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Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson, sends a powerful message. Who here is not moved by it?

Posted by $ puzzlelady 9 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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This is the message we've been waiting for. The opening scene looks familiar.

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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Islam is the certain exception.

    "Fight and slay the infidels!" It couldn't be any clearer.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Former enemies can become future friends and trading partners, to wit Germany, Japan, China. Behaving as enemies towards others is not the way to move towards peace. The full story on the WTC has yet to be told. But the million corpses we have caused in Iraq and other countries will not soon be forgotten. A new, non-aggressive policy is the only path to start healing those rifts.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He won in a Democrat stronghold. He needs to repeat that feat, taking all the dissatisfied voters from both GOP and Dems.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks.
    The last time New Mexico came under my radar was when my family came down with food poisoning in Santa Fe. But that was 40 or so years ago. (Glad I didn't order the shrimp.)
    He doesn't seem to mention it much. Thanks for the info.
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  • Posted by Kittyhawk 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    To get Gary Johnson more exposure, you can do anything from sharing his video and website on social media and in emails, to volunteering for your local Libertarian party to make calls or knock on doors to hand out campaign literature, or put a bumper sticker on your car and a sign in your yard. And of course spread the word in person to family, friends, people in the store checkout line, etc. And donating to his campaign so it can buy ads is always an option.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago
    He is governor of what state? It seems to be a secret.
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  • Posted by DeanStriker 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Having been a Libertarian since it's beginnings, while watching us go nowhere, and seeing Gary garner only a bit more of 1% of the vote against the Dems and the ABO crowd voting 98% to nail down collectivism in America should tell everyone something! Pray for the Great Collapse, which may hold the only solution for this Puzzle. shoving all the Rulers out of business.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We don't have to sit back and stay victims by doing nothing. Has the status quo really rendered so many of us defeatists? More people need to hear they have another choice. We can make this message go viral.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    haven't looked at the details of that, but polls are too easy to manipulate if you have the money and inclination.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Look at the popular support for Bernie Sanders, though. He got over 80% of the 18-30 vote. Unless I am wrong, an admitted socialist hasnt gotten that much support in many many years
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Look what happened to Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and the other Libertarian candidates in past elections"
    Times change. More people are becoming aware of the statist con every day.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No way would Trump do worse than Hillary. He would do less damage than Hillary in economic and foreign affairs terms for sure.

    Johnson would no doubt be better than any of them, and I wish he could be elected. But if you consider how people are elected in this country at this time, there is just no way that he would actually be elected- even if all the freedom loving citizens voted for him. There just arent enough of us to make that kind of difference at this point in time. Look what happened to Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and the other Libertarian candidates in past elections. They get so few votes compared with the statist entitled peoples that it hardly registers on the electoral college tally.

    Given that your or my vote is a drop in the bucket, it wont hurt you to vote for Gary Johnson. Either Trump or Sanders I think will win this election no matter what we do.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Since that still puts him far higher up the ladder than the opposing choices......the rest is a non starter Both the government party candidates are left of center. they have formed a coalition of like beliefs.

    What he's asking is form a coalition of opposite beliefs.

    anything else at this point is unacceptable.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think we will both have to be patient, Herb. However, if the Gulch invited Johnson to come for AMA, I would not be surprised if he did. Rand Paul set an example to follow. (Did the polls go up after Rand was here?) I would guess sooner would be more likely than later.
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