2012 Presidential Election (free for all edition)

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Who Is Gary Johnson? And Why Is the GOP So Mad at Him? | TIME.com

The GOP isn’t ignoring him anymore. Now that Johnson is threatening to siphon votes from Mitt Romney in close elections in Colorado and Nevada (he’s also on the ballot in 46 other states and Washington, D.C.), Republicans are doing whatever they can to limit his appeal. Michigan party officials kept him off the ballot because he filed his paperwork three minutes late. In Pennsylvania, the GOP hired a private detective who went to canvassers’ homes and flashed his old FBI badge before questioning the signatures they collected, a lawyer for Johnson’s campaign alleged. The state GOP and the investigator denied doing anything improper. (On Oct. 10 a judge decided that Johnson will be on the Pennsylvania ballot.) The experience has left Johnson, 59, alienated from some of his old comrades—which, it turns out, he doesn’t mind at all. “Going to Republican events, as I did a zillion times, I listened to Republican candidates do their spiel. I cringed at a lot of what they said, whether it was abortion, the terrorist threat, the homophobia, the ‘illegal immigrant is the source of all our problems’—man, that stuff made me crazy. The kook element of the Libertarians gets up, and I don’t cringe.”

“Ron Paul is a social conservative,” he says. “I’m not. Ron Paul would talk about legalizing marijuana, but he’s never smoked marijuana.”

Brilliant.

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Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Who Is Gary Johnson? And Why Is the GOP So Mad at Him? | TIME.com









Brilliant.

Brilliant? At best he might get 1% of the vote and its brilliant? Look at the crowed in the pick its all males under the age 25 looks like a ph. I could voted for a libertarian but not one that drives around with rafity all over his van and a pic of him smoking a joint. Who the hell would take the serious and it explaisn why he can't get mre then 1% of the vote. Just saying you want to make pot legal gets you that many votes.

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Originally Posted by firstdown

Brilliant? At best he might get 1% of the vote and its brilliant? Look at the crowed in the pick its all males under the age 25 looks like a ph. I could voted for a libertarian but not one that drives around with rafity all over his van and a pic of him smoking a joint. Who the hell would take the serious and it explaisn why he can't get mre then 1% of the vote. Just saying you want to make pot legal gets you that many votes.

The quote was brilliant in case you missed it, but I guess that was hard to decipher and pick up on. Who gives a **** how many people are going to vote for him. Most idiots voting have no clue what their candidate stands for. They vote for a party. So a person having the more votes really doesn't say much about the voting population either.

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Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Who Is Gary Johnson? And Why Is the GOP So Mad at Him? | TIME.com

Brilliant.

I voted for Gary Johnson but only because I live in Georgia and Romney is a very safe bet to win the state. So it gives me a chance to send a message to the GOP that their are people like me that want more freedom on social issues and for the country to take a step back from policing the world. You know the way Republicans were before the Far Right Evangelicals and warhawks took over.

Had I lived in a battleground state no way I would have voted for Johnson but being in a solid red state I am afforded some flexibility.