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is pimping out the possibility that ex GOP Governor and current Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson might "hurt Mitt Romney in the west".
I don't see it, Johnson lacks both money and charisma and he doesn't have an issue, or at least an issue that Mitt Romney won't clumsily co-opt if push comes to shove.
And it just doesn't seem like a big year for Third Partei insurgencies no matter how many wishful editorials are indulged by the punditariat.
Johnson is the highest profile Libertarian nominee to come along in quite some time which is  normally a party given to nominating jobbers or twitchy mystics like Ron Paul.
He might do some business if he can somehow get into one of the presidential debates this fall, but that is a tall order, I'm not sure a Libertarian has ever polled sufficient strength to warrant inclusion.
The reason for that is simple, the vast majority of the American Electorate may not like Big Government but they have even less faith in the Mystic Properties of the Sacred Free Market. Their day to day lives have too much contact with duplicitous marketing, shoddy workmanship and price gouging all courtesy the private sector, to believe otherwise.
So unless there is some "unrest in the far west" that I am not privy to, Gary Johnson is headed to the bottom of the bill with the dog acts and the Living Mermaid Routine.