The Libertarian party is having a big year. Its presidential ticket is composed of two former Republican governors with reasonably good records and a great deal more relevant executive experience between the two of them than the Democratic and Republican nominees combined. “For once,” the Libertarians joke, “we aren’t the crazy ones.”
In a three-way race against Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico, broke the 10 percent mark in two August polls — far ahead of where he was last time around, far ahead of where Ralph Nader was in 2000 and even Ross Perot in 1996, though well behind Perot’s 20 percent standing in the summer of 1992, without which all that probably would have been heard of Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016 would have been: “Who?” That the Clintons might end up owing two presidencies to megalomaniac billionaire dilettantes is a remarkable thing.
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