Libertarian Party Chairman Candidate Strips To His Underwear On Stage
By Tyler Durden
While badly needing an alternative to the fake left-right division plaguing US society, Americans will not get a much needed, credible libertarian “third choice” for at least another year. Here’s why.
Earlier today, the Libertarian Party nominated former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld as its presidential ticket Sunday, as the party attempts to elevate itself into the mainstream during an election that’s given the small party unprecedented opportunity. Unfortunately, “taking itself into the mainstream” was just not meant to be for a party that earlier today saw a candidate for chairman strip to his underwear and give the entire convention a striptease.
The pair, both two-term governors, have more executive experience than any other candidate in the race, and they will offer an alternative to two historically unpopular candidates, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
“This is the best message team going forward,” Johnson, the Libertarians’ presidential nominee, told reporters after Weld won the vice presidential nomination.
And, as NBC reports, it all came to be in a contested convention. After endless speculation that the Republican Party’s divided primary might end in a contested convention in Cleveland and continued theories that the Democrats’ primary could end in Philadelphia with a floor battle between party insiders, 2016 finally had a contested convention, in Orlando.
Johnson won on the second ballot after falling short of a majority by just a few votes — getting 49.5 percent — on the first. However, unlike the democratic or republican races, there were no superdelegates who will make all the difference.
Unfortunately, it is here that things took a turn for the bizarre. The tense hour between ballots left candidates scheming and delegates making floor deals and chanting for and against candidates. It was the kind of drama political reporters had previously only dreamed about.
While Johnson locked down enough votes on the second ballot, the drama was far from finished Sunday. Libertarians also allow their party to choose the vice presidential nominee, and Johnson’s chosen running mate — Weld — is not a party favorite, as many question whether he’s really a Libertarian. It didn’t help that he endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich for the Republican presidential nomination earlier in the primary cycle.
Weld fells a couple of dozen votes short on the first ballot, but he won on the second — by just a few votes — and the crowd erupted in boos and cheers.
And then, the Libertarians showed that when it comes to stealing the stage and making a total farce, Trump is at best an amateur, when a candidate for the chairmanship of the Party decided to unleash in a stripteaser on the stage.
As The Hill reports, the man took the stage and defended his chosen candidate for the party’s vice presidential nomination, Derrick Grayson, as the results of the second ballot were tabulated, according to reporters on the scene. During that time candidates for chairman of the party were …read more
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