There may never come another time when voting on one's principles could be so profoundly seminal, so vastly important. I believe Gary Johnson would be the best President, and he has no baggage, not to mention the press leaves him alone as though he is a leper. The press MUST have Obama OR Romney, and their strong preference is Obama to help wipe the egg off their faces.
One thing that has gotten us to this dismal point is people's lack of principles when voting - then whining that politicians have no principles. It just COULD be that the voting public has no principles.
If we could get Gary Johnson well enough known, his election would be the "fundamental change" that Obama promised, in reverse. He would minimize government, not shuffle things around and call it repaired. He would cut spending, not by 1/10 but by a LOT MORE THAN THAT. Any voter who cries about Medicare taking a hit, then yells about big government is a hypocrite, pure and simple. Social programs of all sorts must learn to make it on less - I don't believe Romney will do that - and I KNOW Obama won't do that. A Johnson victory would be the upset of our history, one that would make every politician have second thoughts about his own place in society.
A win is not a win if the results create no real changes. I hope everyone remembers that on election day.
Stossel: I Like Gary Johnson
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John Stossel at TownHall 19 Sep 2012
All political candidates call themselves freedom-lovers, but they are
not. Neither major party really opposes government control of the
economy or of our personal lives. I'm a libertarian because I see the
false choice offered by political left and right: Democrats talk about
personal liberty; Republicans talk about economic freedom. But what they
do once in power belies their words.
otherwise have. So let's take military spending back to 2003 spending
levels. Start out with the premise that we should provide ourselves with
a strong national defense. But 'defense' here is the operative word.
Not 'offense' and not 'nation-building.'
Of course there's more »
All political candidates call themselves freedom-lovers, but they are
not. Neither major party really opposes government control of the
economy or of our personal lives. I'm a libertarian because I see the
false choice offered by political left and right: Democrats talk about
personal liberty; Republicans talk about economic freedom. But what they
do once in power belies their words.
I say we're best off if government just leaves us alone to our peaceful cooperation with whomever we please. Let politicians advocate moral behavior. Let them give to charities. But leave government -- which is physical force -- out of it.
That's
why I like Gary Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico.
He's the Libertarian Party candidate for president. As governor, Johnson
vetoed 750 bills, and yet he got re-elected in that blue state.
I asked Johnson what it means to be a libertarian.
"Fiscally
responsible, socially accepting ... more liberal than Obama on several
issues, more conservative than Romney on several issues."
Johnson proposes to cut federal spending by more than 43 percent:
"Balance the federal budget now. I think that unless we do that, we're going to find ourselves in a monetary collapse."
To
do that, he'd go where the money is. He'd cut the big programs that
will soon bankrupt us. That includes Medicare. Conventional wisdom says
what he's proposing is cruel and, for a politician, suicidal.
"Look,
we've got to slash Medicare spending. If we don't, we're going to find
ourselves with no health care whatsoever. Medicaid, same thing. Military
spending, same thing."
The left claims that without social spending, people would starve in the streets!
"This
is the exact reaction that I got as governor of New Mexico, having
vetoed all that legislation. ... Kids were going to starve, all the
worst things were going to happen, and none of them did. And I got
re-elected."
Who would decide what part of Medicare to cut?
"Give
this up to the states. Fifty laboratories of innovation and best
practice ... (instead of) Washington top-down, Washington-knows-best --
that's what has us in the situation that we're in right now."
Johnson also says, "End the wars." Won't a pullout of our troops mean the terrorists win?
"We have hundreds of millions of enemies ... that, but for our military interventions, we would nototherwise have. So let's take military spending back to 2003 spending
levels. Start out with the premise that we should provide ourselves with
a strong national defense. But 'defense' here is the operative word.
Not 'offense' and not 'nation-building.'
Of course there's more »
Read More: http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2012/09...
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Tasine 2012/09/22 03:42:28
I did notice some other entity sponsoring debates which has invited candidates with 1%+ and on-the-ballot. The Sponsor is unknown to me, but I'll try to hunt down the link - failed to bookmark it, darnit. If found I'll post the article.
A mystery to me is why Ron Paul didn't leap on Gary's bandwagon right after RNC.
Yes, I would like to see Paul endorse Johnson but I think he will probably say that the Constitution and Libertarian candiates are both good.
One thing that has gotten us to this dismal point is people's lack of principles when voting - then whining that politicians have no principles. It just COULD be that the voting public has no principles.
If we could get Gary Johnson well enough known, his election would be the "fundamental change" that Obama promised, in reverse. He would minimize government, not shuffle things around and call it repaired. He would cut spending, not by 1/10 but by a LOT MORE THAN THAT. Any voter who cries about Medicare taking a hit, then yells about big government is a hypocrite, pure and simple. Social programs of all sorts must learn to make it on less - I don't believe Romney will do that - and I KNOW Obama won't do that. A Johnson victory would be the upset of our history, one that would make every politician have second thoughts about his own place in society.
A win is not a win if the results create no real changes. I hope everyone remembers that on election day.
For those who've not boned up, two links below should clear their confusion:
http://www.garyjohnson2012.co... (some good video also)
http://www.lp.org/platform (short and sweet)
Thank you!