Democracy Now Asks Third Party Candidates Questions From Last Night's Debate

As they did with the first debate, Democracy Now has published the debate questions answered by third party candidates. Jill Stein (Green), Virgil Goode (Constitution), and Rocky Anderson (Justice) were present. There's a (long) video with the answers spliced in, and (thankfully) a transcript of all their answers. Gary Johnson was not present, but you can catch him debating Jill Stein Thursday October 18th at 7 p.m. EDT.

Comments

Re:Gary Johnson = Libertarian candidate

[ShanghaiBill]

I thought the Libertarian candidate was Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney is a conservative. Conservatism has three pillars:
1. Economic conservatism (low taxes and free markets)
2. Social conservatism (public religion, opposition to abortion)
3. National defense conservatism (high defense spending)
Libertarians only agree with Mitt on #1.

Re:And why weren't the Whigs represented?!?

[mcgrew]

Will no gentleman stand forward to represent the people on the slavery issue?!?

Gentlemen? Jill Stein is no gentleman, she was arrested last night for trespassing at the debate.

She's getting my vote, and I didn't even RTFA. Obama will win in a landslide here in Illinois, so a vote for either him or Romney is wasted here. Rather than wasting my vote, I intend to vote for a candidate who doesn't want to put my friends and family in prison for pot. I choose her over the Libertarian, because the Libertarians stupidly think you can have a clean environment without environmental regulations, and I'm old enough to know what it was like before the EPA (So does Ron Paul, which makes me think he's either an idiot or in bed with the polluters).

As to the slavery issue... which one?

Stupid questions

[Hatta]

I watched this debate, and none of the questions were even worth answering. Not one question was asked about civil liberties. Not one question about the TSA, or drug policy, or drone strikes. Not one mention of science. Not one question addressed the regulatory capture of just about every government agency. Not one question about Obama's failure to prosecute any banking execs for fraud after the 2008 financial crisis. Absolutely no worthwhile questions were asked, and no worthwhile answers were given.

Re:the problem with 3rd party presidental candidat

[Nadaka]

The greens are starting at the bottom. There have been 136 green party members elected to local office, 3 elected to state offices (all no longer serving), and 0 elected to federal offices.

Participation in the presidential election builds name recognition and motivation for the party, improving their chances at lower offices even if the presidency is hopeless.

Re:Gary Johnson = Libertarian candidate

[Hatta]

You could say the same about Obama and the left wing of the Democratic party. Failing to implement a single progressive policy hasn't seemed to hurt his support.