‘Jill Stein is the best candidate among all running for president’

The Green Party’s Jill Stein is the best candidate among all who are running for the US president, American political analyst says, because “she sees a role for government being a servant of the people.”

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson said on Friday he could become president if he can break the 15 percent threshold in national polling in a month and get on stage to debate with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. 

“If we’re in that presidential debate, I think, anything is possible. And given the momentum that we have, I think it’s possible that I will be the next president,” said Johnson, the former Republican New Mexico governor.

Myles Hoenig told Press TV on Saturday: “This would be true of Jill Stein of the Green Party as well. What is missing in the public discussion are different points of views, and views that counter the standard Democratic and Republican narratives. As Stein says, the people have a right to know who they can vote for. Right now, the media is dead-set against promoting these two 3rd parties.”

“If Johnson were to achieve greater public exposure, it would not necessarily mean he could win. He would be competing against the Republican Party establishment, even if they don’t want Trump, and Clinton, who’s running on the Democratic Party ticket but whose positions are Republican and getting a lot of support from the Republican establishment,” he stated.

“Johnson’s views, as a Libertarian, would be in competition with these other two. He’s for less government, a Republican standard position, but takes a government hands off approach to issues like gay marriage, drug use, abortion, etc. These positions might be appealing to the ‘Bernie’ people and others, but as he explains his economic positions, he would clearly lose many of them. Johnson pretty much calls for a governmental hands off approach to all problems: environment, labor rights, trade, health, etc. For the Libertarians, it is the court system to deal with these problems, but very few would ever be able to take the Monsanto’s of the world to court for exposing our food source to toxic elements or oil companies for destroying water supplies due to fracking,” he stated.

“Jill Stein would be the best served being in the debate. At the moment she too would need 15% but with public pressure, there is an outside chance the Debate Commission might be forced to relent, or it may backfire on both Clinton and Trump,” noted Hoenig, a Green Party candidate for Congress.

“Stein’s position is far different than the other three. She sees a role for government being a servant of the people and an advocate. She’s for the end of our military budget that is designed to maintain an empire (something Johnson agrees with), a Single Payer health care system, and she wants government to create a New Green Deal, to end rampant unemployment and our addiction to fossil fuel,” he said. 

“Johnson and Stein need to be in the debates for their positions to be publicized to all voters. Both of them would benefit, but Johnson is least likely to win as he would be competing with two other Republican-minded candidates,” Hoenig concluded.

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