(05-22-2020 08:32 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: Well that was an unmitigated train wreck.
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Yes it was, and the VP debate was if anything worse.
I cannot under any circumstances vote for Biden, I don't really want to vote for Trump, and the libertarians are not offering me much to choose from.
If Amash had 1) stayed in the race, and 2) not gone off the rails with his extended anti-Trump diatribe, he would have been an easy choice. Now it's hard for me to muster at least as much enthusiasm as I had for Gary Johnson after Aleppo about any of these candidates.
Of the candidates I saw, I think my preferred ticket would be two out of the three of Jorgensen, Monds, and Hornberger, but boy that was not an exciting bunch.
I think Amash was trying to appeal to never-Trump conservatives and build some kind of base there. But the never-Trumpers are neocons, at the other end of the scale from libertarians, and Trump is too libertarian for them, so they told him no thanks, and he had pretty much chopped the heads off any other support group.
While I'm talking about motives, my thoughts on Aleppo are that Johnson started out as the fair haired boy of the MSM because they thought he would take votes away from Trump. So his early interviews were softball tosses with a few jokes about weed. Then polls started showing that he would take away more Hillary voters, so all of a sudden the MSM decided to go gotcha. If you know how these interviews work, the producers have a pre-show brief with the interviewee and his handlers and they go over what will be covered and rule out any no-go areas. It's why Hillary or Obama never got hard questions about some things. So they go through the brief, Johnson is focused on what they discussed in the brief, and they drop Aleppo out of left field. And gotcha! If you can find it, the whole tone of that interview was totally different from the earlier interviews that he got when he was the MSM's secret weapon to ensure Hillary won.