Discussion: Anti-Trump Republican To Launch Independent Bid For President

Wonderful! Anything that takes away from Johnson getting anywhere near 15‰ (and thus on the debate stage) is a damn good thing.

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Let’s hope he can get on the ballot in at least Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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This is going to amount to a quintessential nothing burger…

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Let’s get this party started… :sunglasses:

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The party is almost over & he’s just getting dressed.

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That guy should get the growth on his jaw looked at.

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Evan McMullin, the chief policy director of the House GOP Conference.

A classic example of insider delusion. A bunch of Capitol Hill people know who he is, and think he’d be a great President, but no one else has ever heard of him. Tough to get elected with 0.00000053% of the popular vote.

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Today is August 8th - 2016 …91 days until the election - fantastic fantasy to think someone with essentially zero recognition, near zero campaign infrastructure and insurmountable obstacles to getting on the ballot in most states - could do anything at this point

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Presumably this campaign is only about Nader-ing Trump—not actually getting elected.

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Having less than 150 followers on Twitter is a bad thing? Hmmm. I know some people that go into long, depressing funks when they don’t get a few likes for their posted photos of lunch on Facebook. Does having 300 people know your grandkid is #3 in youth league diving make you special? Here’s a novel thought: No one cares about what you had for lunch, or about your grandkids, or your Tweets. Go away.

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OK. How many ballots can he get on this late?

Not according to that picture above. :slight_smile:

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Having only a binary selection of candidates is very dangerous when candidates like Trump are nominated. We need to have more candidates to vote for. So while I think Libertatianism is horrible, I’d be happy to start seeing 3d and 4th party candidates on stage.

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Wow. Did you borrow this rant from 2011? No one cares what you ate for lunch?

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This guy can serve as the fly at the picnic table. He can occasionally land on Trump’s peach cobbler, pissing him off, leading to a hilarious fit of fruitless swatting, arms swinging in an attempt to make him go away.
McMullin can piss The Donald off, watch him melt down, rinse and repeat. Good times.

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Well, it can’t hurt…

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kendyzdad

I’m someone’s dad, too. It doesn’t define me.

A very Trumpian response. A failure to address the specific complaint, and an attack on something that was not at issue.

You’re learning fast!

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The more parties you have on the ballot, the more likely that someone representing a minority position in the country will be elected. Bad idea.

If the country is 60 percent liberal and 40 percent wildly conservative and you have two strong liberal parties who split that 60 into 30 and 30, guess who wins?

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