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Libertarian Party: CPD decides to make their first debates irrelevant
Libertarian Party ^
| September 16, 2016
Posted on 09/16/2016 4:22:29 PM PDT by snarkpup
Libertarian National Committee Chair, Nicholas Sarwark, released this statement today:
In spite of polls showing that 54-76 percent of voters want Libertarian Gov. Gary Johnson included in debates, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced that it will not include Johnson in the September 26 debate, nor will it include Gov. William Weld in the October 4 vice presidential debate.
They announced this today, late on a Friday afternoon, known in the spin world as the best time to release news that one wishes to bury.
In their attempt to bolster the chances of the two most hated presidential candidates in American history, the Commission’s decision makes a mockery of their stated mission to "provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners.”
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: garyjohnson; williamweld
OMG. If what this says is true, "not having Gov. Johnson on the stage" will make the debate between just Trump and Clinton "boring and unwatchable."
:)
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:22:29 PM PDT
by
snarkpup
To: snarkpup
We need three liberals on the stage to have a fair and balanced debate?
Got it.
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:24:18 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: snarkpup
I would want the Libertarian to participate, if he were libertarian.
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:24:26 PM PDT
by
oblomov
(We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
To: snarkpup
54% to 76%. Do you have a margin of error on that?
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:24:38 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: fhayek
thanks for posting that. I was wondering myself if that was a scientific poll LOL
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:25:53 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: snarkpup
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:26:46 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
To: snarkpup
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:27:16 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
To: oblomov
Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are liberals.
We need a conservative for balance - Trump and Hillary are liberals, too.
Its a different world from Reagan’s day.
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:27:30 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: oblomov
That's precisely why Johnson is being excluded. If he was truly a libertarian, the MSM would invite him just like they invited Perot, because they knew he was going to help Clinton.
Johnson has embraced statism and in turn will lead to the implosion of the Libertarian Party. The LP should have endorsed Trump and conservative Republicans in Congressional elections.
To: snarkpup
If the Libertarian Party” had nominated a sensible — saleable — non- leftist/ non- statist candidate this year—— they could have had a real chance.
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:27:55 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
To: snarkpup
Pfft................54-76 percent of voters...............if that where true it would be all over whitehouse media.
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:28:09 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton......unfit to serve, shovel ready. I am deplorable.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Libertarians are liberals who used to be big on guns and maximum individual freedom.
That’s not fraud Johnson’s philosophy.
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:29:55 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: fhayek
GMTA.
Johnson could always pull an Anderson, and respond to the questions on a separate network. PBS, iirc.
(That’s the 1980 Reagan - Carter [ - John Anderson] debate)
To: snarkpup
Left vs Right — these terms have become meaningless.
Liberal vs Conservative — these terms have become meaningless
It’s Patriots vs Globalists now. There is no other struggle, except perhaps Christians vs Evil.
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posted on
09/16/2016 4:33:40 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: snarkpup
Johnson-Weld sounds like a product developed for John Bobbitt.
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posted on
09/16/2016 6:31:11 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
To: fhayek
54% to 76%. Do you have a margin of error on that?
Not high versus high, I believe.
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posted on
09/16/2016 7:00:24 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: goldstategop
Perhaps, but you have to support the one brought to the dance and that is Trump. It is too dangerous not to this round.
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posted on
09/16/2016 8:16:56 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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