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gary is reasoning for president as a libertarian and buddy roemer, my home state of louisiana, a formerf louisiana who ran in this year's gop primaries. he now chairs reform project.org. you're an independent now, right? >> that's correct. i changed. i was a democrat 20 years and a republican 20 years. i'm going to try independent. >> so good to see both of you. i'll start with you, first, gary. is this two-party system broken? >> yeah. i think that it's vote between twiddle dee and twiddle dum and i think people care about stopping the wars and stopping spending and i think i will be that third voice. >> when you say gary johnson, i've heard of mitt romney and president obama. obviously, i've heard of paul ryan but who is this gary johnson guy? do you feel like you are shut out of the process in any way? >> well, completely. if it were reported tomorrow that i was at 5% of the nationa vote, the reaction would be who is gary johnson? that is a great thing. just being on your show, don, thank you. if it drives everybody to gary johnson 2012.com i feel good about the results that people w

so buddy roemer, former governor of louisiana, who tried in the republican campaign and didn't really succeed so that was about the best he could do. and i think he really needed to get maybe it's 100,000 signatures to even be credible for them and then their idea was whoever won the lottery they would pick someone from the opposite party or independent so that you would bypass politics. it's nice to think that way but we tried that. jesse, the former fighter -- jesse ventura in minnesota tried that and the thing is you have no party base. it's nice in theory but it doesn't work so i think they were doomed from the beginning that they raised a lot of money than the announced they were going to give back the big donations to the big contributors but not to the little contributors and if anybody had managed to get through the process the would have to raise the money afterwards. you look at the sums of the obama and romney campaign raising and just above their little subsidiary organizations anybody else succeed in this climate. you have another organization no labels. they are not ther

because we actually still believe in capitalism, casts one vote uncommitted, one vote for governor buddy roemer, one vote for governor jon huntsman, one vote for congresswoman michele bachmann, one vote for senator rick santorum, 28 votes for our fellow texan and defender of liberty, ron paul, and 130 votes for the man that will lead our party to victory and our country to prosperity, the next president of the united states, governor mitt romney. >> texas, 130, romney. >> utah, 48 boats. >>-- 40 votes. >> on behalf of senior senator orrin hatch of the great state of utah, which posted the greatest olympics in history, because of the greatest snow on earth and the impeccable, proven leadership of the drama, and utah, which consistently has the best managed stake in the nation compound this governor ski government out of your pocket, to the great salt lake, 40 votes ously pass a 4 for utah's favorite adopted son, mitt romney. >> utah, 40, romney. >> thurmont, 17 boats -- vermont, 78 votes. >> thurmont, america's first republicm, today road runners and chairs with the gulf states that are being af

caller: i wish it could leave me with a candidate like buddy roemer from louisiana, but it does not.makes me want to go ahead and vote for reelecting barack obama. if i were an aide to mitt romney i would run out on stage and say please do not pick paul ryan. pick someone that is a moderate. that would complement mitt romney much better. i think the fact that both mitt romney and his father, for that matter, were both moderate republicans, that is something the republican party needs. host: a comment on facebook from otis. ryan would surely be a better debater than romney. you can join the conversation by the to foresees the end of the facebook page. gibraltar, michigan. elaine. caller: the calls are very interesting this morning. paul ryan works for corporations. the republicans are hiding their agenda of moving this country towards a plutocracy where corporations make the laws, and i'm amazed the republicans with a man who called in earlier note from new jersey, he has been pulled into a tax debate where corporations, not taxes, are taking most of the money out of his pocket. we ar