Gary Johnson should go get his shine box.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Johnson is an embarrassment–to the country and to himself. His responses in NH are stunning in their ignorance.
“Moderate”GOPers who I know, are proudly proclaiming, Proudly mind you, that they are voting for Johnson because they can’t support Trump. How do you respond to something like that?
Don’t respond to it. If GOPers aren’t voting for Trump, that’s good enough.
I have heard that Johnson is drawing more voters from Clinton than Trump. I believe Brian Williams said that last night during the discussion of Johnson’s abysmal performance.
To those who haven’t seen Chris Matthews’ interview of him, the only world leader he could name was Shimon Peres. He could not name a single living leader of any country. And was very untroubled by the fact that he couldn’t. So as President, an aide will give him a spreadsheet with the names of all the countries and their leaders? Face palm.
To those who haven’t seen Chris Matthews’ interview of him, the only world leader he could name was Shimon Peres.
Peres isn’t a world leader. He’s a long ago one, who just died. That’s the only reason this idiot could name him. Peres is in the news because he kicked the bucket yesterday.
I’m not sure that it was Johnson who said Peres. I think Weld said it and Chris Matthews said, “someone alive.” Poor Gary.
I pointed out that he couldn’t name a living world leader.
Johnson has risen to the comedy gold level of Carson, Cain, Bachmann …
Jesus, they’re all like that aren’t they? Rubio, Cruz, Gingrich, Christie, Giuliani, Limbaugh, Graham, Huckabee, Fiorina, Palin, McCain, Romney, McConnell, Boehner, Erickson, Kristol, all the Bushes, all GOP reps and sens. They’re all comically nuts and transparently full of crap. It’s appalling what a collective caricature the GOP has become.
There’s almost no one I hate more than Chris Matthews, but he’s occasionally a very useful idiot. Like when he got Trump to step on his foot and mis-dog-whistle on abortion.
And then there’s Joe & Mika – sort of a two-headed Chris Matthews – they not only interrupt their guests but they interrupt each other in the process. Ugh.
I’m still going to vote for pot legalization in CA but Johnson is making me remember why they call it dope. I wish we could get a high profile gaffe out of Stein – she seems like another clown. The perfect three-way from HRC’s perspective would be HRC-Trump-McMullen. Trump & McMullen would be very nicely representative of the GOP fissure.
This is your brain on drugs.
The good thing about having a president like Johnson is that he would never bother to bomb or invade a country he can’t find on a map. I
Brain damaged by drugs.
He really is dumber than a bag of hammers.
Further proof America has lost its mind.
He’s polling near double digits.
These are very sad days for people who, up to now, were optimistic about the long run progress of humanity. The reality is well beyond sobering. Ignorance seems to be in ascendancy on a global basis with full American participation. Hopefully, this is the high water mark and the tide gets turned back in November.
Didn’t think we’d see anyone top Rick Perry’s “Ooops!” moment but Johnson hit it out of the park with this one.
Like Charlie Pierce said– Wrong guy at the top of the ticket.
I expect that when he was governor of New Mexico, he kept wondered what “Mexico” was.
Ha. But that would suggest a level of curiosity that is not in evidence.
Not to dismiss the possibility that Johnson is an ignoramus, but the question was:
Who should be on the list of foreign leaders that a Libertarian would respect? Someone that presides over a country with a government sector that does next to nothing and costs next to nothing. Where all individuals are free to be predators and exploiters, and if individuals are too poor or too ignorant not to be exploited, tough shit.
Johnson and all the Libertarians have no social conscience and a fantasy belief in their own omnipotence and superior gifts and grit that would make them wealthy beyond belief if not for government repression. IOW, they’re sort of stuck at an adolescent stage of development.
True, but he didn’t fail to answer because there was no one he respected. It was clear he couldn’t think of anyone. He even said, I guess this is an Aleppo moment.
Ignorant and slow on his feet as well. Guess his role models were Reagan and GWB, and he’s too lame to have figured out that a GOP nominee gets cut a lot of slack that a third party nominee won’t get. And it’s not as if this is Johnson’s first ride at the rodeo. Very stupid man.
I mean, no longer PM, but he was not too long ago: David Cameron because he privatized the the mail service — “proving” we could do the same without “the sky falling”.
A better answer would have been Yeltsin because he privatized most of the USSR state.
In NM he was known as Governor Veto. And a 20% cut in government spending would be catastrophic to the economy. Recessionary. But … marijuana!!!!
heh — the “just say no Gov” — with that guiding political principal, one doesn’t need to known anything about anything. Much like most US governors, they’re bozos that are rewarded by being re-elected.
Kevin Drum recently laid out the reality of Gary Johnson. I forwarded this to my millenial nephews and some of their friends who were big Bernie supporters, but now say they are voting for Johnson. Most of them are unabashedly liberal, and have somehow gotten it into their heads that Johnson is just Bernie-lite, and an acceptable alternative.
And how did they respond to these facts?
For the most part they view Trump and Clinton as equally bad choices, just on opposite ends of the political spectrum. And to them, Johnson is outside the system of status quo politics. Honestly, they seem to know very little about what he proposes, and they really don’t seem to care. For many of them this is their first election, and they know little of the history of politics. Since their guy Bernie didn’t win, they view this as a big FU to everyone else, especially people like me, who voted for Bernie bit now support Clinton.
It is hard to convey to them the historical context of the current political environment. Many of these people were just young teenagers when Obama took office. So the extent of their experiences is confined to a very, very short period of time. A time which has seen unprecedented polarization.
So sad and frustrating that, perhaps, a significant (determinative?) portion won’t be swayed by reason, facts, or pragmatism beyond the FU stage. Well, perhaps you can convince them to vote Dem downballot, or are they not open to that?
Are we sure he doesn’t want to abolish the minimum wage?
From an interview with Johnson earlier this year on HuffPost Live.
And this is the go-to alternative to Bernie for millenials?
Andy Borowitz in The New Yorker: Gary Johnson’s favorite foreign leader is Obi Wan Kenobi