Posted on 10/26/2009 6:23:11 PM PDT by GoldStandard
Gary Johnson is preparing to launch his Our America PAC shortly, as soon as he gets all of his legal ducks in a row. He will be hitting the trail hard soon, traveling the country to speak in support of issues and candidates, re-immersing himself in the public policy debate.
This December, Governor Johnson will also be releasing a book entitled “Seven Principles Of Good Government,” published by The Heartland Institute (a conservative-libertarian think tank).
>> The race for GOP nominee and POTUS will come down to ability to get the $. <<
I’m not so sure that’s true this time out. Even last time, Romney outraised McCain. This time, I think conservatives will be all the more suspicious of the big money candidate. I think McCain benefitted from Thompson running blocker for him, pretending he was going to campaign as a conservative. This time it’ll be about splitting coalitions.
>> If it is still around 10% with U-6t at 17% Obama loses in a route to my dead grandmother. <<
Really? Cool. Most dead vote Democrat.
A lot of dancing around there. I didn’t ask about abortion doctors. I asked about a woman who intentionally murders (your word) her child by having an abortion. If a woman pays someone to kill her child, she is just as guilty as the person who does the actual killing? Do you think that the SAME standard (EITHER the death penalty of life imprisonemnet) should apply to the woman who has a doctor perform an abortion?
As for Obama. If the economy continues in it's present condition. You might be able to beet him. My dead Grandma would win hands down, as it would be hard ‘To dig up any dirt on her”
Already answered at length.
No, just plain old Liberal.
This is the era of Chicago politics and since the dead have the right to vote, why shouldn't they also be able to hold office?
LBJ was eligible to run in 1968. He withdrew from the race, making him eligible for a further campaign.
Johnson is personally pro-choice, but he believes that the federal government has no business dealing with the abortion issue. He is a 10th amendment States Rights guy, and would seek to REPEAL ROE V WADE. Johnson has said, “Abortion is best left to the States in making such decisions.” Even on the State level, however, Johnson as Governor of the State of New Mexico was endorsed by the Right To Life Committee for his working in passing parental consent and informed consent laws, banning partial birth abortion, and ending Medicaid funding for abortion.
As for drug legalization, Johnson only supports outright legalization of marijuana, and supports harm reduction strategies for other drugs. Johnson doesn’t support doing drugs—in fact, since his youth, he has abstained from all drugs, including marijuana, alcohol, nicotene, and even to a certain extent caffeine. His view is merely that throwing people in jail for simply ingesting something in their own body is not helping the problem. He simply wants a more fiscally responsible, cost effective, and states rights oriented approach to the drug problem. Even Tom Tancredo has recently come to agree with Johnson on this issue.
He wasn’t a bad governor but I don’t think he will survive a run for President. He is very outspoken about legalizing marijuana and I think some other illegal drugs. I can see the media fire right up over that since he appeared on all the talk shows to promote legalizing drugs while he was our governor.
>Decriminalize which drugs?
Does it matter? I mean we had to pass a Constitutional Amendment to [federally] prohibit Alcohol; and even back then there were more dangerous and/or addictive drugs.
But nowadays it seems like the Federal government can prohibit pretty-much anything it wants w/o an amendment: drugs, prayer in school, guns that “look mean”...
>Johnson, a typical Paulbot pot head.
I’m assuming you say that because Ron Paul is against the war on drugs, correct?
I have a question for you though, if we needed a Constitutional Amendment to federally prohibit Alcohol, why do we need no amendment to federally prohibit [insert drug here]?
>Let’s talk specifics about the implications. Do you think a woman who has an abortion should get the death penalty for murder?
Even when abortion was illegal it was the doctors performing the abortion that were normally prosecuted.
you got that right
You can call him Ray, or you can call him Jay.
Exactly
Who is Gary Johnson? He’s the guy who put New Mexico in the black after two terms as Governor (the surplus was gone shortly after Bill Richardson took office). His nickname was “veto,” because the democrat-controlled legislature sent him a lot of spending bills that he didn’t approve of, so he nixed them.
You live a sheltered life in a small sparsely populated state (my County has a larger population than your state)
You can afford to live in your fantasy land with the other PaulBots.
I don't care if he reduced the size of gov't to nothing.
If he supports abortion and illegal immigration then he's dead to me.
I'm not angry, I'm practical.
You know me Jeeves. I was the most vociferous defender of Dr. Paul on FR.
With Palin, you get the 3-legged stool of Reagan conservatism. With Johnson, you get the stereotype of what libertarians are.
Johnson is unqualified to be POTUS.
If that is so, Republicans are screwed. Myth Romney? Screw all the left/east coast RINOs.
Are you Hugh Hewitt, newbie?
Well, I agree with Pot only, and no, I don’t smoke.
If government decriminalized everything and later legalized it too, they would eventually be in the business of selling it to us and poisoning our children.
Look what they did to housing.
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