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Keyser Söze

On 3/23/15 5:01 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:25:19 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 3/23/15 12:57 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:16:46 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 3/23/15 11:50 AM, wrote:

Did you ever listen to Gary Johnson?

Yup. Perfectly decent guy. He'd have a chance running for the Democratic
nomination and presidency, but as a Libertarian nominee, he's never
going to get elected, and the Repugnants would never nominate him.

That is the problem with the two party system. If you don't fit into
their category exactly, you are out.
Johnson could run as a democrat in New Mexico or Montana but he
wouldn't stand a chance on either coast ... in either party.
He is too liberal for the republicans and to conservative for the
democrats.

It leaves people like me who are socially liberal and fiscally
conservative with no place to go.

Sure, a lib could win a statewide race or even a congressional district
rate but I don't see anything more than a "spoiler" against the total
vote in a national race. In a parliamentary system, which we don't have,
the lib party might do ok.

The biggest problem libertarians have is they do not draw the
corporate bribe money the Ds and Rs get because part of their fiscal
policy is cutting the corporate welfare from the government.

That may be *a* problem libertarians have, but I don't believe it is
*the* problem.

*The* problem, in my opinion, is that any number of libertarian
candidates for high office are crackpots and therefore in the minds of
the average voters, the libertarian party and its candidates are mostly
crackpots.

The GOP, of course, is also infested with crackpots, but on the national
ticket, they typically do not pick one as the standard bearer except, of
course, in 2008, when MooseMama made it onto the ticket.

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Proud to be a Liberal.