Does Gary Johnson give potheads a bad name?
The only reason he doesn't seem more dumb is he hasn't had that many opportunities to be on TV to demonstrate.
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Yep, stellar displays of intelligence are pretty easy to distinguish from the people who are fucking imbeciles.
getting high isn't going to make an idiot Albert Einstein, but then neither is filling their head with a lot of arrogant, self-validating bullshit.
...ones and some not-so-smart ones. Johnson should step down. He can't name a world leader and he wants to be one. I think he should have an interest in current events, also. Weld should be rethinking his participation in this third party run.
go and round up everyone, who knows more than they do
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What is it about not smoking pot that turns people into barely sentient, pompous, full of shit assholes?
Also it'd be nice if some in our party would stop treating cannabis legalization like a giant joke, instead of the serious issue, supported now by a majority of Americans, that it is.
Seems to me, the easiest way to undercut a good chunk of Johnson's 'spoiler' appeal- esp. to Millennials, right quick, would be... well, no use in belaboring the point.
Sorry, for your loss. I miss my Dad, too. 
at which point my dangerously youthful and impertinent attitudes on things like sex scenes on HBO or that cellphones and selfies aren't, actually, destroying the fabric of the spacetime continuum, tend to get me angrily exiled from the lawn forthwith. 
Johnson is goofy, I don't even know who that other person is-- okay, Trump's doctor? Sure, fine, but shit, no one could be more mysterious than Melania's mystery speechwriter.
Whatever Meredith McIver is smoking, apparently it makes you invisible. I WANT SOME OF THAT.
But no, no one who has bothered to find out what the Libertarians are about, is going to take them or Gary Johnson seriously. But we all know that, already, that's why we're on DU. The angle I'm coming at it from is; since we (as solid progressives) all support personal freedom and ending the drug war anyway, right-- how to best undercut what appeal GJ has, particularly with millennials, when most of that is driven by support for pot legalization, which is seen as being taken only lukewarm serious at the national level by the DNC?
We have good leaders out here, Newsom, Merkley, to be sure.. and it's worth noting (as I have noted repeatedly) that in Oregon where the state Democratic party is firmly behind things like legal cannabis and our stronger-than-the-1st-Amendment free speech protections, personal end of life choice-- in short, a consistent pro-individual freedom tack combined with solid progressive communitarian values; see where I'm going with this? The (L) party up here is a JOKE.
And Democrats do consistently well in terms of performance and turnout, even in crappy off nat'l years like 2014.
I can't tell Gary Johnson what to do, but I don't see the value, political or otherwise, in making fun of or belittling people for whom cannabis legalization is actually an important issue at the polls. Insulting Millennials who are considering voting Libertarian because of that issue is probably not the best way to win them over.
....from it, including the skunk who takes her evening perambulations across it. I wish the gophers who've colonized it would take a hike though.
But I digress. 
So easy to do. When I joined DU 15 years ago I thought of myself as middle aged, so I want to know how in hell I turned 69 day before yesterday. I've never in my life felt so ambivalent about the odometer turning over, but I assure you I was in college in the 1960s.
But as a former high school classmate said recently: Any day above ground is a good day. So there you have it.
Yes, Bornstein is Trump's version of Dr Feelgood. There was a lot of discussion here when he had his interview with cameras rolling. People were divided between thinking he has some form of dementia or thinking he was stoned out of his gourd. (a phrase from my youth)
Oops, it's 3 am again. Talk to you tomorrow -- and enjoy HBO.
I stay way away from Cable "newz" so I've never actually heard him speak; but when I first saw his picture a month or so ago I think I said he looked like the bastard hybrid child of Gene Simmons and Howard Stern. Not what you would call a good look.
You have a good night, too. And happy belated Birthday! 
But just so we're clear, the "they" in my post up there referred to legalization proponents (or, in the OP's vernacular, "potheads", hurr durr) not Libertarians.
I think the problem is that he gave up smoking herb a long time ago. Smoking the herb expands your mind and makes you smarter. There is no doubt about this. Do your research, and get with the times, oldsters.
There is broad agreement that ganja is a boon for society in many ways. The Colorado experiment has been an unqualified success. You can't argue with results. This is why NINE (9!) states are voting to increase access to marijuana in November.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/states-vote-expanding-legal-access-marijuana-42410099
From California, with its counterculture heritage, to the fishing ports and mill towns of Maine, millions of Americans in nine states have a chance to vote Nov. 8 on expanding legal access to marijuana. Collectively, the ballot measures amount to the closest the U.S. has come to a national referendum on the drug.
Five states — Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada — will consider legalizing the recreational use of pot. Three others — Florida, Arkansas and North Dakota — will decide whether to permit marijuana for medical purposes. Montana will weigh whether to ease restrictions on an existing medical marijuana law.
As the most populous state, with a reputation for trend-setting, California is attracting the most attention — and money — in an intensifying debate over Proposition 64.
Silicon Valley tycoons and deep-pocketed donors with connections to the legal medical marijuana industry are among the top financial backers of a pro-pot campaign that has raised almost $17 million. Opponents have raised slightly more than $2 million, including a $1.4 million contribution from retired Pennsylvania art professor Julie Schauer.
Advocates on both sides say passage in California would likely ignite legalization movements in other states, especially when the tax dollars start adding up. California's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office estimated the state could collect up to $1 billion a year in marijuana taxes.
"As California goes, so goes the nation," said University of California, Berkeley political science professor Alan Ross.
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People can whine about the changing times all they want, nevertheless the times are a'changin'. If you're on the wrong side of history on this issue, do yourself and the country a favor and do something to expand your mind. The whole world is waking up on this. Herb is a sacrament. It deserves respect. I'd bet that it's legal nation-wide in ten years. Acting holier than thou on this subject only reveals your ignorance and your regressive attitude. 
It's about time Democrats break the habit of utilizing prohibition as social policy.
No reading of the OP implies this is a bash on "potheads". It is asking if Gary Johnson, a known pot smoker/advocate, who is a dumb as a post, gives them a bad name.
It was as much tongue in cheek as anything.
But you carry on with your feeling of outrage.
