Posted on 08/31/2016 9:42:44 AM PDT by C19fan
Still trying to figure out what makes Johnson and big government Weld remotely libertarian. The big L in the party seems to be more of a progressive liberal.
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I doubt he’ll do well. In reality, a healthy percentage of New Mexicans don’t like illegals.
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But how many of them are up to speed on his stance?
Only those who are paying attention, but it's made more news here in NM, simply because he is a former Governor.
Right - it as only a few years ago the word “immigrant” meant one who entered the country legally and possessed a “green card.”
The surprising thing about Johnson is he’s not Libertarian at all. Most important is he agrees with the anthropogenic global warming superstition, making him a prime statist who will impost a crushing regulatory burden on everyone through carbon consumption controls. He also seems to like the idea of SCOUS justices like Ginsberg. All in all, that makes him a lot like John Anderson in 1980 and no real Libertarian.
Jill Stein's vote is negligible, so this means that Johnson is taking at least as many would-be Democratic as would-be Republican voters.
Since Johnson/Weld's ersatz "libertarianism" is basically just Clinton-style liberalism with a tax cut, it really isn't surprising that Johnson takes as many (or more) votes from Hillary as he does from Trump. If he's a "spoiler" at all, he may be a spoiler in our favor.
Clinton, 1995, immigration, SOTU Bill Clinton talking about immigration in the 1995 State of the Union.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4351026/clinton-1995-immigration-sotu
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