Libertarian Thread

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McAfee did absolutely fantastic. I love the guy. He's wonderfully charismatic, he has great ideas, and he would be a wonderful candidate I could vote for in very good conscience.

Gary is weak. Low-energy!

I loathe Petersen. Self-important boner.

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John McAfee is surprisingly cool and charismatic.  I was expecting some sort of maniac given all that I know about him.  I was surprised how polished he was, he wouldn't have been the worst guy on stage at the early major party debates.  Wikipedia says he has fewer votes than DWPERRY, humph.

McAfee doesn't seem to really care much about getting onto Libertarian primary ballots. It seems that he's mostly focused on sending delegates to the convention by other means. I'm not familiar with the Libertarian process, though, but I know only like five states have a primary or caucus for them and they HAVE to pick delegates SOMEHOW.

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I wonder how the Derrick Michael Reid campaign feels about all this.

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My favorite line of the night, now that I think about it, was still from McAfee: "as Libertarians, do we not keep our commitments?".

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McAfee did absolutely fantastic. I love the guy. He's wonderfully charismatic, he has great ideas, and he would be a wonderful candidate I could vote for in very good conscience.

Gary is weak. Low-energy!

I loathe Petersen. Self-important boner.

Why do you loathe Petersen?

His views are cut-and-dry and simplistic. It's possible to be both principled and nuanced. Petersen doesn't appear to realize that. He oversimplifies the concept of "libertarian". His "penny plan" idea is a joke; the problem isn't that spending in general is too high, the problem is that spending on certain things is too high. Instead of across-the-board black or white cuts, we need to recognize there are shades of grey here and that it may be more important to cut Department A than Department B. He has zero charisma, he's robotic in an era of idealization of authenticity. He wouldn't fare well at all in a debate (relevant given this is one of the best cycles for a possible Libertarian in the national debates), his views would turn voters away from the Libertarian party. It was said earlier he seems like he's spent too much time playing on usenet and reading fringe books -- these are not marketable qualities for a candidate.

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McAfee was kind of... strange in this debate. Johnson was on the defensive all night, and Petersen is still a self-important boner.

D. W. PERRY 2016