Weld is on a few issues like the drug war but you are right he's not a true libertarian. Johnson is very Libertarian though on probably 90% of the issues. Johnson is not as polished at speaking cause he's not a career politician, he's a businessman, he was a very successful governor that was well liked because he was a doer and not a smooth talker.
Weld is still more Libertarian than anyone else from the other two parties though, he's got experience, is connected, and can raise money. That's why he was brought on board. Plus he's very conservative fiscally.
I was real impressed with Weld, Johnson....I was not "un-impressed" with, I just do not feel he has a personality/ projectable "strength"
....je ne sais quoi ....in French, like....a personality that can achieve a strong enough following amongst voters to have them consider him seriously.
It was funny how easily Anderson Copper was able to "corner" Johnson. Pretty Much all other Politicians can slip out of questions, avoid answering those by answering with answers that are not answers but Johnson is completely and utterly incapable of such evasion
"REFRESHING", absolutely but this equals = a candidate gets too "pinned down", such as Johnson did on both the Assault Weapons question and Marijuana.
Johnson's "Smacks of Pay-to-Play" on Hillary, instead of just coming right out ans SAYING that she was doing the bidding of those who gave money to her & Bill, while she was Secretary of State, was wimpy.
He basically said that. He should have rented the balls from somewhere to just straight out say it.
I was very disappointed that he chose instead to turn into a pussy, at that precise moment.
I was real impressed with Weld, Johnson....I was not "un-impressed" with, I just do not feel he has a personality/ projectable "strength"
....je ne sais quoi ....in French, like....a personality that can achieve a strong enough following amongst voters to have them consider him seriously.
It was funny how easily Anderson Copper was able to "corner" Johnson. Pretty Much all other Politicians can slip out of questions, avoid answering those by answering with answers that are not answers but Johnson is completely and utterly incapable of such evasion
"REFRESHING", absolutely but this equals = a candidate gets too "pinned down", such as Johnson did on both the Assault Weapons question and Marijuana.
Johnson's "Smacks of Pay-to-Play" on Hillary, instead of just coming right out ans SAYING that she was doing the bidding of those who gave money to her & Bill, while she was Secretary of State, was wimpy.
He basically said that. He should have rented the balls from somewhere to just straight out say it.
I was very disappointed that he chose instead to turn into a pussy, at that precise moment.
The Dems and Reps control the debates, and they might let him in I've heard no matter what he's polling. They are playing nice on Hillary cause they don't want her to see them as a threat. They are actually a bigger threat to her though in the long run, because a lot of people are willing to turn a blind eye on Hillary because they wont vote Trump.
I also agree that the media would go after them hard with nonsense if they thought they were a threat to Hillary. They went after Ron Paul hard when he was a threat with the misleading garbage. While they do that to Trump, Trump doesn't do himself any favors though. Trump's actually very liberal and could be winning this thing id democrats actually were smart enough to see it.
The Say you guys keep making about Johnson/Weld being MORE -EV for HILLARY, "pulling more", a bigger threat to Hillary than Trump is literally impossible for me to comprehend.
So Many people want desperately to not have to Vote for Hillary and believe that they have no other option.
My inability to comprehend this though feels EXACTLY like my inability to comprehend how people were telling me "Baltimore + the points" versus that Pittsburgh Steelers team that went 3-0 their previous 3 before facing BALT and scored an avg. of 33 points per game in dong that and BALT was an injury ridden JV looking squad
tl:dr you guys are likely right about Johnson/Weld pulling more from Hillary just I am not smart enough to comprehend this.
I did say, in a post above, that I didn't want them in The Debates....theres no hope at all of me sticking to that philosophy cuz my default is Freedom Of Choice.
People babble on about how stuff "conflicts with our American Values" well not having Johnson/Weld on those Debate Stages would be a clash with those values on par with The Titanic.
People need to Rise and DEMAND that Johnson/Weld be there.
Possible to look at this as +EV for Trump also, in the sense that if they are there it would = less time Trump would be able to spend talking and, honestly?
Judging by these last 72 hours alone, the less time Trump spend talking.....the better.
Dude on the news said the best ting I've ever heard:
"These last 72 hours for TRUMP have been the political equivalent of Chris Farley's last 72 hours on EARTH".
I'm like: WOAH. That dude just burnt Trump down, Man. Scorched Earth.
