Johnson, the asshole, ran a Libertarian for the Senate in 2018 (easy to forget) he seemed stronger than the weak Republican to the point that I endorsed him until he faded in the polls down the stretch and he indeed finished a poor third (though he got 15%, as opposed to the 9% he got in NM running for President). The rat ended up with over 50% anyway.
If Johnson had run as a Republican, I think it could have been a different race and maybe he could have even won.
Weld endorsed Biden (even as he was still running against Trump for the nomination!), so he’s in the DIABLO (dem in all but label only) POS fold with Joe Walsh, he should follow Bill Kristol and make the rat thing official.
As for the Libertarian nomination process, most states didn’t have primaries or caucuses and I don’t know why the delegates of those states should give a damn about the results of those that did, especially given the absurdly small number of votes involved, Hornb got 9100 votes (only 22% of the total) and Jorg got 5000. And this was a multi-ballot affair, no one was close to majority on the first ballot and she won by being everyone’s 2nd choice. Their hypocrisy aside, it was perfectly proper. If I were them and wanted to be true to ideals I’d allow all dues paying members (if they have them) to choose the nominee like the parties do in the UK and Canada.
Jorg btw was spotted (by her own photog in order to publicize it) protesting with BLM outside of the White House.
Johnson should’ve run for Senator way back in 2000 against Jeff Bingaman when he was Governor (when he was still a first-tier candidate). If he had won, it would’ve given his Lieutenant a 2-year leg up in facing sleazeball Richardson, who took advantage of an open seat and an upstart Hispanic named Sanchez who upended the Lt Governor in a surprise (and later became Lt Governor himself, but chose not to run for any office when his term expired, not seeing any winnable races).
I hate these popular GOP Governors who pass on running for the Senate when needed, or wait until it’s way too late and they either are a joke (Johnson, Tommy Thompson) or an impediment to a real Conservative choice (Lamar!).
Curiously, Slick Willie Weld did run for the Senate at the apex of his career, the sole time he did something right, but was so clearly bored with his Governor job and could barely distinguish himself from Lurch, we’re probably fortunate he blew that race. He would’ve utilized the Senate as a way to attack Republicans and Conservatives (a la Willard, for whom he hilariously actually played a role in sabotaging in ‘94). MA was too tiny for both these megalomaniacs to be serving in high office at the same time.
Yeah, I forgot about that one. I only endorse a Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate if the GOP candidate is an unacceptable douche AND the Libertarian is semi-decent, like when I supported Mike Labno over Mark Kirk (I DIDN'T endorse Kirk's Libertarian opponent the next time around, as THAT guy was to Kirk's LEFT on a half dozen issues, and only clearly to his right on ONE issue -- gun rights). In any case, I would have almost certainly endorsed Mick Rich over Gary Johnson, regardless of Johnson's "name ID" in that race.
Did Johnson say which party he would have caucused with if he was actually elected to the Senate? Perhaps he took the weasley way out and said he'd caucus with whoever had the majority?
Both of the so-called "Independents" in the Senate now caucus with the RATS, and vote just like them on 90% of the issues anyway.
You mentioned the LP candidate for President pandering the the BLM crowd, I remember back in college I caught some Libertarian candidate pandering to the "Free Palestine! End Zionism!" crowd. The chair of the Illinois Libertarian Party at the time called my allegations over the internet a "smear" and threatened to "sue me" until I got a copy of one of the guy's flyers with the official "Libertarian Party of Chicago" logo that did indeed mimicking the Jew-hating left talking points. He was then forced to admit they let their candidate "ad lib" on the campaign trail and he came up with the idea of pandering to the Israel hating leftists.
That's one of the big issues I have about the LP, they run on being "principled" but they will embrace whatever trendy leftist cause is around in an urban area, if they think it helps them get votes.
As I noted, we see so many damn RINOs try to move the GOP to the LEFT on social issues and use the "I'm a Libertarian, we need to win over socially liberal, fiscally conservative" voters an excuse. But you NEVER see some DINO running in the RAT primary, trying to push THEIR party to the RIGHT on economic issues, and use the same excuse -- even though a lot of leftists CLAIM to be "libertarian". Given how much the Libertarians love pandering to urban Marxists, they should grow some balls and try infiltrating the RATS for a change. Hell, you'd think they'd "balance the ticket" of someone like Barr or Johnson, a former GOP politician, with a former RAT politician as his running mate. But nope.
And there IS a "Libertarian wing" of the RAT party, its called the Democrat Freedom Caucus.