The Libertarian Candidates 2016

libertarians often make gret amounts of sense, they seem reasonable and then, just when you think that you can agree with em, they LEAVE THE PLANET AND RETURN TO THE MOTHERSHIP>

Chugging along....but their recent debate was only streamed on Glenn Beck's network. Ugh.

'But the Libertarians say this year is as good a chance as they’ve had to make their way into the national spotlight. Asked about specific strategies to attract Republicans this cycle, Johnson said defiantly: “If you believe we should deport 11 million illegal immigrants and build a fence across the border and believe we should kill the families of Muslim terrorists and bring back waterboarding or worse, if you believe free trade is about applying tariffs to incoming goods and services—then I’m not your guy.”

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'Two Republicans on the Libertarian ticket might seem like a pure bid to peel off Republican #nevertrumps. Johnson made a video last month explicitly attacking Trump. In it he used the words “conservative values” to describe himself. Yet he also likes to appeal to Sanders fans, often mentioning how on the “iSideWith” site, this Libertarian found himself in 73 percent agreement with the democratic socialist, of course all on social and foreign policy matters, not economic ones.'

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/never-trump-2016-elections-libertarians-213917

Trump is a bit worried about Johnson/Weld it seems.

'Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson as a “fringe candidate.”

“I think he’s a fringe candidate, you want to know the truth,” Mr. Trump told reporters in New York, pointing out that Mr. Johnson got about 1 percent of the vote as the Libertarian candidate in 2012.

“I look at him and I watch him and I watch his motions and I watch what he says,” Mr. Trump said. “I think that he is a fringe candidate.”

Mr. Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, secured the Libertarian Party’s 2016 presidential nomination at a convention in Orlando over the weekend.

Toward the end of an appearance on CNN earlier Tuesday, Mr. Johnson blew a kiss to Mr. Trump, after he had attacked the billionaire businessman’s immigration policies as “racist” over the weekend.

Some have also been toying with a separate effort to recruit an independent candidate to run as an alternative to Mr. Trump in his likely matchup against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

“You can’t win as an independent,” Mr. Trump said Tuesday.

“If they do an indie, assuming it’s decent — which I don’t think anybody with a reputation would do it, because [they’d] look like fools,” he said. “But what you’re going to do is you lose the election for the Republicans, and therefore you lose the Supreme Court.

“Therefore, you will have a group of people put on the Supreme Court where this country will never, ever recover,” he said. “It will never, ever be the same.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/31/donald-trump-gary-johnson-fringe-candidate/

Gary responded on his FB page.

'So...Donald Trump calls Johnson/Weld a "fringe" ticket. I seem to remember another fringe candidate from not so long ago. His name was Trump, I believe. Seems to have worked out pretty well for him so far.'