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<\/p>\nby Michael Krieger
\nLiberrty Blitzkrieg<\/p>\n
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Unlike during the 2012 election, when I supported Gary Johnson\u2019s Presidential bid, I have not backed him at all during his 2016 run. There are several reasons for my lack of enthusiasm, but the\u00a0driving concern has been his apparent support for\u00a0the sovereignty-destroying, corporatist coup masquerading as a free trade deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).<\/strong> Until recently, I assumed\u00a0he must have a thought out reason for supporting\u00a0the calamitous pact, but following his recent foreign policy gaffes, I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that he\u2019s probably just clueless.<\/p>\n This cluelessness seems to extend to his judgment in picking a running-mate, as his VP choice, William\u00a0Weld, is now publicly embarrassing Johnson\u00a0by stating\u00a0he will focus his efforts on defeating Trump as opposed to pushing his own ticket to the voters.<\/p>\n As reported by the Boston Globe<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n The Libertarian vice presidential candidate, William F. Weld, said Tuesday that he plans to focus exclusively on blasting Donald Trump over the next five weeks, a strategic pivot aimed at denying Trump the White House and giving himself a key role in helping to rebuild the GOP.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Weld\u2019s comments in a Globe interview mark a major shift in his mission since he pledged at the Libertarian convention in May that he would remain a Libertarian for life and would do all he could to help elect his running mate, Gary Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico.<\/em><\/p>\n While Weld insisted he still supports Johnson, he said he is now interested primarily in blocking Trump from winning the presidency and then potentially working with longtime Republican leaders such as Mitt Romney and Haley Barbour to create a new path for the party after the election.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Weld, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts, said he is focusing on Trump because, while he disagrees with Hillary Clinton on fiscal and military issues, Trump\u2019s agenda is so objectionable it\u2019s \u201cin a class by itself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He insisted he was not abandoning Johnson, although he signaled that bolting from the Libertarian Party might be a possibility in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m certainly not going to drop them this year,\u201d Weld said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The guy never has been a libertarian, and isn\u2019t a libertarian now.<\/p>\n Weld\u2019s comments seemed sure to reignite suspicions among Libertarians who have questioned his loyalty to the party and have accused him of using the ticket for his own political aims. But Weld\u2019s decision to chart his own course appears to reflect the feeling among his aides, who have privately expressed dismay at Johnson\u2019s flubs on national television, such as when Johnson could not come up with the name of a favorite foreign leader and when he said \u201cWhat is Aleppo?\u201d when asked about the besieged Syrian city.<\/em><\/p>\n Weld insisted he and Johnson remain \u201chappy warriors\u201d and said Johnson is fully supportive of his anti-Trump campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n Weld has been much more critical of Trump than of Clinton, whom he has known since the 1970s, when they were young lawyers working for the House committee that investigated President Richard Nixon.<\/em><\/p>\n Just last week, for example, Weld irked Johnson supporters when he said on MSNBC that he\u2019s \u201cnot sure anybody is more qualified than Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States.<\/strong>\u201d Weld\u2019s new plan calls for him to focus his fire on Trump in a handful of red states \u2014 as well as in at least one swing state, New Hampshire \u2014 where the Libertarians are running strong. Nationally, the ticket is drawing about 7 percent support.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This isn\u2019t just about trashing Trump, he is openly advocating for neocon criminal Hillary Clinton. What an epic embarrassment he is.<\/p>\n Polls show that Johnson and Weld \u2014 who were initially thought to appeal mostly to anti-Trump Republicans \u2014 may be doing more damage to Clinton by siphoning away young voters.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So his solution? Try to help Clinton. I really wish I was making this up.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s obviously a concern,\u201d said Mark Robinson, Weld\u2019s friend, former chief of staff, and colleague at the Boston law firm Mintz Levin. \u201cHe certainly doesn\u2019t want to be in that position where Trump could win and people would be blaming him.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Libertarian ticket has been a gigantic status quo fraud this entire election, and we now have proof. They were content to run aggressively as long as they thought they were hurting Trump. The moment it became clear that they were \u201ctaking\u201d the youth vote from Clinton, Weld sabotaged the whole thing. So here\u2019s the bottom line.<\/p>\n Weld\u2019s comments essentially end Gary Johnson\u2019s run for the Presidency. The only question now is to who\u00a0do his disgusted supporters turn? My guess is that it will not be Hillary Clinton. Some will go Trump, some will go Stein and many will stay at home.<\/p>\n If you are looking for a real\u00a0protest vote this November, there\u2019s only one choice left: Jill Stein of the Green Party.<\/strong> She\u2019s the only one going after both Trump and Clinton, and the only one not playing the lesser of two evils game.<\/p>\n If neither Trump or Clinton appear to you, that\u2019s the ticket.<\/p>\n For related articles, see:<\/p>\n Jill Stein of the Green Party \u2013 Clinton Helped Create Trump<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Donations to Jill Stein\u2019s Campaign Jump 1000% Following the Bernie Betrayal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n