I'm not talking trash. The title of this post was the subject of an email that the Johnson for President campaign sent out last night — a line that has become something of a theme for the Libertarian presidential candidate.
Last week in Chicago, at a debate featuring Johnson and three other third-party candidates — including the Green Party's Jill Stein, whom CL interviewed over the weekend and will soon post the story — Johnson used the phrase in his closing remarks.
"Wasting your vote is voting for somebody that you don't believe in. That's wasting your vote. I'm asking everybody here, I'm asking everybody watching this nationwide, to waste your vote on me," he said.
Last week, Johnson began airing a campaign ad in select markets, touting his anti-war credentials:
This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2012.