05-31-2016, 12:47 PM
(05-31-2016, 12:38 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: If you have Gary Johnson on stage, who is very much "Libertarian Lite", you could have enough people warm up to him where he could get 20% or so. He's not too extreme on some things (like no taxes or social programs) as the Libertarian platform is. He even got heckled at their convention when he called for lower taxes instead of no taxes. He's for LGBT rights, abortion, and anti-discrimination protection. He gets crap from Libertarians for that one. He says Christians bakers need to bake gay wedding cakes and Jewish bakers need to bake cakes for neo-Nazi groups. Not very Libertarian, but he wants equality for all groups.
On the issues, he's a nearly perfect independent. He doesn't call for these radical changes. He wants people to have access to their rights while cutting government waste.
He just needs to get on stage. You're 100% correct on that. If polls keep including him and he's getting 10%, there's no reason not to let him on.
I see Johnson as more of a classic liberal, which is where my tendencies are. There are some differences, but that's a closer description of his positions than libertarian.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
