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[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]I posted this a month later in 2015.  I backed Gary Johnson, a Libertarian, and I eventually voted for him in November of 2016. Trump at the time was an outsider and turned out to be a total loser and fraud, but people had hope at the beginning.  The Establishment was full of a lot of bullshit, and nobody wanted another Bush or Clinton  That was for sure ...[/font][/color][/size]
[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]– Homer Cocktail[/font][/color][/size]
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[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]7/12/2015[/font][/color][/size]
[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]I'm  registed Libertarian.  I have a big problem with both parties and haven't voted for a Democrat or Republican presidential candidate in the past few elections.  One of the problems I have with Republicans is that the upper echelon use people like tools, minorities included.  In 2000, Bush and Cheney campaigned on...[/font][/color][/size]
[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]• Inclusion[/font][/color][/size]
[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]• Being strict Constitutionalists[/font][/color][/size]
[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]•  Being Washington outsiders[/font][/color][/size]

[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]Their inclusion is a joke.  Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice are given lofty positions and paraded around for photo ops to mask what many really believe is white supremacy.  My issue has nothing to do with race.  It has to do with lying and deception.  I worked for a couple of staunch Republicans and I used to believe in the supposed ideals they talked about.  I've passed calculus, I got great work reviews, and these people are jerks.  There's something about the way things are talked about and the way they're practiced.  These people are human, and too many of them have severe faults.  The Republicans realized that Mitt Romney might have won in 2012 if he won a bigger slice of the Hispanic vote.  I live in California and know many conservative Hispanics.  There are business owners, church-going people, veterans and military wonks.  They don't like being toyed with.  Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are in the race to make sure Hispanics feel included.  I would be surprised if either one became president.  Carly Fiorina was fired by the company she worked for and, if she was a man, she would be nowhere near a GOP debate stage.  Once again, the Republicans are trying to make sure women in the electorate don't feel left out.  And Ben Carson?  A heart surgeon with no political office experience?[/font][/color][/size]

[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]The issue here is that Americans get toyed with like three-year-old children.  The mass media has picked Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton as your two choices.  I'm pretty sure of it.  My mom used to pick out my clothes when I started kindergarten.  No big deal.  The MSM is doing the equivalent of picking out clothes for an eleventh grader.[/font][/color][/size]

[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]I'm sick of the dichotomies, too.  Coke or Pepsi.  Ford or Chevy.  Democrat or Republican.  I'm happy that Trump is in the race ruffling feathers.  I'm a white person like the seventy percent you mentioned but that doesn't mean I have to like the system of using people like rags.[/font][/color][/size]

[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]I'd like to be proven wrong but that can only happen during the course of the next few months.  My dream election is Trump versus Sanders versus Johnson.  Who's Johnson?  Gary Johnson is the Libertarian candidate, former governor of New Mexico.  If the nightmare happens and it's Bush versus Clinton, I hope Donald Trump opts out and runs as an independent.  We should not have less options for president than types of bottled water at a grocery store.  This is not democracy.  I think it would be neat if Jesse Ventura was allowed into the debates.  What's the worst that could happen?  Ralph Nader called our system a "duopoly". The two major parties make the rules for the debates... and they receive our tax dollars.  About a third of Americans, even if registered with a major party, identifies as independent.  How can these people shut a third of us out of the process?  Ralph Nader was cut out of a Gore/ Bush debate in 2000.  Who cares, right?  Well, he was given a ticket to attend the debate by a student at the university where it was held.  They wouldn't let him in the building as a spectator!  What kind of crap system has evolved here???[/font][/color][/size]

[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]CAMPAIGN 2000[/font][/color][/size]
[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]Bush, Cheney Kick Off Their Convention Tour in Arkansas[/font][/color][/size]
[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]July 29, 2000[/font][/color][/size]
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[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]Scott McClellan, a spokesman for Bush and Cheney, said Gore was "trying to do everything he can to divert attention away from the fact that this administration has failed to adopt a national energy policy."[/font][/color][/size]
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[color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]As Gore vacations with his family in North Carolina, the Republican tour will decant the themes that the Philadelphia convention is supposed to showcase: education, a strong defense, compassion, [b]inclusion.[/b][/font][/color][/size]
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[size=large][color=#000000][font=UICTFontTextStyleBody]http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/29/news/mn-61097[/font][/color][/size]

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