Big and Brass I Found the Real Johnson Interview and it appears....maybe See what you think. Hope springs eternal. Comment Follows
I redacted the first part which is background and marijuana if of interest go the URL below.
Harwood: It seems to me not to be an accident that the two halves of your ticket are both former Republican governors. What does that tell you about the Republican Party, that that's what's ended up on the Libertarian ticket?
JOHNSON: Thirty percent of Republicans believe the scourge of the Earth is Mexican immigration. What's the reason for why I don't have a job? Well, make, make Mexican immigration the scapegoat for that. I understand why there's that sentiment. And there's a logic to the fact that they're coming over. They're taking our jobs. They're taking, you know, they're siphoning off our welfare system.
When the reality is anything but. They are not taking jobs that U.S. citizens want. They're the cream of the crop when it comes to workers. And they are contributing to the economy.
"I've been a self-declared Libertarian since 1971. What was the old saying? That if you weren't a Democrat in college, you didn't have a heart. And if you weren't a Republican in later life, you didn't have a brain. Well, I happen to think libertarian kind of encompasses hearts and brains both. And that's what we all are about." -Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate
HARWOOD: Do you see [Donald] Trump as a freak event within the Republican Party? Or does his emergence say something about where the Republican Party has gravitated to?
JOHNSON: He's tapped into that anger. But that is not, in my opinion, representative of the majority of the Republican Party. And where's that representation? Well, I think it's me. I think it's me right now. It's the Libertarian Party. It's a big six-lane highway down the middle that Bill Weld and myself are occupying.
I've been a self-declared Libertarian since 1971. What was the old saying? That if you weren't a Democrat in college, you didn't have a heart. And if you weren't a Republican in later life, you didn't have a brain.
Well, I happen to think libertarian kind of encompasses hearts and brains both. And that's what we all are about.
HARWOOD: Isn't your problem that on economic policy, Americans who are feeling stagnant in this economy want more from government, not less?
JOHNSON: You could be right. But if Bernie Sanders supporters, and this is my hypothesis [also believe] that if you're looking for opportunity equality, that is something that's achievable.
Nothing is free. Was there anything that Hillary [Clinton] didn't promise in her acceptance speech to anybody?
Libertarian presisdential candidate Gary Johnson speaks with John Harwood
Mary Stevens | CNBC
Libertarian presisdential candidate Gary Johnson speaks with John Harwood
HARWOOD: Do you think that there's no reason to raise taxes on anyone, including the most affluent people in the country?
JOHNSON: I'm not getting elected dictator or king. But if I could wave a magic wand, I would eliminate income tax. I would eliminate corporate tax. And I would replace it with one federal consumption tax.
HARWOOD: What happens to Wall Street regulation and Dodd-Frank specifically under Gary Johnson?
JOHNSON: Well, I would love to scrap it and get rid of it.
HARWOOD: The Libertarian platform calls for phasing out the Social Security system.
JOHNSON: I don't agree completely with the platform of the Libertarian Party. And how could you phase out Social Security? I don't see that happening, but there does need to be reform to Social Security.
"This is the demise of the Republican Party. This is an opportunity, I think, for the Libertarian Party to become a major party." -Gary Johnson on the state of the GOP if Clinton wins and Trump loses.
HARWOOD: Is it part of your objective to do something that sets off a chain of events that busts up the two-party system as we now know it?
JOHNSON: Maybe we're there already. I mean, maybe that's going to be the consequence of what we do — at a minimum.
HARWOOD: Let's say Hillary Clinton's elected, and you have a solid showing. Trump loses. Where does the Republican Party go after that?
JOHNSON: This is the demise of the Republican Party. This is an opportunity, I think, for the Libertarian Party to become a major party.
HARWOOD: We're sitting in one of the most beautiful areas of the country. What would you do about climate?
JOHNSON: I do think that climate change is occurring, that it is man-caused. One of the proposals that I think is a very libertarian proposal, and I'm just open to this, is taxing carbon emission that may have the result of being self-regulating.
HARWOOD: So you agree with the people who say the answer is to put a price on carbon and then the market will take care of it.
JOHNSON: The market will take care of it. I mean, when you look at it from the standpoint of better results, and actually less money to achieve those results, that's what is being professed by a carbon tax.
HARWOOD: You would like that better than, say, the Obama clean power plan?
JOHNSON: Well yes. My understanding of carbon tax is that it can accomplish all these things in a very free market way. Coal is a great free market example right now. You and I do not want carbon emission. We don't want it. right now. Natural gas costs less than coal. So there are no new coal plants that are going to be built, given the price of natural gas. And that's something that you and I desire. So it's happening. I'm afraid that coal, from a free market standpoint, has been done in.
HARWOOD: You are drawing about 10 percent in our most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
JOHNSON: None of the polls being conducted right now have us on the top line. None of them. It's always Trump and Clinton and then second question, third question, "Well, what if you add Johnson-Weld?" And then 99 percent of the media just reports line one. Well — I thought it was interesting over the weekend, Colorado came in at 15 percent.
All of our analytics, all of our social media analytics suggest that we're going to continue this. We have not topped out in any way. And right now today, 60 percent of Americans don't even know who we are. So back to if we were just on the top line, and I recognize that a lot of that has to do with just how polarizing the two of them are. But people don't realize that there is another choice.
HARWOOD: The history of third party candidates is that they go down as we get closer to the election. Only one time has a Libertarian nominee gotten 1 percent of the vote.
JOHNSON: Politics is momentum. And we have right now straight line momentum.
HARWOOD: So you think that 10 percent can become what by November?
JOHNSON: I do think there's a better than 50 percent chance that we'll be in the presidential debates. If we're not in the presidential debates, hey, no chance of winning. No chance.
"I don't have an issue with 15 percent. But shouldn't the polls include my name on the top line? And shouldn't it be reported top line? That's my only issue. Fifteen percent? Not an issue." -Gary Johnson on the polling threshold to join the presidential debates.
HARWOOD: Do you accept that the 15 percent threshold (to qualify for the debates) is going to hold?
JOHNSON: I don't have an issue with 15 percent. But shouldn't the polls include my name on the top line? And shouldn't it be reported top line? That's my only issue. Fifteen percent? Not an issue.
HARWOOD: Let's say you get to 15 percent and you're in the debates.
JOHNSON: We could win.
Harwood: It seems to me not to be an accident that the two halves of your ticket are both former Republican governors. What does that tell you about the Republican Party, that that's what's ended up on the Libertarian ticket?
JOHNSON: Thirty percent of Republicans believe the scourge of the Earth is Mexican immigration. What's the reason for why I don't have a job? Well, make, make Mexican immigration the scapegoat for that. I understand why there's that sentiment. And there's a logic to the fact that they're coming over. They're taking our jobs. They're taking, you know, they're siphoning off our welfare system.
When the reality is anything but. They are not taking jobs that U.S. citizens want. They're the cream of the crop when it comes to workers. And they are contributing to the economy.
"I've been a self-declared Libertarian since 1971. What was the old saying? That if you weren't a Democrat in college, you didn't have a heart. And if you weren't a Republican in later life, you didn't have a brain. Well, I happen to think libertarian kind of encompasses hearts and brains both. And that's what we all are about." -Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate
HARWOOD: Do you see [Donald] Trump as a freak event within the Republican Party? Or does his emergence say something about where the Republican Party has gravitated to?
JOHNSON: He's tapped into that anger. But that is not, in my opinion, representative of the majority of the Republican Party. And where's that representation? Well, I think it's me. I think it's me right now. It's the Libertarian Party. It's a big six-lane highway down the middle that Bill Weld and myself are occupying.
I've been a self-declared Libertarian since 1971. What was the old saying? That if you weren't a Democrat in college, you didn't have a heart. And if you weren't a Republican in later life, you didn't have a brain.
Well, I happen to think libertarian kind of encompasses hearts and brains both. And that's what we all are about.
HARWOOD: Isn't your problem that on economic policy, Americans who are feeling stagnant in this economy want more from government, not less?
JOHNSON: You could be right. But if Bernie Sanders supporters, and this is my hypothesis [also believe] that if you're looking for opportunity equality, that is something that's achievable.
Nothing is free. Was there anything that Hillary [Clinton] didn't promise in her acceptance speech to anybody?
Libertarian presisdential candidate Gary Johnson speaks with John Harwood
Mary Stevens | CNBC
Libertarian presisdential candidate Gary Johnson speaks with John Harwood
HARWOOD: Do you think that there's no reason to raise taxes on anyone, including the most affluent people in the country?
JOHNSON: I'm not getting elected dictator or king. But if I could wave a magic wand, I would eliminate income tax. I would eliminate corporate tax. And I would replace it with one federal consumption tax.
HARWOOD: What happens to Wall Street regulation and Dodd-Frank specifically under Gary Johnson?
JOHNSON: Well, I would love to scrap it and get rid of it.
HARWOOD: The Libertarian platform calls for phasing out the Social Security system.
JOHNSON: I don't agree completely with the platform of the Libertarian Party. And how could you phase out Social Security? I don't see that happening, but there does need to be reform to Social Security.
"This is the demise of the Republican Party. This is an opportunity, I think, for the Libertarian Party to become a major party." -Gary Johnson on the state of the GOP if Clinton wins and Trump loses.
HARWOOD: Is it part of your objective to do something that sets off a chain of events that busts up the two-party system as we now know it?
JOHNSON: Maybe we're there already. I mean, maybe that's going to be the consequence of what we do — at a minimum.
HARWOOD: Let's say Hillary Clinton's elected, and you have a solid showing. Trump loses. Where does the Republican Party go after that?
JOHNSON: This is the demise of the Republican Party. This is an opportunity, I think, for the Libertarian Party to become a major party.
HARWOOD: We're sitting in one of the most beautiful areas of the country. What would you do about climate?
JOHNSON: I do think that climate change is occurring, that it is man-caused. One of the proposals that I think is a very libertarian proposal, and I'm just open to this, is taxing carbon emission that may have the result of being self-regulating.
HARWOOD: So you agree with the people who say the answer is to put a price on carbon and then the market will take care of it.
JOHNSON: The market will take care of it. I mean, when you look at it from the standpoint of better results, and actually less money to achieve those results, that's what is being professed by a carbon tax.
HARWOOD: You would like that better than, say, the Obama clean power plan?
JOHNSON: Well yes. My understanding of carbon tax is that it can accomplish all these things in a very free market way. Coal is a great free market example right now. You and I do not want carbon emission. We don't want it. right now. Natural gas costs less than coal. So there are no new coal plants that are going to be built, given the price of natural gas. And that's something that you and I desire. So it's happening. I'm afraid that coal, from a free market standpoint, has been done in.
HARWOOD: You are drawing about 10 percent in our most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
JOHNSON: None of the polls being conducted right now have us on the top line. None of them. It's always Trump and Clinton and then second question, third question, "Well, what if you add Johnson-Weld?" And then 99 percent of the media just reports line one. Well — I thought it was interesting over the weekend, Colorado came in at 15 percent.
All of our analytics, all of our social media analytics suggest that we're going to continue this. We have not topped out in any way. And right now today, 60 percent of Americans don't even know who we are. So back to if we were just on the top line, and I recognize that a lot of that has to do with just how polarizing the two of them are. But people don't realize that there is another choice.
HARWOOD: The history of third party candidates is that they go down as we get closer to the election. Only one time has a Libertarian nominee gotten 1 percent of the vote.
JOHNSON: Politics is momentum. And we have right now straight line momentum.
HARWOOD: So you think that 10 percent can become what by November?
JOHNSON: I do think there's a better than 50 percent chance that we'll be in the presidential debates. If we're not in the presidential debates, hey, no chance of winning. No chance.
"I don't have an issue with 15 percent. But shouldn't the polls include my name on the top line? And shouldn't it be reported top line? That's my only issue. Fifteen percent? Not an issue." -Gary Johnson on the polling threshold to join the presidential debates.
HARWOOD: Do you accept that the 15 percent threshold (to qualify for the debates) is going to hold?
JOHNSON: I don't have an issue with 15 percent. But shouldn't the polls include my name on the top line? And shouldn't it be reported top line? That's my only issue. Fifteen percent? Not an issue.
HARWOOD: Let's say you get to 15 percent and you're in the debates.
JOHNSON: We could win.
This is the URL that would have popped up with an extra 17 seconds of work. The original quote and it's written nd also the interview is a clip.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/22/libert...
I redacted the first part to meet the 5000 character rule it's about their stand on marijuana and drugs if that is of interest the meat of the subject is reproduced in the following. To me it's not a huge important issue as much as is preserving the Constitutional Republic nor is taking whatever steps are necessary and using whatever means are necessary and I see that as a morally correct choice.
I still don't see any realistic chance as the two front runner opposition candidates seemed uable to connect. The votes with the two together somehow would turn the trick and attract more support. Not doing that IS a problem it shows on both their parts a lack of willilngness to put the sacred ground of each at the top of the list and put the machts nichts stuff to the side. Johnson is still hoping to show maybe close to 15% and Trump is around 40% Do the math. If some appropriate deal can be worked out it would be Johnson in the limelight for later but either way it would show their party has made some headway and gotten somewhere .
Anywayi here's what you were supposes to find. The rest is just reviewing the polls and looking aqt averages not just the cherry picking. I'll try to get some of that posted this evening to round out the information.
The way to get ahead is to give as many people as possible their first taste of being represented in decades. And i's a morally right thing to do.
It boils down to Constiutional Republic versus Socialist Autocracy.
(Don't expect the "Lib Party" to stay up all night reading the Gulch;^)
We don't get Constitutional Republic regardless of who is POTUS. The corrupt con-gress and the body of existing laws do not allow it. Johnson is a step in that direction. Chump and Shitlary are not.