You're all voting for Johnson so the LP gets matching funds, right?

[phill4paul]

But there are other nonprofits, like the Clinton Foundation, that do nothing but enrich the Clintons, that are tax deductible. Those deductions are also taxpayer dollars. So basically, it's a big, fat money laundering operation at government expense.

What is this "government expense" you speak of?

 

[euphemia]

How much would you consider it has cost us to maintain the Clintons in the style to which they aspire? How many millions of dollars of tax deductions have flowed through their nonprofits? It's a lot more than any hundred churches I know of that are actually serving people.

People should get a choice of how they spend or give their money. I don't choose to give a dime to the Libertarian Party when they put forth candidates that wouldn't know a Constitutional right or legitimate use of government if it came up and bit them on the nose. The point of the OP is that people should vote for Gary Johnson so he will reach 5% and the Libs will get matching funds. No way, no how, not at gunpoint. If the Libertarians want to participate in this process, let them raise their own (tax deductible) election money and follow the principles they claim to have.

 

[Athan]

You have your names and/or years off. Johnson wasn't a candidate for anything in 2008 and I don't think RP recommended voting for him in 2012.

Your right. It was Barr, who I did vote for. Johnson was on 2012, and infact I did recall meeting him in Fort Worth during the Republican convention when he had a meeting in a bar. He spoke to us delegates surrounding him by a pool table. Either way that dude went off the deep end this year. This year the libertarian party convention went bonkers. I have no clue what the fuck happened.

 

[TheTexan]

This year the libertarian party convention went bonkers. I have no clue what the fuck happened.

Thats what happens when you put a bunch of potheads all in the same room together.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

The LP has two factions:

The Gary Johnson, middle of the road, 95% libertarian, try to look normal, try to win votes, try to grow the party faction.

And this..

 

[TheTexan]

This ain't a movie.

Turning down the funds could be a good way to highlight the public dollars funneled into the elections and two major parties.

It's a good thing that's not a movie, cus I would totally sleep through that movie if it were. Yawn...

 

[specsaregood]

The LP has two factions:

The Gary Johnson, middle of the road, 95% libertarian, try to look normal, try to win votes, try to grow the party faction.

Which faction is the VP candidate part of? I'd rather vote for the mostly naked guy over that fuckface.

 

[Danke]

The LP has two factions:

The Gary Johnson, middle of the road, 95% libertarian, try to look normal, try to win votes, try to grow the party faction.

And this..

This would have been a better choice.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I remember the 90s quite fondly. It was a brief time of reprieve, between our time of constant fear of the existential threat of nuclear annihilation, and our time of constant fear of Islamic terrorism.
There were plenty of jobs, gas was cheap, regulations were more lenient than today, cops stuck to beating up undesirables.
Plenty of pot to go around.
Overall attitude was postive.

When I apply the same purity test to Clintons as some do for Johnson, I find it difficult to hate on Hillary.

Gas is still cheap-you're just paying for it with debased currency.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

The LP has two factions:

The Gary Johnson, middle of the road, 95% libertarian, try to look normal, try to win votes, try to grow the party faction.

And this..

Really? Really?

The only way someone is allowed to be a libertarian, in r3volution universe, is either Gary Johnson or fat naked guy?

There is NO OTHER WAY to be a libertarian, besides Gary Johnson and fat naked guy?

This is seriously what you are arguing now?

 

[Carlybee]

The L party is nutso. We need an "l" party. But if it's a true "l", there can be no party.

 

[euphemia]

I think most true libertarians are not members of the Libertarian Party. Just my opinion, but there you go. The Libertarian Party has a lot of agenda driven libertines in it, including Johnson. The cause of Liberty will not be served by a windfall of my hard earned tax dollars.

 

[Occam's Banana]

The LP has two factions:

The Gary Johnson, middle of the road, 95% libertarian, try to look normal, try to win votes, try to grow the party faction.

And this..

Well, at least that guy's 50% libertarian.

And if he was smoking pot, he'd be 100% ...

 

[euphemia]

A true libertarian believes in the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property, the Bill of Rights, the limited enumerated powers of government, and does not put his own personal spin or use the cause of liberty to advance his own personal agenda. Gary Johnson does not pass any kind of sniff test there. He does not believe in the most fundamental rights for Americans, and is nothing like a libertarian.

 

[Carlybee]

A true libertarian believes in the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property, the Bill of Rights, the limited enumerated powers of government, and does not put his own person spin or use the cause of liberty to advance his own personal agenda. Gary Johnson does not pass any kind of sniff test there. He does not believe in the most fundamental rights for Americans, and is nothing like a libertarian.

And the LP is complicit for continuing to nominate him and hold him up as the defacto rep.

 

[FSP-Rebel]

Johnson/Weld's hi-5ing of Clinton has done nothing but drive the LP's poll numbers down. Active sabotage, inside job. Way to go!

 

[Carlybee]

I propose the Wrangled Jello party

 

[AdamL]

The LP has two factions:

The Gary Johnson, middle of the road, 95% libertarian, try to look normal, try to win votes, try to grow the party faction.

I, for one, appluad the Gary Johnson faction's efforts to grow the party by trying to win over the all-important lizard person demographic.

Gary Johnson 2016: Be Lizardtarian With Me!

 

[Jesse James]

Who converted the most libertarians?

Most importantly, who converted the most anarcho capitalists?

Ron Paul or Gary Johnson?

case closed on which way works. Ron Paul wins for both awards

 

[r3volution 3.0]

I, for one, appluad the Gary Johnson faction's efforts to grow the party by trying to win over the all-important lizard person demographic.

Gary Johnson 2016: Be Lizardtarian With Me!

I did say try...

...but yea, I appreciate Gary is not an ideal candidate, in any respect, but he'll do for the moment, for the task at hand.