An Open Letter to Gary Johnson By Dallas Brooks Governor Johnson, the media hates you. Deal with it. The minute it looked like you might be pulling millennial Bernie supporters, Donald Trump likely wanted you to be included in the debates. If tomorrow a report comes out suggesting you’re pulling in Cruz votes, Hillary will want you…
by Josh Guckert The day after being unable to answer which current foreign leader he looks up to, Gary Johnson is hitting back against his critics. He tweeted Thursday: It’s been almost 24 hours…and I still can’t come up with a foreign leader I look up to. — Gov. Gary Johnson (@GovGaryJohnson) September 29, 2016…
“Aleppo Moment” attacks catastrophizing Gary Johnson’s intellect already underway by Darrell England Remember when Gary Johnson finally got mass media attention, but not over meaningful consideration of his candidacy, regarding his recollection of the word “Aleppo?” Johnson was asked to name a world leader that he looked up to and respected. Gary seemed to have thought of…
by Josh Guckert A few moments before Monday’s debate, Gary Johnson sat down at Twitter’s headquarters to answer questions. Johnson got visibly upset in numerous points of the interview, but none more when he was asked if and his running mate William Weld are “spoiler candidates.” At first, the Libertarian was asked about foreign policy. He…
by Josh Guckert On Thursday afternoon, “Gary Johnson” began trending on Twitter. This appears to have stemmed from an article from Mother Jones. The piece by Jeremy Schulman entitled “Gary Johnson Wants to Ignore Climate Change Because the Sun Will Destroy the Earth One Day” and subtitled with “Attention, millennials…” seems only the latest attempt by…
by Josh Guckert On Wednesday, Gary Johnson interviewed with USA Today Opinion Editor Bill Sternberg. Partway through, the interviewer began to pepper the Libertarian nominee over the “wasted vote” fallacy. The way in which Johnson responded may be his most devastating takedown of the campaign thus far—and followed by a broad, confident grin. USA Today: So some…
by Josh Guckert Several absentee ballots in two Pennsylvania counties have left off Libertarian Gary Johnson‘s name. His is the only of the five eligible candidates’ names to be omitted: As posted by the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania (LPPA): Indiana and Susquehanna appear to be the only counties afflicted by this issue. The LPPA is working…
by Josh Guckert On Sunday afternoon, libertarians were aghast at the news reported by Carl Bernstein (the author of A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton) of CNN that Libertarian vice presidential nominee William Weld would withdraw his candidacy and endorse Hillary Clinton. There’s just one problem: these rumors ended up being completely false….
by Josh Guckert On Friday, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced that only Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would be the only candidates invited to the first debate on September 26 at Hofstra University. This came after deciding to use the average of five different polls to determine eligibility. Only those candidates averaging above 15% were granted…
by Eli Bowman Being Libertarian‘s Charles Peralo did an interview with Glenn Beck in which they touched on several issues regarding this election like the debate situation, Gary Johnson, and Libertarianism in general. They also talked about Beck’s new book “Liars.” There were two noteworthy items that came out of the interview. The first was that Beck…