Could this Libertarian Party ticket defeat both Clinton & Trump in the 2016 Presidential race?

Gary Johnson (left), and William Weld

{Let me make three (3) points about Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s campaign:

1) If he’s still polling at 10% — which he currently is against Clinton & Trump — he DEFINITELY deserves to have a podium at the nationally-televised debates, as well as his running mate Bill Weld at the vice presidential debates. Ross Perot didn’t have anything close to a 10% poll rating in ’92 and neither did most of the Republican candidates debating Trump in the Primaries last year and earlier this year.

2) Both Johnson (New Mexico) and Weld (Massachusetts) were both elected and re-elected Republican Governors in predominately Blue States. They’ve got to have something going for them. Unlike Perot and his running mate retired Admiral James Stockdale in ’92 (which was a complete and utter joke), I think both Johnson and Weld will come off very respectable and viable after the televised debates.

3) Until a viable 3rd Party Independent Presidential candidate emerges — and gets their name officially on the ballot in ALL 50 States — Gary Johnson and Bill Weld are the best options American voters got to have a President in the White House next year NOT named either Clinton or Trump. As far as Write-in candidates like Ted Cruz or Mitt Romney go — when was the last time a Write-in candidate ever won a major election, especially in a nationwide race? Keep in mind too, City Clerks and Town Clerks have the option to discard Write-in votes that are not legible or spelled incorrectly — do you really want to rely on that for picking our next President?

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Bill Weld, Running as a Libertarian, Likens Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan to Kristallnacht

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and THOMAS KAPLAN  —  MAY 19, 2016

William F. Weld, the twice-elected former Republican governor of Massachusetts, who was last seen campaigning in the 2006 Republican primary for governor of New York, now hopes to be on a national ticket as the vice-presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party.

And he is already on the attack.

In his first interview since accepting an invitation to be the running mate of former Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico, Mr. Weld assailed Donald J. Trump over his call to round up and deport the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.

“I can hear the glass crunching on Kristallnacht in the ghettos of Warsaw and Vienna when I hear that, honest,” Mr. Weld said Thursday.

Mr. Weld, 70, was not uniformly critical of the presumptive Republican nominee. “I don’t consider myself part of the Never Trump movement,” he said, expressing admiration for Mr. Trump’s success in the primary contest.

“I’m not horrified about everything Mr. Trump has done at all,” he said, adding: “I think he’s done a lot. But when I think about some of the positions, I think they’re way out there.”

Where he differs with Mr. Trump most sharply is on Mr. Trump’s call for mass deportations.

Asked if he believed Mr. Trump was a fascist, Mr. Weld demurred. “My Kristallnacht analogy does evoke the Nazi period in Germany,” he said. “And that’s what I’m worried about: a slippery slope.”

After a circuitous answer, he eventually came to a conclusion. “No, I wouldn’t call Mr. Trump either a fascist or a Nazi,” Mr. Weld said. “I’m just saying, we got to watch it when we get exclusionary about people on account of their status as a member of a group.”

Mr. Weld also objected to Mr. Trump’s repeated threats to impose tariffs on goods imported from Mexico and China. “That’s a pretty good prescription to having China be the only superpower in about 10 years,” he said, leaning forward to make sure a reporter understood him. “China — not the U.S.”

Mr. Weld’s best known previous turn on the national stage was in 1997, when he resigned as governor to focus on his appointment by President Bill Clinton as ambassador to Mexico.

That did not go well: He was blocked by Senator Jesse Helms and withdrew his nomination after a heated battle in which Mr. Weld, a pillar of what was left of the moderate northeastern Republican establishment, loudly assailed Mr. Helms and the archconservatives who stood behind him.

A former prosecutor, Mr. Weld could appeal to some disaffected Republicans on a ticket alongside Mr. Johnson at a time when other efforts by Republicans to recruit a third-party candidate — in part in the hopes of keeping anti-Trump Republican voters from staying home and costing the party’s lower-tier candidates — are close to fizzling.

Mr. Weld said Mr. Johnson, the Libertarian presidential candidate in 2012 who is seeking the party’s nomination again, spoke to him last weekend about running. Their hope is to amass enough support in national polls to be included in the presidential debates. If that happened, Mr. Weld said hopefully, it would not be impossible to envision a minor-party ticket winning the White House.

But he also did not protest too much when asked how he would reassure those who, mindful of his willingness to roll the dice in politics, might question his level of commitment to a national run.

“There’s some truth in that,” said Mr. Weld, who now works at a law firm, Mintz Levin, and its lobbying arm. “I do like to climb mountains in politics, and I do enjoy running for office.”

The Libertarian Party says it already will be on the ballot in 32 states and is working on the rest. It will pick its presidential and vice-presidential nominees at a convention over Memorial Day weekend in Orlando, Fla.

Mr. Weld suggested that the Libertarian message, which emphasizes civil liberties and small government, could appeal to younger voters.

Discussing foreign policy, he spoke critically of the Iraq invasion of 2003 and of putting “boots on the ground” in the Middle East to project American strength. But he was supportive of the Obama administration on the Iran nuclear deal that Republicans frequently criticize.

“I thought the game was worth the candle there, and that’s politically incorrect in almost all circles — certainly in Republican circles — but I think I do feel that way, and I followed that closely,” Mr. Weld said, adding, “I know John Kerry quite well and I saw his going back and forth, and rather admired it.” (Mr. Weld unsuccessfully challenged Mr. Kerry in the 1996 Senate race.)

Asked about Hillary Clinton, Mr. Weld noted that he had known her since they were both in their 20s. “I’ve always just thought of her as a really great kid,” he said.

Mr. Weld said he possessed a deep libertarian streak, and pined for a time when that was more widespread in the Republican Party. He complained about the polarization in Congress and remembered his early days working on Capitol Hill, before law school, for Senator Jacob K. Javits, Republican of New York.

“It was a totally different era and a wonderful era,” he said. “It was wonderful to be in Washington in those days. And things absolutely got done.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/us/politics/libertarian-party-trump.html?_r=0

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Can you say, “Double Standard”?

Wasn’t Donald Trump severely criticized by the mainstream media and Democrats a few weeks ago when he failed to correct an audience member at one of his Town Hall forums and that individual said, while asking a question, that President Barack Obama was a Muslim?

So now about a month later, at another public Town Hall forum also held in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton simply starts laughing when a man in the audience suggested he wanted “strangle” Carly Fiorina.

Should we expect less of a “response” from Hillary Clinton than we do Donald Trump, just because Clinton is a woman? Is that supposed to be “more responsible behavior” of someone we might elect as our next U.S. President? I don’t think so.

Personally, that’s sort of like asking the question, Which smells worse: Cow manure or Horse manure?

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(From the Gov. Mike Huckabee Twitter site on 10-13-15. Huckabee is also a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2016.)

Poor liberals think it’s racist to deplore a brutal dictatorship.

I trust Bernie Sanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador!

Marijuana question appropriate. Democrats smoking it if they think their policies will save this country.

Congress should get healthcare from the V.A.
No Veteran will rot and die again if they’re waiting alongside a U.S. Senator!

I pledge to oppose amnesty & government benefits for illegal immigrants who violated our laws.

The Democrat plan: Give amnesty AND ObamaCare to illegal immigrants.

Bernie Sander’s free college Ponzi scheme would make Bernie Madoff blush.

Hillary Clinton’s Keystone Pipeline defense is as believable as Tonya Harding in a deposition. #TripleAxel

Hillary Clinton is a charter member of the Washington-Wall Street elite. #PartOfTheProblem

I trust Bernie Sanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador!

Racism exists because we have a sin problem in America, not a skin problem.

ALL lives matter. It’s time we stop burning cars, shooting cops, & recognize that life is a gift from God.

Black lives matter because ALL lives matter. Haven’t we learned from history?

Hillary Clinton – It’s not about your emails, it’s about you hiding the truth @ the expense of our national security.

Hillary Clinton – You may not want to talk about your emails, but you’re not above the law.

Hillary Clinton – Hard Choices: Transparency Should Not Have Been One of Them

Hillary Clinton truly believes the law does not apply to her.

They believe climate change is a greater threat than Islamic extremism, that a sunburn is worse than a beheading. It’s nonsense!

If only Hillary Clinton was as passionate about protecting American diplomats as she is about blasting the GOP. #Benghazi

Wake up, Hillary Clinton. You know who else was “burning up the phone lines begging for help”… #Benghazi

“This is not time for a Chamberlain.

This is time for a Churchill.

We either stand against

Evil or we don’t.”

Where did Hillary Clinton get these State Dept accomplishment talkers? Baghdad Bob?

Hillary Clinton doesn’t exercise judgement, she follows polls.

Oh please. Putin’s rolling the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton foreign policy like Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square.

“The Second Amendment is the Last Line of Defense against Tyranny and MUST BE PROTECTED.”

I pledge to defend our 2nd Amendment rights & oppose gun control legislation

Hillary Clinton is proud to be to the left of Bernie Sanders on the 2nd Amendment. Unbelievable.

Why is it a negative in a Democrat primary to try to establish law & order in a violent city?

Bernie Sander’s socialist math is as solid and sound as El Chapo’s prison security.

Hard Choices: Protecting American Workers Should Not Have Been One of Them

They believe climate change is a greater threat than Islamic extremism, that a sunburn is worse than a beheading. It’s nonsense!

Donald Trump – Any last-minute hairstyle advice for Bernie Sanders before he takes the stage

At Dem Debate, Hillary will demonstrate her high level of intelligence by managing to remember, on every issue, the side she’s currently on.

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