Is the "you in" a good political ad from the Libertarian party?

[EMNofSeattle]

It's certainly a lot more likely, seeing as both parties have a lot of supporters already in Congress. Libertarians do not because they don't actually try to get people at the lower rungs elected. There isn't a ready support base in Congress for anything they might want to do.

Which is bascially the rub, they're really angling as blue state republicans and not as libertarians, because if by some stroke of magic they are elected they will not have a ready support base of libertarians to advance libertarian ideology.

And it's doubtful blue state red governor politics is likely to work either because getting elected as a "democrat" in a moderate state legislative district or a "republican" in the same is much different then being elected to congress where districts overwhelmingly favor the more extreme ends of ideology and bigger money is funneled to them.

 

[EMNofSeattle]

Come on, #FeeltheJohnson

Well running up that hashtag will certainly get the ticket some name recognition. no publicity is bad publicity right?

 

[Cephus]

Which is bascially the rub, they're really angling as blue state republicans and not as libertarians, because if by some stroke of magic they are elected they will not have a ready support base of libertarians to advance libertarian ideology.

And it's doubtful blue state red governor politics is likely to work either because getting elected as a "democrat" in a moderate state legislative district or a "republican" in the same is much different then being elected to congress where districts overwhelmingly favor the more extreme ends of ideology and bigger money is funneled to them.

That's really the problem the Libertarians have had all along is that they've largely tried a top-down approach, not bottom-up. They want to start with the Presidency, as a lot of third parties do, instead of building up candidates who are big city mayors or large state governors, who have proven that the libertarian philosophy actually works in practice. That way, when you get someone running for President, you already have a large number of libertarians in Congress. Now you don't. If, by some miracle, Johnson ever won, he'd spend 4 years spinning his wheels because Congress would never let him do a damn thing.

 

[Crovax]

It's certainly a lot more likely, seeing as both parties have a lot of supporters already in Congress. Libertarians do not because they don't actually try to get people at the lower rungs elected. There isn't a ready support base in Congress for anything they might want to do.

Two former republican governors would have less support than a life long liberal democrat that hijacked the GOP? Johnson would have just about the same support as any GOP presidential. He might lose a little from the GOP but gain the few moderate dems left.

 

[Crovax]

That's really the problem the Libertarians have had all along is that they've largely tried a top-down approach, not bottom-up. They want to start with the Presidency, as a lot of third parties do, instead of building up candidates who are big city mayors or large state governors, who have proven that the libertarian philosophy actually works in practice. That way, when you get someone running for President, you already have a large number of libertarians in Congress. Now you don't. If, by some miracle, Johnson ever won, he'd spend 4 years spinning his wheels because Congress would never let him do a damn thing.

Really? I see libertarian candidates in almost every local election here

 

[Cephus]

Really? I see libertarian candidates in almost every local election here

Winning? Big cities? Major states? Running doesn't matter, you have to win.