and Hillary are underwater in the polls when it comes to favorability/honesty. If a majority of voters decide that they do not want Hilary or Trump, everything is in place for them to vote for Johnson. All they have to do it vote their conscience. The thing that is holding them back is the false belief that a third party candidate can't win. A third party candidate can win if enough people stop believing he/she cannot.

Not this year.

Then we deserve either Hillary or Trump.

 

[LaDexter]

He's LP, which automatically makes him suspect.

Libertarians get it wrong by assuming without a strong government protecting them, the weak won't be tyrannized by the strong.

LOL!!!

Some people believe just the opposite, that the larger and "stronger" the government, the less safe the people are.... and never before has such strong evidence of this reality been right in front of everyone's eyes as the "period of American WO," the tenures of W and O, where the national debt quadrupled, government spending went from 25% to 50% of GDP, we watched our government send our troops to foreign land over 100% pure lies, and we got "homeland security," which is supposed to "protect us," but really only protects us from the truth. To undue the period of American WO, we need someone not cur from the same cloth.

 

[ChrisL]

Now they cannot, which is why they will try to convince you that by voting for Johnson, you are wasting your vote. Because that's all they really have.

 

[9thIDdoc]

Gary who? Candidate for what?

 

[Maryland Patriot]

He might well be the best, but since nobody has ever heard of him, its too much of a longshot.
he doesn't have a chance.
do you work for the Clinton campaign?

 

[jillian]

I mean, it isn't even close.

Gary had a great record in NM, is a decent, honest, and patriotic American.

He is head and shoulders above any candidate on the ballot. Literally, none of the others even reach his knees....

I'm sure he's a nice guy. but to vote for someone you have to agree with most of what they want

no?