Libertarians throw election

[MillCreek]

LP realizes their natural constituency is defecting Bernie voters.

Or based on what I am reading on the Seattle-area FB pages, the Bernie defectors are moving to the Green Party and Dr. Jill Stein: free college! cancel student debt! $15 minimum wage! no vaccines! Legalized pot! Free healthcare!

There may be some other nuances, but I think that is the gist of the Green Party.

[roo_ster]

Or based on what I am reading on the Seattle-area FB pages, the Bernie defectors are moving to the Green Party and Dr. Jill Stein: free college! cancel student debt! $15 minimum wage! no vaccines! Legalized pot! Free healthcare!

There may be some other nuances, but I think that is the gist of the Green Party.

So, the Patchouli Platoon of the Free *expletive deleted*it Army.

[Andiron]

So, the Patchouli Platoon of the Free *expletive deleted*it Army.

Useful idiots that would otherwise vote dem 

[Scout26]

I'm writing in James Mattis on my ballot.

[Balog]

I'm writing in James Mattis on my ballot.

I'm writing in Mike Rowe, although I am of course in favor of Mattis crossing the Potomic with a few divisions. But voting him in isn't nearly as fun.

[lee n. field]

I'm writing in James Mattis on my ballot.

Contemplating Ron Paul as write in.

[MechAg94]

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.

I am not sure if you are serious or just trying to be funny.  I guess I will assume the latter as identifying Jeb Bush as the great hero who could hold back the liberal destruction is just hilarious.   

[HForrest]

I would have been bummed if it were Jeb Bush.

He would have been able to win the general against Hillary though.

[Andiron]

I am not sure if you are serious or just trying to be funny.  I guess I will assume the latter as identifying Jeb Bush as the great hero who could hold back the liberal destruction is just hilarious.   

Please clap 

[grampster]

If you discount the majority of bull puckey being fed you by the media and the GOPe and the D's it would begin to occur to one that Trump is actually the 3rd party candidate...The Honey Badger Party....He don't give a f***!

[Fly320s]

I sacrifice a chicken each week in the hope that Hillary will be indicted and Trump will be the victim of a hostile takeover and get fired.

[MechAg94]

I would have been bummed if it were Jeb Bush.

He would have been able to win the general against Hillary though.

No, he would wilt against the media attacks and fail to show anyone why we should elect him over a liberal.  See McCain and Romney and Dole.

[lupinus]

I sacrifice a chicken each week in the hope that Hillary will be indicted and Trump will be the victim of a hostile takeover and get fired.

You might want to raise the bar and start adding a goat.

[Fly320s]

You might want to raise the bar and start adding a goat.

Does goat cheese count?  Not sure I can eat a goat a week.

[seeker_two]

I would have been bummed if it were Jeb Bush.

He would have been able to win the general against Hillary though.

No, he would wilt against the media attacks and fail to show anyone why we should elect him over a liberal.  See McCain and Romney and Dole.

If you really wanted a Bush/Christie ticket, you should vote Libertarian......

[lupinus]

Does goat cheese count?  Not sure I can eat a goat a week.

Goat cheese is for the reception, not the ceremony.

If a goat a week is to hard I'd go with at least monthly. Course, there's always human sacrifice and there's plenty of feral ones to choose from.

[RoadKingLarry]

Does goat cheese count?  Not sure I can eat a goat a week.

They're really not that big. But, you could go with the smaller pygmy varieties.

[bedlamite]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/16/libertarian-nominee-gary-johnson-guns-debates-pot/85982250/

I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might, how government might, interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

[Fitz]

We could have nominated Jeb Bush and he would have won.

 

 

[HForrest]

Well laugh all you want, it's true. Hillary is disliked enough-- this isn't comparable to 1996, 2008 or 2012. Only Trump could lose this one for us. Perhaps Christie would have lost it as well. Any of the other contenders would have managed to pull it off.

[HForrest]

No, he would wilt against the media attacks and fail to show anyone why we should elect him over a liberal.

Donald Trump has failed to show anyone why we should elect him over a liberal.

Being a "straight talker" and "not wilting against media attacks" has nothing to do with Republican values. That's what Chris Christie does also. Both he and Trump are big-government, authoritarian, establishment RINOs.

And if your argument is that the wimpy GOP establishment candidates of elections past are responsible for losing elections for being too weak and not sufficiently mobilizing the true "conservative base" of the party, then what the heck is that supposed to say about Trump? His nomination has fractured the Republican coalition to a significantly greater degree than any other GOP establishment candidate has in the recent past. Real conservatives want nothing to do with his BS and are flocking away from the party in DROVES. You cannot tell me that Romney or McCain had anywhere near this sort of effect. Romney and McCain did not get George Will to leave the Republican party. Romney and McCain did not get Charles Koch to compare the nominee to cancer or a heart attack.

[Scout26]

Does goat cheese count?  Not sure I can eat a goat a week.

No Muslim neighborhoods where you live?  They have Halal butcher shops.  You could probably get a goat a day (for every meal) if you wanted....


Swing by O'Hare or Midway sometime, and I can give you a planeload.  Enough for the entire election cycle....

[Fly320s]

I'm in NH.  We do not have "ethnicities."  We have white people. Lots of white people.  Almost all white people.  I think NH is 99% white.  But I can get goat meat from a few vendors thanks to all the crunchies/hippies around here.

[roo_ster]

I really was not expecting the george will card to be thrown.  But i wasnt expecting the JEB card either.  Life is full of surprises and absurdities.

[lee n. field]

I'm in NH.  We do not have "ethnicities."  We have white people. Lots of white people.  Almost all white people.  I think NH is 99% white.  But I can get goat meat from a few vendors thanks to all the crunchies/hippies around here.

That was something that I noticed on our trip out to NH a couple years ago.  "Where are the black people?"  I'm used to way more black people.