Friday, May 20, 2016

DAVID BOAZ at The Daily Beast On the Johnson-Weld Ticket

++Since the Romney-Kristol anti-Trump candidate hasn't panned out, the libertarians on Memorial Day weekend are to nominate Gary Johnson and Bill Weld. Boaz says this is the first time two governors have been on a ticket since Tom Dewey and Earl Warren in 1948.

++The two men are appealing to moderate Republicans and those disgusted with Donald Trump. The beauty is that the libertarians are on all fifty ballots, something a third candidate couldn't manage. However,the best showing of the Libertarians was 1980 when David Koch ran as vice President and funded the party. They got 1% of the vote nationally.

++Presently Johnson is polling at 10% in some polls but he has no monster donors. Boaz fantasizes that the ticket will do in Alaska,Maine, New Mexico and Utah. 

++The idea is to drive the election into the House presuming neither Trump or Clinton can get to 270. There the anti-Trump forces believe they can draft a more reasonable Republican nominee. In the House,really?

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