Note:  Please forgive the small amounts of posts but yesterday and today are my doctors and their tests and probes and tickles…….I should be back to form on Monday.

This election as with most in recent history there will be a Libertarian vying for the presidency, Gary Johnson…..normally I am not a fan of the Libertarian economic policies however I do find some of their stands in foreign policy interesting and even some that I could support….like their ideas on interventionism.

Their ideas on war or armed conflicts if war is too strong of a word for you….go back about 60 years to 1956 (and here is that historical perspective that has been missing for a couple of posts)…….

The year was 1956: the icy winds of the cold war were blowing across the political landscape. And it was a presidential election year, pitting the internationalist Republican Dwight Eisenhower against Adlai Stevenson, the darling of the Democratic party’s left wing. The “isolationist” faction of the GOP, led by Sen. Robert A. Taft, had been finally defeated by what Phyllis Schlafly later called the Republican “kingmakers” of the Eastern Establishment. And the looming menace of the cold war turning hot was everywhere in the headlines. While Eisenhower was rallying the nation against the alleged Communist “threat,” Stevenson was calling for a nuclear test ban, negotiations with the Soviet Union, and an end to the military draft.

There was no organized libertarian movement at the time, although the people and institutions that would later emerge as the leadership were beginning to coalesce. Prominent among them was Murray Rothbard, then a thirty year old economist and consultant for the Volker Fund, who was also the Washington correspondent for the quasi-libertarian Faith and Freedom magazine. While most if not all conservatives and libertarians favored Eisenhower, Rothbard shocked his readers with a ringing endorsement of the liberal Democrat Stevenson.

Source: Libertarianism and War – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com

Foreign policy should be foremost on the voters mind……but instead we have platitudes and campaigns about NOTHING…..I mean these campaigns this time around are more boring than the Seinfeld Show…..

There is still time for the voter to come to grips with the absolute worthlessness of the two major candidates and find an alternative that could lead this country……but will they?

But the Libertarian candidate leaves much to be desired to be considered as a viable candidate…..

Gary Johnson’s had his “Aleppo moment.” He’s had his “forgetting world leaders” moment. And now the Libertarian candidate for president has completed the foot-in-mouth trifecta with his “Are you seriously asking me for the name of North Korea’s leader?” moment. USA Today reports that that latter event happened during a Wednesday interview with the New York Times, in which Johnson was asked if he knew the name of that particular person who happens to run Pyongyang and its environs. “I do,” he replied, before adding, “You want me to name [that person]. … Really.”

Yes, Gary, really—which is why you were asked. But he didn’t ever give the Times that name. (It’s Kim Jong Un, by the way), and the Times speculates he was “conspicuously [seeking] to avoid another misstep” with his non-answer, noting that he spoke “dryly” when he asked if the reporter was serious. Jezebel has the most reasonable speculation on why Johnson may have demurred from speaking the Supreme Leader’s name: He perhaps confused him with Voldemort. (Still, Gary Johnson says don’t forget about Gary Johnson on Election Day.)

Time to get serious and find a candidate that is not an idiot or uninformed……