Libertarian Party chairman STRIPS at Convention, Johnson wins nomination

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Sorry, 2-in-1 headline: 

 

Something you’ll never see at a Democrat or Republican convention: A candidate for Libertarian Party chair on Sunday danced and stripped down to his thong before leaving the stage amid a chorus of boos.

The large, bearded man announced immediately after his striptease, which was performed to music, that he would drop out of the race, adding, “I’m sorry, that was a dare.”

 

Orlando, Florida (CNN)Libertarians on Sunday selected a presidential ticket headed by former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who lit into presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on immigration and a range of other issues.

At the party convention in Orlando, Florida, Johnson got his preferred running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, in a weekend gathering that drew sharp contrasts with the major party candidates -- Trump and Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee.

Johnson described the real estate mogul's immigration policies as "just racist," particularly the Republican's call to deport 11 million undocumented people currently in the country.

Libertarian activists contend their ticket could play a pivotal role in the 2016 campaign, with Trump and Clinton both viewed unfavorably by large swaths of the electorate. Even grabbing a small percentage of the vote in key states could affect the Electoral College calculus.

Trump was a frequent target of criticism of many Libertarians at the weekend convention. In addition to immigration participants particularly took issue with Trump's stated positions on international trade and national security -- all of which stand in firm opposition to a party that tends to favor lax immigration restrictions, free trade and is skeptical of military intervention. Austin Petersen, one of the presidential candidates who lost to Johnson, called Trump a fascist, a term regularly echoed throughout the convention.

At one point on Sunday, an announcer told the convention that Trump had begun attacking Johnson and Weld. The audience roared in approval at the news. It was not immediately apparent what attacks the announcer was referring to, but in a statement to the New York Times about Weld, Trump said, "I don't talk about his alcoholism."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/29/politics/libertarian-party-nominee-vote/

[Batwings 12,957]

Freedom from taxes and his clothes. 

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 He looks very very similar to one of my professors.

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Libertarian and Green % of votes are going to skyrocket this election

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

He has a very Aphrodite-like figure  

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Gary Johnson is a family friend of mine, so of course I'm glad to see him successful. Not so sure about the stripping or the heckling of his support of the civil rights act though.

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

inb4 Bernie does this to protest the establishment in July 

 

 

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Can't wait to see daddy Bernie strip when he inevitably loses the nomination  

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^^ Lmao omg