THOMASVILLE —
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson is concerned that the endless buzz of negative campaign advertising is drowning out debate over serious issues.
“I saw a statistic recently that President Obama ran about 82,00 negative ads against (Mitt) Romney, and I am sure Romney did likewise over the last month,” Johnson said during a recent telephone interview with the Times-Enterprise.
Johnson hopes to find an opening with voters who are disgusted that the two-major parties spend time focusing on each other instead of the issues confronting American families. He believes his positions will appeal to Democrats and Republicans.
“I have big differences between the two parties,” Johnson said. “It’s Iran, Afghanistan, marriage equality, the drug war, the Patriot Act, the National Defense Authorization Act, balancing the budget and implementing the Fair Tax. There are a lot of issues-based differences, and not ‘he said, she said’ or ‘tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum.”
Johnson, a former Republican governor of New Mexico, has shunned negative ads.
“I ran for governor twice and never mentioned my opponent in print, radio or television during those two elections,” he said. “I just think people are hungry to vote for somebody over the lesser of two evils.
“One thing I hear all the time is, ‘A vote for Libertarian is wasting your vote?’ I say, ‘Isn’t wasting your vote voting for somebody that you don’t believe in?’ If you are going to make the judgment that the lesser of two evils is a good vote, I am going to argue that you should vote your conscience.
“That is how you change things.”
See Wednesday's edition for more details.
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