So you don't trust him because you don't know him? I can understand hesitance to put faith a person you don't know, but you don't know Ron Paul either. Perhaps it's just some Sedona vibe you're getting?
I don't trust him because I don't know him - and when I say that, I mean that I am unaware of the relationship that he shares with Ron. So I have no idea if they plan on collaborating together in this election. I don't know Ron personally either, but he's already shown himself to be trustworthy because of his principles and honesty. You already know that, I don't know why you even need me to explain this to you. Gary might have a decent record but nowhere near Ron's. To the skeptical Ron Paul supporter who has never heard of him before, his statements show that he's untrustworthy.
Has he hinted to you that the campaign IS about himself? Or is that the assumption you give candidates?
It isn't? Well then, it must be about supporting Ron then, seeing as he's made that
very clear
I have no suggestions to give to his campaign, that's up to them to figure something out.
You're against him because CATO and Reason prefer him?
No, but they will most certainly attempt to use their following to try and unite support behind Gary. They will drive a wedge between RP supporters and GJ supporters and if they want to back Gary, I wouldn't doubt that Gary would be receiving financial support from the Koch brothers to help fund his campaign.
Politics is compromise. Many people aren't happy with Ron Paul over Gary Johnson. Many prefer it the other way around. Many would prefer a different candidate entirely. We are an effective movement because we compromise between ourselves to make change happen.
I am willing to accept compromise for senate and congressional candidates, but not the presidency. Fool me once....etc. I'm a former Obama supporter. I will only vote for someone I find to be trustworthy now, or just not vote at all and many paul supporters I've run in to feel the same way.
I'm sorry that you would allow one issue differences to undermine your ability to support a candidate. A great many in this movement held their nose on an issue or two to support Ron Paul. Such in the case with any coalition getting a candidate elected.
Foreign policy is one of the main issues that attracted me to Paul and comes nowhere close to issues like abortion or illegal immigration in terms of my priorities.
What statements about Ron?
Called him too "pessimistic", basically suggesting that republicans should be ones voting for him and not Ron
Said his "no" was more powerful than Ron's "no" and that HE actually got things done. While you may agree with his statement, I still consider it bad form.
Has said that he would not consider being RP's VP. <- Suggesting that this campaign is only about himself.
Gary isn't hollow or vague, he's talking in soundbites.
Well then, that's his problem isn't it? I'm not talking about the debates, I'm talking about LONG interviews where he has plenty of time to articulate his positions with more detail. He's boring, tone deaf and seems to have an extremely limited understanding of liberty. One of Johnson's many "soundbites" is claiming that good government is about "putting people first". What politician hasn't said that? Good government isn't about putting people first, it is about getting the hell out of the way. He also said that he takes a common sense business approach toward government and that he wanted to make government more efficient. You would never catch Ron Paul saying such a thing. And it clearly suggests that Johnson has either never read, or perhaps never understood, Friedrich Hayek's Road to Serfdom, which warned that the rise of tyrants is often based on the fact that those tyrants call for more efficient government. He's shown himself to have
very limited knowledge on the FED, Austrian economics, foreign policy and so on. You make the excuse that he does not need to harp on these issues to understand them, but guess what? If he does not provide any effort to show his knowledge on these issues in interviews, then you're blindly providing damage control for him. There is more than enough time to show that he understands these issues in a single 10 minute interview, as Ron has proven this over and over again.
We should always have had such problems. 
