Libertarians throw election

[Andiron]

This has been a high water mark year for political stupidity.

http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/08/12/bill-weld-just-compared-ar-15s-weapons-mass-destruction-said-pistols-even-worse/

Between Johnson stepping on his, and now this, I don't honestly know what else they could do to deliberately chase away voters.

[HeroHog]

I've been smacking around my liberal musician friend who THINKS he knows stuff about guns and thinks ya can file a sear in an AR and make it an F/A... I explained the KNOWLEDGEABLE gun people knew that would make it full-auto(ish) for a few rounds, then it would jam and become a club! 

[bedlamite]

The LP has pretty much abandoned their core principles and has been moving toward anarcho-socialist for a while now.

[grampster]

I accidentally had my headphones on Beck while I was mowing the lawn the other day.  Beck had Johnson on.  Johnson could not put two sentences together cogently.  He sounded like if you asked him to wash the dishes he'd have to ask you how to turn on the water.

[Andiron]

I accidentally had my headphones on Beck while I was mowing the lawn the other day.  Beck had Johnson on.  Johnson could not put two sentences together cogently.  He sounded like if you asked him to wash the dishes he'd have to ask you how to turn on the water.

Heard that interview,  it was awful.

This last couple month's of fuckery from Johnson and Weld have killed off any notion I had of a protest vote. 

[MechAg94]

I accidentally had my headphones on Beck while I was mowing the lawn the other day.  Beck had Johnson on.  Johnson could not put two sentences together cogently.  He sounded like if you asked him to wash the dishes he'd have to ask you how to turn on the water.

Well, it could be one of those odd post modern faucets.   

[MechAg94]

Heard that interview,  it was awful.

This last couple month's of fuckery from Johnson and Weld have killed off any notion I had of a protest vote. 

So Trump is actually the best candidate left even including the 3rd parties people?  That might be a first. 

[Andiron]

So Trump is actually the best candidate left even including the 3rd parties people?  That might be a first. 

Best sticks in the craw,  but I'll give him viable and not Hillary.

[RoadKingLarry]

Best sticks in the craw,  but I'll give him viable and not Hillary.

Let's just call it "least worst" and let it go.

[HeroHog]

Let's just call it "least worst" and let it go.

SO much this...

[Pb]

WTH is wrong with this election?  Even the libertarians are statists!   

[T.O.M.]

Well crap.  They were going to get my vote.  The level of stupid, the number or errors in that statement, boggles the mind.  Not to mention that it flies in the face of base libertarian ideas.

I may just skip this election...

[Balog]

LP realizes their natural constituency is defecting Bernie voters.

[brimic]

The LP has pretty much abandoned their core principles and has been moving toward anarcho-socialist for a while now.

That sounds like an oxymoron, but it does sum it up very well.

I've seen democrat threads on facebook where they had very interesting but laughably very wrong ideas about what the LP is:
"They are republicans that want to smoke pot and have abortions."
"They are to the right of *derogatory term deleted*."

[brimic]

LP realizes their natural constituency is defecting Bernie voters.

...and people like me are seeing that and are withdrawing any potential support.

[cordex]

Heavily leaning toward writing in "None of the above"

[brimic]

Heavily leaning toward writing in "None of the above"

Yep.
I plan to vote down ticket, and maybe fill in the oval for Trump just because it feels like giving the finger to all of the liberals who have molded our country into a model of their own insanity over the last 7.5 years.

[lupinus]

They lost all chance when they went full on stoner wookie and put up more liberal than libertarian mr bake the cake Johnson.


Sent from my iPhone. Freaking autocorrect.

[MechAg94]

Let's just call it "least worst" and let it go.

As long as we understand that this election isn't anything new.  Any good old days anyone wants to mention are just selective memory. 

[230RN]

Any living protoplasm that has a real chance of being elected besides Hillary.

That's my supersophisticated voting strategy.

[Andiron]

As long as we understand that this election isn't anything new.  Any good old days anyone wants to mention are just selective memory. 

The situation isn't anything new,  but I would submit that the choices are an order of magnitude worse than usual.

[roo_ster]

Not surprised. 

Libertarian Party and many libertarians have traded their inheritance of negative rights for positive rights and various other forms of pottage the last 15 or so years.  The only thing the LP and most libertarians had going for them was a consistent belief in negative rights and an aversion to positive rights.  What they've got now is a a couple of warmed-over has-been GOP governors past their sell-by date and a collection of libertine issues. 

[lee n. field]

It may just be advancing age, but the choices seem to get worse and worse, with each POTUS election cycle.

liberal than libertarian mr bake the cake Johnson.

Almost everything I've seen from this batch of L.'s makes me not want to vote for them.  

[HForrest]

As long as we understand that this election isn't anything new.  Any good old days anyone wants to mention are just selective memory.

No, it's significantly worse than usual.

McCain was probably the worst RINO candidate from recent years; probably about just as bad as Trump on policy, except he didn't completely trash the image of the party and arguably intentionally throw the election.

Trump has single-handedly brought about the demise of the Republican party as a force in presidential politics. We had 2016. We could have nominated Jeb Bush and he would have won.

Trump took that chance away from us and by extension all foreseeable chances in the future. This was our last good shot to keep the clock ticking for a bit longer on a not-100%-*expletive deleted*ed SCOTUS. We will never have a Republican president again. The justices that come into place over the next several decades of Democrat presidents are going to wipe out the Constitutional protections we had left.

I think it's uniquely bad this time.

[roo_ster]

Trump has single-handedly brought about the demise of the Republican party as a force in presidential politics. We had 2016. We could have nominated Jeb Bush and he would have won.