http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-national/does-johnson-defection-doom-the-gop
The GOP seems ever divided into three segments – the Wall Street millionaire wing of Mitt Romney and New Gingrich, the Christian conservative wing of Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, and the libertarian-Constitutionalist wing of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson. If one-third of the Republican Party exits to support the former New Mexico governor in the Libertarian bid for President, whoever the GOP candidate is in November is doomed. And that brings up the crazy scenario written about in today’s above-mentioned Whiteout Press article titled, ‘Johnson Rocks GOP with Switch to Libertarian Party’. Whiteout Press is an independent news outlet and advocate for independent voters and candidates.
Two general election scenarios are taking shape at this early stage of the Presidential primary season – and both of them have been, and still are, unthinkable to the naïve national media and Washington insiders who are trying to orchestrate the entire process. Make no mistake, the producers and power-brokers of both major parties, are grossly underestimating the coming events.
Scenario 1 – Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination
The preordained outcome of the Republican primary is supposed to find Mitt Romney as the GOP Presidential nominee. Even if any other candidate out-votes the former Massachusetts Governor, there are enough mysterious ‘super delegates’ waiting to counter the voters’ delegates and insure Mr. Romney is the nominee. If and when that happens, something will occur that hasn’t happened in American politics in generations – A credible third-party candidate with a proven fundraising machine and a nationwide army of battle-hardened and experienced precinct workers will be on the ballot in November.
Unlike past credible independent runs for the White House like Ross Perot’s failed bid or John Anderson’s before him, Gary Johnson will have something that all Presidential candidates this cycle wish they had – Ron Paul’s campaign machine.
Since the news media likes to black-out both men’s campaigns, most election watchers aren’t aware that Ron Paul’s supporters and Gary Johnson’s supporters are one and the same. With Johnson running as a Libertarian in November instead of against Ron Paul and the rest of the GOP field in the primary, it creates a one-two punch for independents, libertarians and independent Republicans. If Ron Paul’s campaign for the Republican nomination fails, his entire election apparatus will walk directly to the Gary Johnson campaign and the Libertarian party for a second chance. You can bet on it. For those who don't remember, Ron Paul ran for President on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1988. With one-third of the Republican base jumping to the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson, the Republican Mitt Romney doesn’t stand a chance against President Obama in November.
Scenario 2 – Ron Paul wins the GOP nomination
This scenario, as explained by Whiteout Press today, creates an unimaginable realignment of the entire American political landscape. As anyone who’s been following the election coverage can attest, the establishment Wall Street wing of the GOP hates Ron Paul. A populist defender of average Americans and an advocate for the elimination of the Federal Reserve, a Ron Paul Presidency would jeopardize the cozy and profitable business relationship the Wall Street banks and multinational corporations have with our Federal government.
If Ron Paul wins the GOP nomination for President, expect a grand and orchestrated exodus from the Republican Party broadcast on all networks during primetime, every day for a month. The media and Fortune 500 will attempt to punish the Republican voter base for daring to nominate a candidate that isn’t approved of by the elite establishment. Where would the rich and powerful Republicans go? With a field full of populists and libertarians, their only choice would be to side with the man that has protected their interests for the previous four years – President Obama.
With the Democrat’s Obama enjoying the Republicans’ big money and corporate backing, the Republican nominee, Ron Paul, would also see an influx of new support. A Ron Paul nomination would bring in more new and young voters than the Obama campaign four years before. It would also bring in every independent and third party voter under the Republican Party banner, at least for this one, incredibly important, final battle. Think of it as an alliance between the populist Occupy Wall Street movement and the populist Tea Party movement. And it doesn’t end there.
There is no way that the Libertarian Gary Johnson would campaign against a Republican Ron Paul for the White House. More likely, knowing that a Republican-Libertarian coalition would be necessary to overcome the alliance of Republican and Democratic millionaires, some kind of arrangement might be negotiated where the two men campaign together as a President and Vice Presidential ticket. As crazy as that scenario sounds, the idea of a first-term, Chicago Machine-linked, black man becoming the next President was just as crazy at this exact stage of the Presidential election four years ago.
The fact is, 42 percent of American voters identify themselves as independents. And as the Independent Voters Association repeatedly points out for us, out of 435 Congressmen in the US House of Representatives, there are ZERO independents. Between the unfair ballot access laws, the media’s blatant bias against independents and third parties, a Congressional approval rating of 12 percent, and the treatment candidates like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson have been subjected to this election cycle - the political damn may be about to burst. And when it does, the tidal wave will flood directly into the Ron Paul and Gary Johnson campaigns.
