{"id":12956,"date":"2016-06-23T12:09:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=12956"},"modified":"2016-06-23T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:09:50","slug":"the-third-option-for-president-libertarian-gary-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/the-third-option-for-president-libertarian-gary-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"The third option for President: Libertarian Gary Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ktth.com\/2016\/06\/20\/the-third-option-for-president-libertarian-gary-johnson\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GaryJohnson1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If he gets to 15 percent in the polls,you\u2019ll be seeing a third face on the presidential debate stage. Former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson joined Armstrong and Getty on KTTH Monday morning to discuss why a Libertarian should be considered for president.<\/p>\n<p>While in the middle of perhaps the most polarizing presidential race ever, Johnson is trying to provide an outlet for those in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a unique position being fiscally conservative \u2026 and when it comes to our lives, our personal liberties and freedoms, shouldn\u2019t we always come down on the side of choice? \u2026 as long as those choices don\u2019t put others in harm\u2019s way?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Getty contends that it is time America open up to the idea of a different party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolls would show there is pretty fertile ground for being socially liberal and fiscally conservative, so why haven\u2019t libertarian candidates done better?,\u201d Getty asked. \u201cYou have decades and decades of media telling you that you\u2019re an idiot if you don\u2019t assume that it\u2019s the Rs or the Ds, the Rs or the Ds. Always, always, always. It is time to shake that up, in our opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson goes on to explain his opinions on taxes, immigration, gun control, and the war overseas. He does so while remaining in that middle ground between the left and the right.<\/p>\n<p>For the many voters out there looking for someone other than the Democrat or the Republican, Johnson could be that man.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/ktth.com\/2016\/06\/20\/the-third-option-for-president-libertarian-gary-johnson\/\">The third option for President: Libertarian Gary Johnson &#8211; KTTH<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he gets to 15 percent in the polls,you\u2019ll be seeing a third face on the presidential debate stage. Former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson joined Armstrong and Getty on KTTH Monday morning to discuss why a Libertarian should be considered for president. While in the middle of perhaps the most polarizing presidential race ever, Johnson is trying to provide an outlet for those in the middle. \u201cIt\u2019s a unique position being fiscally conservative \u2026 and when it comes to our lives, our personal liberties and freedoms, shouldn\u2019t we always come down on the side of choice? \u2026 as long as those choices don\u2019t put others in harm\u2019s way?\u201d Joe Getty contends that it is time America open up to the idea of a different party. \u201cPolls would show there is pretty fertile ground for being socially liberal and fiscally conservative, so why haven\u2019t libertarian candidates done better?,\u201d Getty asked. \u201cYou have decades and decades of media telling you that you\u2019re an idiot if you don\u2019t assume that it\u2019s the Rs or the Ds, the Rs or the Ds. Always, always, always. It is time to shake that up, in our opinion.\u201d Johnson goes on to explain his opinions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-12956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-gary-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}