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Gary Johnson announces presidential run
CBS News ^ | 4/21/2011 | Stephanie Condon

Posted on 04/21/2011 11:30:46 AM PDT by logician2u

Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson announced today that he's running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

"I'm ready for a different America," Johnson said in a statement today. "I'm ready for the day when a person can build a good life on a decent income, and we can take our government at its word."

Johnson announced his candidacy Thursday morning on the steps of the New Hampshire State House and plans to spend three days in the early-nominating state meeting with supporters and visiting local businesses.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; bongbrigade; donquixote; garyjohnson; johnson; johnson2012; libertarian
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To: NonValueAdded

Get off the dope, man.


101 posted on 04/21/2011 1:05:51 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: AbeLincoln

I agree on Palin. I love her but don’t think she has a chance. As for Bachmann, I really like her, but she just got owned by Stephonopolus. As for abortion in rape situations, I think that should be allowed. Why should a woman be forced to carry some degenerate’s seed? It would be more punishment heaped upon the woman and family involved. Secondly, degenerates usually produce more degenerates.


102 posted on 04/21/2011 1:07:10 PM PDT by MrInvisible
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To: EternalVigilance
See my post #99.

Learn.

Grow.

Or continue down the zealot road you are on.

What is so hard about this concept?

103 posted on 04/21/2011 1:08:08 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: logician2u

So how long before Johnson quits the GOP after getting little support and runs as a Libertarian, à la Ron Paul and Bob Barr?

So far, the only acceptable choices (i.e., both true conservatives and able to get 270 electoral votes) are Tim Pawlenty and Herman Cain.


104 posted on 04/21/2011 1:09:28 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: MrInvisible

It’s utterly barbaric to kill a person for the crime of her father.


105 posted on 04/21/2011 1:09:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Sadly, the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

Well, let’s see. You say you oppose abortion. But you support pro-baby-lilling candidates for public office.

Which should I believe, the words or the action?


106 posted on 04/21/2011 1:12:07 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Sadly, the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

I will never vote for a pro-abortion candidate.

Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green, Red, or Purple, if you don’t understand that it is NEVER justified to intentionally intentionally kill an innocent human being, whatever that person’s age or stage in life, then while we may appear to agree on certain issues like gay marriage, the economy, etc., it’s only a facade. You have no principles at all, and will compromise on anything if the “need” arises.

There are some absolutes in life, and not killing innocent babies is one of them.

We’ll never get to vote for any candidate who agrees with us 100% on all issues and would vote the way we want them to vote 100% of the time in Congress. So ultimately, we vote for someone because we believe that at some fundamental level, we share the same values.

I don’t share any fundamental values with anyone who thinks that it’s ever OK to intentionally kill an innocent child, and I certainly don’t want that person deciding when it’s time to send my son into battle.

Any apparent agreement such a person and I would have on any other issue is likely to be mere coincidence, and certainly pales in importance compared to a right as fundamental as the right to life.


107 posted on 04/21/2011 1:12:07 PM PDT by StonyMan451
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To: EternalVigilance
I'm not pro-abortion. I do think that it is indeed taking a life. But I also don't think that every person who is pro-choice is "a baby killer", and I don't think it either useful or helpful to describe them that way. They aren't the ones having an abortion, they simply don't think that they have the right to judge what a woman with an unwanted pregnancy does.

I think that it's terribly sad that any woman would either put herself or find herself in the position that she thinks that she must kill a part of herself -- her own offspring -- to survive.

108 posted on 04/21/2011 1:13:41 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Leo Farnsworth
You do drone on don't you?

Killing children means he goes to playgrounds and shoots or slices living, breathing skulls full of mush. Do you see the difference?

Of course I see the difference... The children are being murdered in different places with the exact same result.

Get a grip, let's work together and we can win this battle.

So yes, let's work together. I say no to dead babies on the playground or in an abortion "clinic" - If you agree with that I am sure we can work together in some manner.

109 posted on 04/21/2011 1:14:06 PM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: MrInvisible; DJ MacWoW; wagglebee; little jeremiah; central_va; metmom; Jim Robinson

“As for abortion in rape situations, I think that should be allowed. Why should a woman be forced to carry some degenerate’s seed? It would be more punishment heaped upon the woman and family involved. Secondly, degenerates usually produce more degenerates.”

____________________________________________

Just Damn Ping.


110 posted on 04/21/2011 1:14:09 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A Birther: One who has questions or concerns over the birth of Barry Barack Hussein Soetero Obama)
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To: EternalVigilance

Please help me understand here. A woman gets raped. You feel that she shouldn’t be able to take a pill the next day to make sure she doesn’t get pregnant?


111 posted on 04/21/2011 1:16:14 PM PDT by MrInvisible
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To: Responsibility2nd; Never on my watch; EternalVigilance; NonValueAdded; LUV W; Betis70; ohioWfan; ...

Ah heck.

I’ll make this list up myslef.

Ping me if you want to be added/deleted to The Leo Farnsworth’s Extremist List

Responsibility2nd
Never on my watch
EternalVigilance
NonValueAdded
LUV W
Betis70
ohioWfan
La Enchiladita


112 posted on 04/21/2011 1:17:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A Birther: One who has questions or concerns over the birth of Barry Barack Hussein Soetero Obama)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Well, after all, it is the baby's fault. /sarc Just damn is right.
113 posted on 04/21/2011 1:18:14 PM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

And a Blessed Easter to you and yours, Leo!


114 posted on 04/21/2011 1:19:05 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: logician2u
Libertarian \/iews...Gary Johnson...Hmmm.

Mr Johnson, what would do about ILLEGAL ALIENS, Mexico, ENERGY. I don't mind his \/iews on weed, but I want to know about TAXES, the border, ILLEGALS and JOBS!!! SOCIAL ISSUES shouldn't be an issue in 2012 -- we need to DEFEAT the Marxist Jimmy Carter. (who would'\/e thought that there would be someone WORSE then CARTER!!!!)

115 posted on 04/21/2011 1:19:47 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Wanted a keyboard with a working '\/' key!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

That’s all well and good. But what the heck is a LeoFarnsworth?


116 posted on 04/21/2011 1:20:34 PM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: Never on my watch

Damn degenerate babies. They SHOULD be aborted - the little buggers.

/obvious sarc


117 posted on 04/21/2011 1:20:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A Birther: One who has questions or concerns over the birth of Barry Barack Hussein Soetero Obama)
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To: logician2u
Gary Johnson is exactly the kind of man who could solve America's financial problems.

Which is why he doesn't have a prayer of getting elected - the government-media-Wall Street complex will annihilate him if he starts to attract attention.

But opinions on him are an excellent litmus test - stating disdain for Johnson and his candidacy on FR says a lot about who the "conservative" poster really is.

118 posted on 04/21/2011 1:21:23 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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To: Responsibility2nd; EternalVigilance
Dear Responsibility2nd,

What do I gotta do to qualify? I never thought of myself as a pro-life extremist, but it is true that I'd never, ever vote for a candidate for President of the United States of America who is in favor of legalized baby-killing, but hey, who am I to say?

EternalVigilance has always seemed to think I'm more of a “moderate,” LOL. ;-)


sitetest

119 posted on 04/21/2011 1:21:26 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: MrInvisible; Responsibility2nd; Dr. Brian Kopp; trisham; DJ MacWoW; little jeremiah; Coleus; ...
As for abortion in rape situations, I think that should be allowed. Why should a woman be forced to carry some degenerate’s seed?

Do you think that the children of all criminals should be put to death for a crime they didn't commit?

It would be more punishment heaped upon the woman and family involved.

Wow, that sound EXACTLY LIKE OBAMA when he said he didn't want his daughters "punished" with a baby?

Secondly, degenerates usually produce more degenerates.

Things a little slow today over at Stormfront?

I bet you thought Buck v. Bell was the greatest SCOTUS decision since Dred Scott.

Do you have actual evidence that "degenerates usually produce more degenerates" or is that just something you heard at a Klan rally?

I'm not sure if you noticed when you joined here a few months back, but Free Republic is a PRO-LIFE forum.

120 posted on 04/21/2011 1:21:33 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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