Speaking of Gary Johnson, he took a lot of flak for his
Aleppo moment a few days ago.
It’s not hard to see why, but some people have said, well that’s it for Johnson, no one’s going to elect a guy who blanks on a question like that.
Personally, I don’t think it will hurt him that much, for a few reasons:
1. George W Bush
couldn’t name three out of four foreign leaders he would be dealing with when he ran for POTUS the first time. He went on to serve two terms.
2. D. Trump
knows less than Bush, or at least what he knows comes from an alternate universe. He won a major party nomination and he’s only a few points behind Hillary Clinton at the moment.
3. Johnson’s chances weren’t that great to begin with, although I understand he’s the first third-party candidate since Ross Perot to
make the ballot in all 50 states. And one good thing about Aleppo is that a lot more people now know who Gary Johnson is. Any publicity is good publicity, they say.
But yeah, I don’t think it’s going to cost him an election he has a very slim chance of winning anyway. And most of his support is coming from people who hate Hillary and Donald so much that I doubt they care if he blanks on the occasional question. If there's one thing I've learned from past elections, it's that anything
your candidate does or says is excusable, explainable or overblown by the biased media.
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