{"id":17045,"date":"2016-09-13T06:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T06:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17045"},"modified":"2016-09-13T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T06:04:21","slug":"there-goes-gov-johnsons-chance-at-election-probably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17045","title":{"rendered":"There goes Gov. Johnson&#8217;s chance at election &#8230; probably"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/johnson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17047\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/johnson-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"johnson\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/johnson-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/johnson-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/johnson-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/johnson.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary Johnson asked a question when someone posed one to him.<\/p>\n<p>The question had to do with the largest city in Syria and the plight of those thousands of refugees fleeing Aleppo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is Aleppo?&#8221; Johnson asked.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. That&#8217;s what the former New Mexico governor and Libertarian presidential candidate asked.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s embarrassed by it. More to the point, the non-answer and what ought to be perceived as a &#8220;stupid question&#8221; is now being seen as the doomsday death knell for Johnson&#8217;s presidential candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to imagine the fallout that would have occurred if, say, Democrat Hillary Clinton had said such a thing. Or, if Republican Donald J. Trump had said it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/08\/if_aleppo_gaffe_sinks_johnson_will_trump_or_clinton_gain.html\">http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/08\/if_aleppo_gaffe_sinks_johnson_will_trump_or_clinton_gain.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clinton would be excoriated by those on the right and shunned by those on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Trump? I feel reasonably certain he would\u00a0have been <em>praised<\/em> by the righties. Lefties, I&#8217;m sorry to presume, just might have thrown up their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Gov. Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>There were many of us out here in the peanut gallery who wanted his candidacy to get some traction. It looks as though &#8212; at this moment &#8212; he has just taken a dive.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Johnson asked a question when someone posed one to him. The question had to do with the largest city in Syria and the plight of those thousands of refugees fleeing Aleppo. &#8220;What is Aleppo?&#8221; Johnson asked. Seriously. That&#8217;s what the former New Mexico governor and Libertarian presidential candidate asked. He&#8217;s embarrassed by it. More &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17045\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There goes Gov. Johnson&#8217;s chance at election &#8230; probably<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[6504,1424,6243,2139,5612],"class_list":["post-17045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-aleppo","tag-donald-trump","tag-gary-johnson","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-syrian-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17048,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045\/revisions\/17048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}