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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: Responsibility2nd; Leo Farnsworth
Leo used a heck of a lot more ad hominems than "extremist" here.

I think you should add all the nasty names he's called pro-lifers here to your title........though they might not all fit on the page.... ;)

161 posted on 04/21/2011 1:48:52 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Look, I’m a fundamentalist Christian, just like I suspect you are and I’m against abortion hence my support of the GOP. However, rape is a different matter. Rape is an act of war, not an act of love or affection. Think about it. Could you honestly demand a loved one to go through with it, even when it could ruin her health, or kill her childbirth, financially ruin her and more?


162 posted on 04/21/2011 1:49:20 PM PDT by MrInvisible
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To: trisham

It’s a drug use sub-forum.

It was appropriate.


163 posted on 04/21/2011 1:50:22 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Yeah, I’m not seeing it.


164 posted on 04/21/2011 1:51:06 PM PDT by CougarGA7
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To: ohioWfan
“That post shows an amazing inability to perceive what’s going on here with the angry Mr Farnsworth relative to the group of discerning pro-life freepers.”

The “angry Mr. Farnsworth” IS pro life.

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165 posted on 04/21/2011 1:52:03 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: MrInvisible
No I’m not. What about the rights of the woman involved? You can’t honestly tell me that you’d demand a loved one to carry her rapists seed to full term and raise that child. Rape is an act of war. It’s a sign of conquering someone. it’s completely different from the act of 2 people being in love and “Whoops, we’re pregnant!”

The right to life is the supreme right. No other right supercedes it.

To use your analogy, you don't remedy the acts of war criminals by becoming one yourself. All you do is double the casualties and destroy your own soul.

166 posted on 04/21/2011 1:52:19 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Sadly, the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Darn, I’m too busy to post much today and have Leo go ape**** on me. That would not only be fun but easy and right up my alley. Maybe I’ll have time later. Add me to the ping list, though.


167 posted on 04/21/2011 1:52:31 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: MrInvisible

In a word - Yes.

If a mother can’t or won’t care for her own child, then there’s the option of adoption.

I’ve adopted two children. Thank God their birthmothers didn’t feel like you do.


168 posted on 04/21/2011 1:52:31 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: little jeremiah; Responsibility2nd

That’s not exactly what I’m saying. Remember the baby that King David prayed and fasted for but it still died? I think that may somewhat be relevant. Look, nobody’s talking about late term abortion or abortion in general. I’m talking about RAPE. Would you honestly demand a loved one to go through with pregnancy knowing it could harm her health or kill her, or financially ruin her, etc., etc.? I have a wife and 5 daughters so maybe I see this differently than you do. That girl in Texas that recently got raped by 11+ guys, should she be required to bear that seed?


169 posted on 04/21/2011 1:53:37 PM PDT by MrInvisible
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To: Leo Farnsworth

People who are anti-abortion take drugs?


170 posted on 04/21/2011 1:53:46 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Take a look at ExCTCitizen.


171 posted on 04/21/2011 1:53:46 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: MrInvisible
I’m against abortion hence my support of the GOP.

Now you went and made a funny. Unintentional, I'm sure. But side-splitting nonetheless.

172 posted on 04/21/2011 1:53:52 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Sadly, the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.)
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To: little jeremiah

Oh look, he went ape-bleep up there without any provocation, just all by his lonesome.


173 posted on 04/21/2011 1:54:05 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: MrInvisible

I became pro-life when I worked in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I saw babies born (and survive) as early as 20 weeks after conception. Literally down the hall, in the same hospital, babies who were older were being killed in abortion. The only difference I could see between the two was that the babies in the NICU were wanted by their mothers and the babies in the “Fertility Control Clinic” were not. That’s a pretty poor basis for deciding who has a right to live and who doesn’t.


174 posted on 04/21/2011 1:54:21 PM PDT by StonyMan451
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To: ohioWfan
Wow.

I've used:
Zealot.

Imbecile.

Leo is Pro Life.

Who is using nasty names here, FRiend?

175 posted on 04/21/2011 1:54:39 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: Leo Farnsworth; ohioWfan; EternalVigilance; Responsibility2nd; sitetest; Dr. Brian Kopp; trisham; ..
The “angry Mr. Farnsworth” IS pro life.

Based on your posts in this thread, you sound more like the "personally opposed, but" type.

176 posted on 04/21/2011 1:55:50 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: little jeremiah
Added.

 
Ping me if you want to be added/deleted to The Leo Farnsworth's Extremist List 
 
Responsibility2nd
Never on my watch
EternalVigilance
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LUV W
Betis70
ohioWfan
La Enchiladita
sitetest
Wagglebee
Abe Lincoln
Little Jeremiah
 


177 posted on 04/21/2011 1:56:13 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: little jeremiah
Really.

It's hard to be a FReeper sometimes when jerks like you go ape**** on me for no reason.

Read my posts.

Then respond to me directly.

Why be such an extremist tool?

178 posted on 04/21/2011 1:57:27 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: little jeremiah

Your attributing a posters comment to Johnson. Gary’s not the strongest social conservative, but he doesn’t think that way.

And yes, I know him.


179 posted on 04/21/2011 1:57:56 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Leo Farnsworth
The “angry Mr. Farnsworth” IS pro life.

Odd then, isn't it, that no one believes you.

180 posted on 04/21/2011 1:58:00 PM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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