[ExI] Johnson has ANOTHER "Aleppo moment"!

Thu Sep 29 22:38:20 UTC 2016

The Libertarians have had that problem all along. The problem is that
nobody takes "third" parties seriously, so serious candidates don't run as
Libertarians. Classic chicken/egg.

-Dave

Or maybe Catch 22

Esteemed political philosopher Herr Professor Wallace here at your service.

I think the problem with the Libertarians is that, as far as I know and
have heard, they only run for big offices.  You build a party from the
ground up, meaning start small, establish some validity and reputation for
honesty and so on.  Start local and work up from there.

I cannot understand the purpose of running for offices you clearly are not
going to win.  It establishes you as a loser, an also-ran, maybe even kind
of an oddball.  In other words, poor psychology.

Thus you will likely need a new name, which no doubt will be supplied by
Spike, and look like this:

The Humanitarian Freedom Liberty Extropy Posthuman Centrist Party

bill w

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:34 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:42 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrot
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>> >>…If these guys can balance the budget
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>> >…Like Bill Clinton did?
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>> > Like Newt Gingrich did?  Actually neither of them did: it was
>> accounting tricks.  They robbed Social Security by moving welfare cases to
>> SS disability.
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> That is incorrect, even if you ignore Social Security there was *STILL*
> a surplus 
> of $1.9 billion in  1999 and $86.4 billion in 2000
> , Clinton's
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> last year.
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> http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-under-clinton/
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>>> …Face it Spike, thanks to Johnson the Libertarians are getting the
>>> reputation as the silly party, not to be confused with the Republicans who
>>> now will forever be known as the stupid party.
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>>> John what kind of reputation do you think Hilliary has given her party?
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> The Democratic party will have s reputation for nomination somebody
> knowing what Aleppo is and being able to name a foreign leader, several in
> fact.
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>>> The budget deficit is not a pressing issue, although a case could be
>>> made that it's too small
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>> What happens when interest rates go back up?  With a debt this size, we
>> will devour our entire revenue just paying interest.  This will not be good.
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> If the government is ever going to borrow money, as its been doing
> nearly every year since 1835, then now is certainly the time to do it when
> interest rates are almost zero.
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