Falling On Principle
Bill Whittle asks: Are you thinking about a protest vote for Ron Paul, Gary Johnson… or no vote at all? This message is for you. H/T The Firewall
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The Third Party Alternative
Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for President, advocates an end to American military intervention overseas, abolition of the income tax, immediately balancing the federal budget and legalizing marijuana. Johnson shares his viewpoints in an extensive interview with SourceFed.
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Libertarian Walking Dead
We’ve given Libertarian Presidential hopeful Gary Johnson a few shameless plugs on this website, but after this shameful zombie commercial and his recent joint appearance with 9-11 conspiracy crackpot Jesse “The Body” Ventura, we’re running for the hills. Being Libertarian implies liberties might be taken, but this commercial earns the booby prize as the most amateurish political message this election season. With thousands of videos posted daily on YouTube, this is the best the Libertarians could muster? Doesn’t bode well for taking the party seriously.
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The Brief on Gary Johnson
SourceFed outlines the history of Gary Johnson and his political platform as the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate in 2012. Johnson, a two-term former New Mexico governor, is fiscally conservative but socially tolerant. He would dismantle the Department of Education and also advocates legalizing marijuana.
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Ruling Could Erode Freedoms
The Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare has let the fox into the hen house, giving Congress broad new powers to regulate our freedoms. That’s the pessimistic assessment of Judge Andrew Napolitano, former host of Freedom Watch on the Fox Network and now a columnist for the Washington Times, among other publications.
Judge Napolitano sat down with Reason Magazine‘s Matt Welch to discuss Obamacare, the 2012 election and the future of liberty. He remains undecided on whether he’ll vote for Libertarian Presidential hopeful Gary Johnson or back Mitt Romney, saying he’s closer in his thinking to Johnson, but also deeply troubled about the prospect of President Obama appointing any additional Supreme Court justices.
Napolitano is author of a forthcoming book Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Your Constitutional Freedoms, due out late this year.
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Pragmatism Versus Purity
Reason.TV’s Nick Gillespie interviews Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for US President, who promises, if elected, to submit a balanced budget for the year 2013, rolling back federal spending to the 2003 levels. Johnson also calls for Medicaid and Medicare reforms, arguing that genuine savings can be achieved — with minimal pain — if the Feds wise up and drop sundry “strings and mandates” that artificially escalate the price of healthcare.
Johnson appeals for support by declaring, “There are a lot more people in this country that describe themselves as libertarian than vote libertarian. You are a libertarian. How about voting just this way one time?”
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That’s a tempting proposition. Stormy is more in sync with Johnson than with the Republicans and Democrats. But as much as I agree with Johnson and admire his candidacy, I’ll be candid, rather than coy, and let you in on a not-so-veiled secret. Stormy will be pulling the GOP lever come November.
Some election cycles, it makes perfect sense to cast a third-party vote to emphasize a philosophical point or to suggest a new, improved course for the country. This isn’t one of those years. The Republican standard-bearers haven’t been as forthright as Johnson in pledging to uphold civil liberties, end pork-barrel politics and avoid reckless foreign interventionism. But at the minimum, they’re prepared to do what’s needed to get unemployed Americans working again, and that really trumps all of the side issues. We have to get back to business as usual before we can entertain any notions about radically improving upon that.
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