It’s about time to mention Gary Johnson, the former Republican Governor of New Mexico and Libertarian Candidate for President in New York and almost all of the other states of the Union

Johnson and the lesser known Constitution Party’s Virgil Goode might have a significant impact in several key battle-ground states

Yesterday, there was an AP piece that appeared in the NY Daily News, “Third party candidates may have outsized impact in tight race — Third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Virgil Goode are just blips in the presidential race, but even blips can be a big deal.”
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That article did a cursory and superficial “analysis” of how the vote in several key states might be effected by the candidacies of Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Constitution Party’s Virgil Goode.

Inasmuch as New York is not a state that is “in contention” in the race of the major parties’ candidates Obama and Romney, principled Republicans and Conservatives, as well as other fiscally conservative or libertarian-minded voters, are free to fairly consider casting their vote for one of the principled “Third-Party”candidates on the ballot. Such a vote could then be based on sound governmental philosophy and policies and not mindless partisan loyalty.

One of the reasons that New York State is not considered to be competitive is due to the parlous condition of the Republican and Conservative Parties, and their fading coalition in New York State. As a result, voters who cast principled votes for candidates not running on the Republican or Conservative lines could be doing “double duty” by participating in an effective protest against the current cadaverous cabal of the Conservative and Republican Parties in New York.