Posted on 05/30/2016 11:08:46 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Earlier this evening, Gary Johnson was elected to be the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, achieving a 50% tally in the second ballot and securing his second straight LP nomination. Austin Petersen and John McAfee put up good fights, but weren’t able to attain enough votes necessary to win the nomination, coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
McAfee neglected to endorse Gary Johnson, but Austin Petersen made it clear from the beginning of his campaign that he would endorse whichever candidate the LP elected. While Petersen and Gary often had testy moments with each other in the debates, Austin stood by his word by endorsing Johnson after he won the candidacy.
As a token of good faith, Austin gave Johnson a replica of George Washington’s flintlock pistol, to let him know that he has Austin’s full support in the general election. Tearing up on the front stage of the convention floor, Austin said to Gary as he presented him with the pistol, “You have my sword, and you have my gun.”
Hours later, a number of delegates were reporting on social media that Johnson was seen tossing Austin’s pistol in the garbage. A husband and wife witnessed Johnson throwing out the pistol and retrieved it from the garbage. The pistol has since been returned to Austin Petersen and remains in his possession.
(Excerpt) Read more at libertyhangout.org ...
Childish behavior.
Damn. I knew GJ was a doof, but didn’t know he was also a callous one.
Gary Johnson = Nutcase, just like Glenn Beck & Bill Kristol!!!
No super delegates?
Johnson is a dog crap libertarian. The party is rotten with top end members that don’t actually walk a libertarian walk at all, it’s almost as if the uniparty has them staffed with Manchurian pols and just use the party to siphon off the more voiciferous members of their fringes.
The pettiness of rejecting his primary opponent’s support sucks.
The carelessness of throwing a gun in a trash can sucks.
The anti-gun symbolism really sucks.
Gary Johnson sucks!
The anti-gun symbolism of picking Bill Weld to be his running mate sucks worse.
A four letter headline would have been sufficient.
That sure seems to be the case. I mean, William Weld as VP on the LPUSA ticket? That's absolutely ludicrous. Weld supported a semi-auto ban when he was governor of Massachusetts!
The Uniparty seems to be exercising some kind of nefarious influence in the LP this cycle.
No matter, Donald Trump will not be stopped by such gnats...
Vote Trump!
Johnson is as classy as Beck
GJ is an open borders libertarian dope....
If i wasnt behind trump 100%..... i am now
I wouldn’t know. I don’t follow anything the LP is doing.
They should’ve nominated the fat stripper guy.
Johnson is looking more and more like a GREAT PLACE for Bernie voters to go...perhaps we should help lead them there?
Yes, his little “exhibition” pretty much tells everything you need to know about the current Libertarian Party. Their nominee can’t decide if U.S. intervention in World War II—World War II, for heaven’s sake—was justified. His running mate appears to support some sort of gun grab, and one of the candidates for party chair puts on a strip tease for the assembled delegates and a C-SPAN audience.
And Libertarians wonder why they can’t get any traction with voters.
Actually, they're in the process of hijacking it.
I expect Johnson to be prominently featured in any future presidential debates and the MSM will be touting him as an alternative to Trump.
What a disgusting and dishonorable man Johnson is. To show this kind of disrespect to Washington pistols is anti-American.
http://libertyhangout.org/2016/05/gary-johnson-campaign-offers-austin-petersen-500-for-his-gun/
>>Last night we reported that Gary Johnson was witnessed to have thrown out the flintlock pistol Austin Petersen gave to him as a symbol of unity, and that the gun has since been returned to Petersen. But the story doesn’t end there, as developments continue to unfold
>>Earlier this morning, Johnson was approached by two gentlemen that asked him if he threw out Petersen’s gun, and he refused to answer. They then asked where the gun was, and he responded, “I don’t know.”
>>The Gary Johnson campaign then approached the Petersen camp this afternoon and offered them $500 to have the gun back and act like nothing happened. The Petersen camp declined the offer.
This story has been verified by numerous delegates at the convention, as well as two state coordinators for Austin Petersen.
Nobody in US politics is who they purport to be...except Trump. That alone explains his increasing popularity.
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