Posted on 08/05/2016 7:48:17 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and his veep, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld
There are small-L libertarians who believe in liberty and then there are big-L libertarians, also known as Libertarians, who believe in the Libertarian Party.
The Libertarian Party presidential ticket this year consists of two former Republicans, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and his veep, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld.
Even as a registered, card-carrying, dues-paying Libertarian Party member who got lots of emails from state and national party leaders, I was not privy to whatever system they used for nominating Gary Johnson. (I'm not implying that their other candidates were any better.) As near as I can tell, they had a convention in some part of the state that was too far away to attend and only those physically present had any say. This is like the system the Colorado Banana Republicans used, but with even less of a pretense that the rank-and-file was involved. It looks like the attendees of the state convention who decided everything were simply those who lived closest to the convention site and had the spare time to attend.
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