. . . This time around anyway
Gary Bauer at Campaign for Working families wrote this yesterday (see italics) our and other annotations are interspersed in red:
Two major media polls measuring the state of the 2016 presidential contest were released over the past 24 hours. Both show a very tight race: In one poll, Donald Trump leads by two points, while Hillary Clinton leads by three points in the other poll.
Buried in the Washington Post poll was this factoid, which we have been worried about for weeks: In a three-way race, Hillary wins. The Post tested a general election match-up with Romney in the race and found that Clinton wins with just 37%, while Trump gets 35% and Romney gets 22%.
Some commentators suggest Romney’s numbers and a vigorous campaign are enough to (their hope) throw the election into the House of Representatives. That argument is analysed by Allahpundit writing at Hot Air :
” Romney could still hypothetically be president in that scenario by denying Hillary 270 electoral votes and moving the election to the House — but, er, which blue states that Hillary is supposed to win is she going to lose because Romney’s in the race? If anything, her path to 270 will be easier, not harder, thanks to the split vote on the right.”
So 57% of Americans would vote for a populist conservative and a right-of-center Republican. But the result is that Hillary Clinton would become president of the United States with just over a third of the vote.
By the way, as there has been in virtually every modern election, there will be a third party on the ballot — the Libertarian Party. Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is running to be the nominee of the Libertarian Party, and has selected former Massachusetts Governor William Weld to be his running mate.
Weld is no conservative and what makes him considered to be a Libertarian is beyond us. Consider this mini-dossier of Weld’s statist views, supplied by Robert Eno writing at Conservative Review: Note these are all things Weld supports (besides being pro-abortion). Gun Control, Eminent Domain, Affirmative Action, Environmental Regulations, Full Throated Endorsement of Barack Obama (2008). We also see that similar to leading Libertarian candidates Gary Johnson and Austin Petersen he compares Donald Trump’s immigration policy to Kristallnacht.
Bauer adds this vignette:
If you are a Christian conservative uncomfortable with Trump on character issues and considering Johnson, maybe this little vignette will interest you.
Last year, I was in New York City at the Fox News studios waiting to appear on John Stossel’s show. Gary Johnson was also waiting in the green room and talking about same-sex marriage with another libertarian.
At one point in their conversation they cited a critic of same-sex marriage who raised the slippery slope argument and rhetorically asked how society could deny a father the right to marry his adult daughter. Johnson replied that he would not deny him that right. “They’re adults. What business is that of mine?” he replied.
More reading about the Libertarian Party candidates for their party’s presidential nomination discloses real problems for conservatives:
J Wilson at A Libertarian Future:
Unfortunately, Austin Petersen Crashed And Burned On Steve Deace’s Radio Show
Katrina Haffner at The Odyssey Online: Why I’m Fed Up With The Current State Of Libertarian Activism
Michelle Catlin at Pericles Press: 10 Reasons Why I Do Not Support Austin Petersen (And neither should you)
Nora Kelly at The Atlantic: Is This the Libertarian Party’s Moment?
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