Gary Johnson’s Campaign to Make Hillary President

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Gary Johnson’s Campaign to Make Hillary President
A career in hypocrisy
August 9, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

 This is the summer of Gary Johnson. The former New Mexico governor who has been steadily drifting left over his career is now doing his best to make Hillary Clinton into President Hillary Clinton.

Back in 1999, Johnson rejected overtures from the Libertarian Party for a presidential run. “I'm a Republican, and I'm not going to run for President.'”

Both parts of that statement proved to be lies.

Libertarian and non-libertarian supporters see a principled politician in Gary Johnson. But Johnson has always been a political chameleon, shifting his colors to win elections.

Gary Johnson is now desperately courting Bernie Sanders voters. Johnson told CNN that, “We think that about 75% of what we’ve got to say really ties with Bernie Sanders supporters.” At CNN’s Town Hall, he claimed it was 70 percent. On C-SPAN, he claimed it was 73 percent. How many Socialists are there in the Libertarian Party? Apparently it’s all in the numbers.

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[bolobaby]

Just another way of saying, "Anything but a vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary."

[ABX]

The big flaw in this is Johnson hasn't been going after the Right vote, but he is focused on and positioning towards the disaffected Bernie voter. It is turning off a lot of Libertarians and Conservatives who lean Libertarian who were considering him an option.

ie, he is going after Hillary's base, not helping her.

[jmyrlefuller]

The big flaw in this is Johnson hasn't been going after the Right vote, but he is focused on and positioning towards the disaffected Bernie voter. It is turning off a lot of Libertarians and Conservatives who lean Libertarian who were considering him an option.

ie, he is going after Hillary's base, not helping her.

Exactly. If he's pursuing the Bernie vote (and I think it's more of a case of pursuing the young vote, where he's doing very well) that Hillary needs to retain to win, how does that help Hillary win?

Greenfield's logic is based on the same flawed premise that the moderators here have banned as being false and defamatory: that there is no way one can oppose Hillary Clinton without also pledging fealty to Donald Trump. These types cannot defend how horrible Trump is as a candidate and as a person, so they must tear down any potential threat. Now that threat is Johnson; the mere presence of him in the race is enough for Greenfield to demand he not be treated seriously.

If any good can come from his alleged pandering, it is that Johnson listens to the people and tries to act accordingly. That is an important trait—a dangerous one if one relies too much on it, but important.

[RoosGirl]

So Johnson says one thing back in 1999 and now 17 years later when those things are no longer accurate because things change over 17 years he's a liar.  But Trump being a democrat, then a republican, then an independent, then back and forth and forth and back, that's just fine?  Why do these people think we should give a dingdang what they have to say?