He'd lock down my vote instantly.

https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/03/justi...esident-as

Justin Amash would be the ideal LP nominee. I’d have to wait until closer to the election before I decided whom to support, but I’d look very favorably on him and his candidacy.

Curious if he could be on the Michigan ballot for both Congress and President.

(03-03-2019 04:13 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  He'd lock down my vote instantly.
https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/03/justi...esident-as

Mine too.

(03-03-2019 04:40 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Justin Amash would be the ideal LP nominee. I’d have to wait until closer to the election before I decided whom to support, but I’d look very favorably on him and his candidacy.
Curious if he could be on the Michigan ballot for both Congress and President.

Perhaps even curiouser about whether he could run for president as a libertarian and for congress as a republican.

I really hate to say it, but with how tenuous things are right now... and how FAR left the Dems have swung, more than ever I think a vote for a Right win 3rd Party is a vote for the Left against Trump.
If you're in a state that is definitely going to go Red... have at it, vote LP to give them more attention and hopefully get them into the debates. But if you're in a battleground state... please stand in lock step with the rest of the conservatives and hold the line against the Socialists.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Lets not lose the War because we're too busy fighting each other in smaller battles.

(03-03-2019 05:09 PM)q5sys Wrote:  I really hate to say it, but with how tenuous things are right now... and how FAR left the Dems have swung, more than ever I think a vote for a Right win 3rd Party is a vote for the Left against Trump.
If you're in a state that is definitely going to go Red... have at it, vote LP to give them more attention and hopefully get them into the debates. But if you're in a battleground state... please stand in lock step with the rest of the conservatives and hold the line against the Socialists.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Lets not lose the War because we're too busy fighting each other in smaller battles.

This^^^

(03-03-2019 05:45 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 05:09 PM)q5sys Wrote:  I really hate to say it, but with how tenuous things are right now... and how FAR left the Dems have swung, more than ever I think a vote for a Right win 3rd Party is a vote for the Left against Trump.
If you're in a state that is definitely going to go Red... have at it, vote LP to give them more attention and hopefully get them into the debates. But if you're in a battleground state... please stand in lock step with the rest of the conservatives and hold the line against the Socialists.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Lets not lose the War because we're too busy fighting each other in smaller battles.

This^^^

I've been in enemy of my enemy is my friend mode for years.

Republicans don't do anything for me except not be democrats.

I've voted libertarian since 1980, partly because Texas was pretty safely republican. I don't know what I'll do in 2020.

(03-03-2019 05:50 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 05:45 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 05:09 PM)q5sys Wrote:  I really hate to say it, but with how tenuous things are right now... and how FAR left the Dems have swung, more than ever I think a vote for a Right win 3rd Party is a vote for the Left against Trump.
If you're in a state that is definitely going to go Red... have at it, vote LP to give them more attention and hopefully get them into the debates. But if you're in a battleground state... please stand in lock step with the rest of the conservatives and hold the line against the Socialists.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Lets not lose the War because we're too busy fighting each other in smaller battles.

This^^^

I've been in enemy of my enemy is my friend mode for years.

Republicans don't do anything for me except not be democrats.

I've voted libertarian since 1980, partly because Texas was pretty safely republican. I don't know what I'll do in 2020.

Something to keep in mind:

He’d have my vote. I love in Alabama so the odds of us going blue are about as good as UAB winning the football nc.

(03-03-2019 06:29 PM)dfarr Wrote:  He’d have my vote. I love in Alabama so the odds of us going blue are about as good as UAB winning the football nc.

He’s got my vote.

(03-03-2019 07:12 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 06:29 PM)dfarr Wrote:  He’d have my vote. I love in Alabama so the odds of us going blue are about as good as UAB winning the football nc.

I meant in a presidential election. Surely the national republicans wouldn’t pick someone as electable as Moore. I always voted against the guy even back in his Supreme Court days.

Easy decision. Hell yes to Amash.

(03-03-2019 10:29 PM)dfarr Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 07:12 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 06:29 PM)dfarr Wrote:  He’d have my vote. I love in Alabama so the odds of us going blue are about as good as UAB winning the football nc.

I meant in a presidential election. Surely the national republicans wouldn’t pick someone as electable as Moore. I always voted against the guy even back in his Supreme Court days.

it was a federal election. the point is that there is such a thing as ******* up so bad that you can turn even alabama blue, and the first step of that process is thinking something like, "there is no way we can turn alabama blue".

may as well vote for buggs bunny. he has a better chance of winning. and his legislative accomplishments are very similar.

(03-04-2019 09:20 AM)EagleX Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 10:29 PM)dfarr Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 07:12 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 06:29 PM)dfarr Wrote:  He’d have my vote. I love in Alabama so the odds of us going blue are about as good as UAB winning the football nc.

I meant in a presidential election. Surely the national republicans wouldn’t pick someone as electable as Moore. I always voted against the guy even back in his Supreme Court days.

it was a federal election. the point is that there is such a thing as ******* up so bad that you can turn even alabama blue, and the first step of that process is thinking something like, "there is no way we can turn alabama blue".

Bama is not blue. The media lied to the God fearing people of the state and they voted for a moron over an accused criminal.

All it proved is Alabama republicans have a conscience and were duped. Won't happen again. Some of us weren't fooled and Kavanaugh is the proof.

(03-04-2019 09:30 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(03-04-2019 09:20 AM)EagleX Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 10:29 PM)dfarr Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 07:12 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(03-03-2019 06:29 PM)dfarr Wrote:  He’d have my vote. I love in Alabama so the odds of us going blue are about as good as UAB winning the football nc.

I meant in a presidential election. Surely the national republicans wouldn’t pick someone as electable as Moore. I always voted against the guy even back in his Supreme Court days.

it was a federal election. the point is that there is such a thing as ******* up so bad that you can turn even alabama blue, and the first step of that process is thinking something like, "there is no way we can turn alabama blue".

Bama is not blue. The media lied to the God fearing people of the state and they voted for a moron over an accused criminal.

All it proved is Alabama republicans have a conscience and were duped. Won't happen again. Some of us weren't fooled and Kavanaugh is the proof.

I wasn't being critical. mississippi flirted with making nearly the same mistake with chris mcdaniels. it's easier to do that you would think.

I was simply pointing out that saying "there is no way we could turn alabama blue" is the first step in a process that demonstrably turned it blue.

because yonder the sits the big idiot in the senate tight now.

Amash has now (18th May) posted on Twitter that he supports the impeachment of President Trump

The plot thickens!

(03-03-2019 04:13 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  He'd lock down my vote instantly.

https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/03/justi...esident-as

I can rule out his victory instantly

Voting for Tulsi in the primary. Assuming she doesn't win the nomination, I'm probably going to just sit 2020 out. Trump hasn't earned my vote, and the libertarian party is cringe and blue-pilled.