2020 Libertarian Party primary: everyone runs
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AltWorlder
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« on: April 08, 2020, 02:58:28 PM »

This year's primary is fairly entertaining, but I feel like it had greater potential. What if these candidates had either ran, or ran earlier in the race and then not dropped out after a minute:

  • Lincoln Chaffee
  • Justin Amash
  • Mark Sanford
  • Bill Weld?
  • Sam Seder
  • Celebrity option: Drew Carey / Penn Jillette / John Stossel / or someone more relevant

I opted not to include former LP presidential nominees, or Rocky De La Fuente.

I probably should have made this into a poll, but I wanted to spark some discussion first to see what candidates I'm missing
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2020, 07:06:50 PM »

Since this has exceeded 20 views with no response, I'll just do a takedown on the idea myself:

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Lincoln Chaffee

Would be entertaining to have him at the debates, but probably not able to withstand the challenges from the more doctrinaire libertarian zealots. A little like Mike Gravel in '08.

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Mark Sanford
Bill Weld?

They trip over themselves in Chaffee's shadow, as fellow ex-duopoly carpetbaggers.

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Justin Amash

Now that's a big party turncoat that the LP would actually welcome. Young and principled-seeming, savvy communicator, tussled with Trump- he'd be the one to beat.

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Sam Seder

He would be in it to troll and to attack libertarianism, so they'd probably find some excuse to bar him. For shame!

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Celebrity option: Drew Carey / Penn Jillette / John Stossel / or someone more relevant

All late-90s/early-00s characters, irrelevant. Need a YouTube streamer type or at least Matt Stone/Trey Parker as a joint candidate to stay current.
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