While most of us appreciate this short lull in the presidential race, it makes it pretty difficult on us pundits.
Usually, it's pretty easy to find something to write about. But with the world's focus on yesterday's early-morning crash of Egyptair Flight 804, and no more primary contests until June, I was digging hard this morning.
I could have blogged again about how the Republicans are coalescing, just as the Hatch Principle predicts. Or, I could have talked about Hillary Clinton's Freudian Slip, yesterday, where she affirmed to CNN's Chris Cuomo that Bernie Sanders is her choice for VP.
We'll leave the latter for another time.
It dawned on me, just a few minutes ago, what I should write about this morning, and I think it's a pretty important thing to point out.
If you can't see yourself ticking the box for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, you should know that there is an alternative--one that is quite viable.
I don't know why this actually is, but it's an option that gets very little attention from the media.
There's a former two-term Republican governor with a conservative fiscal but liberal social agenda who'll be on the ballot in all 50 states. He represents a well-established political party with a platform that nearly everyone who learns about it likes.
This candidate's numbers are slowly and quietly building, and soon he could meet the polling threshold to qualify him for federal campaign funds. If that happens, you'll know his name.
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| Look. I know you don't know who in the heck I am, but maybe you will by November. I could be your best choice. |
I'm talking about Governor Gary Johnson, former chief executive of New Mexico, and he'll be the nominee of the Libertarian party.
Normally, being such is a pretty futile effort. But perhaps not so much this year.
By all accounts, Johnson was a pretty good governor. I found a detailed review of his tenure where a staunch Democrat claimed he "loved" the guy. Click on the link and read it for yourself.
I personally like his innovative approach to ending the 'war on drugs', and that he refused to fund any program in financially-strapped New Mexico that didn't pay for itself. His fiscal conservatism helped turn the state's economy around.
The Libertarian party has gotten such a hard freeze from the mainstream news media that many, if not most people, don't even know it exists. But it's been around since 1971, and its candidate will be the only third-party option in every state.
Basically, the Libertarian philosophy is that you should pay for what you use and be treated like an adult. What's not to like about that?
Johnson is most politically similar to Bernie Sanders, but in a younger, less-rumpled package.
He was New Mexico's pick twice and ran the governor's office effectively and until his term maxed out. He's about as mainstream as a candidate can be.
It's an indisputable fact that Gary Johnson will be a third-party option, He deserves serious consideration.
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