Waco – Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary
Johnson spoke to a crowd of about 40 people in a hot parking lot
near the beginning of the Heritage Square section of this midsized
Texas city.

Johnson, along with the LP candidate for US Senate in Texas John
Jay Myers, spoke without the aid of a stage or PA system, for about
15 minutes each as the sun beat down. The only reporter (other than
me) in attendance was a writer for the pay-per-click site
Examiner.com. Young people, many clad in Ron Paul shirts, made up
the bulk of the crowd.  

In his stump speech Johnson, dressed in black slacks and an
un-tucked olive green shirt, emphasized how he is different from
President Obama and Mitt Romney while mentioning that he would work
to audit and, eventually, eliminate the Federal Reserve.

Myers spent little time talking about his two opponents, Tea
Party-favored Republican Ted Cruz and former Democratic state
representative Paul Sadler. He did, though, go after Cruz’s social
conservatism.

“I am not a social conservative. I am a conservative when it
comes to spending but I am not a conservative when it comes to what
you should be able to do with your life,” he said.

Myers, taking note of the sizable Paul presence in the crowd,
said that Paul’s confrontation in with former New York Mayor Rudy
Guliani during a 2007 Republican presidential debate encouraged him
to get involved in politics.

Johnson and Myers hung around for about a half-hour after the
event ended before departing for Austin. At one point a local
college student asked Johnson to sign her copy of Ayn Rand’s
The Fountainhead. After that the former New Mexico
governor eventually found himself in a familiar place: defending
and explaining his position on the Fair Tax to a handful of college
students.

Before Johnson left another student asked what he would do if he
lost. Without missing a beat Johnson said that he would run again
in 2016.