A principled option for U.S. president: Endorsing Gary Johnson, Libertarian

[brooklynite]

Chicago Tribune

As Nov. 8 looms, a dismayed, disconsolate America waits and wonders: What is it about 2016?

How has our country fallen so inescapably into political and policy gridlock? How did pandering to aggrieved niche groups and seducing blocs of angry voters replace working toward solutions as the coin of our governing class? How could the Democratic and Republican parties stagger so far from this nation's political mainstream?

And the most pressing question: What should tens of millions of voters who yearn for answers do with two major-party candidates they disdain? Polls show an unprecedented number of people saying they wish they had another choice.

This is the moment to look at the candidates on this year's ballot. This is the moment to see this election as not so much about them as about the American people and where their country is heading. And this is the moment to rebuke the Republican and Democratic parties.

The Tribune has traditionally endorsed Republicans in the past, although in 2008 and in 2012 it endorsed Chicago's own Barack Obama. In May, the Chicago paper endorsed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the Republican primary, and declined to endorse either Democratic candidate. In March, it wrote that it would not endorse Trump under any circumstances.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/09/chicago-tribune-endorses-gary-johnson-228951

[roscoeroscoe]

1. Please

Vote Hillary!

[guillaumeb]

2. Endorse a political philosophy thatmakes sense only in college dorms,

a philosophy that cannot be shown to have worked anywhere,
and endorse a candidate as ill-informed as Donald Trump?

The Tribune is a far right newspaper with less and less connection to reality.

[emulatorloo]

3. Fuck that noise.

[stopbush]

4. Principled? Principled would have taken into account Johnson's

stupidity, as displayed in his most-recent gaffes.

Just another RW editorial board stamping its feet because the R candidate they'd like to endorse is an asshole.