Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 201-220221-240241-260 ... 401-402 next last
To: MrInvisible

Of course everyone is different and unique and some have more propensity to crime than others.

Your argument can easily be used to profile children who are “more prone to crime” and kill them. Or sterilize adults who have commited crimes or are likely to.

It’s repellent.

It also ignores the fact that people can and do change. I’ve committed petty crimes, more than 40 years ago. Should I have been prevented from having children or forced to undergo abortion?


221 posted on 04/21/2011 2:23:11 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 208 | View Replies]

To: MrInvisible

You’re argument also says that only worthy babies should be allowed to be born. Those who will be cute and smiling.


222 posted on 04/21/2011 2:23:51 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 208 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Ok, you’re losing me with a response like that. May I remind you, that we went through 8 pregnancies in search of that elusive boy and my wife was considered by some to be too old to have babies. So does that answer your question about Palin’s baby?

I will also ask you this, how many kids do you have? How many pregnancies have you gone through? How many friends do you know who’ve had 4+ kids? Pregnancy isn’t a walk in the park, it’s potentially life-threatening. I’ve been to the ER due to a misscarriage and seeing the bumbling incompetence of the staff there, you can’t tell me pregnancy is without risk.

You still haven’t answered my question. Should that teenage girl who was raped by 11+ thugs, would you force her to potentially conceive and get pregnant?


223 posted on 04/21/2011 2:26:03 PM PDT by MrInvisible
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 211 | View Replies]

To: Never on my watch
You are woefully uninformed and your opinion is foolish and inaccurate.

I truly do not care a wit what you think of me.

Pity that we are on the same side of this argument and we are arguing because of my post #24 that started all this.

I really must rethink my position on pro lifers (not my pro life view).

I've seldom had such outrageous statements made against me from those I typically agree with.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the degree of fanaticism by several FReepers on this thread.

224 posted on 04/21/2011 2:27:04 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 210 | View Replies]

To: ExCTCitizen

But, your problem is that you’re creating a false choice.

As Christians, God never, ever puts us in a position where we must do evil.

And, as Americans, we never, ever have to give our sacred franchise as citizens away to those who have abandoned our most important foundational principles.


225 posted on 04/21/2011 2:28:20 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Sadly, the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 212 | View Replies]

To: ohioWfan
So, I'm a pro abortion Freeper?

Time for me to leave this thread and return to planet Earth.

226 posted on 04/21/2011 2:28:51 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 220 | View Replies]

To: Leo Farnsworth
fanaticism

Defined by you as someone who calls killing a child "child-killing."

227 posted on 04/21/2011 2:29:48 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Sadly, the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 224 | View Replies]

To: little jeremiah

No my argument does not say that in the least. You’re not comprehending my posts.


228 posted on 04/21/2011 2:30:57 PM PDT by MrInvisible
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 222 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator
Gary Johnston Team America
229 posted on 04/21/2011 2:31:20 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Leo Farnsworth
So, I'm a pro abortion Freeper?

I didn't say anthing remotely like this. Stop making things up.

I think you need to take a walk and get some air.

I've got to leave for church. Be well, Leo.

230 posted on 04/21/2011 2:31:24 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 226 | View Replies]

To: MrInvisible
We’ve just went through 8 pregnancies.

3 miscarriages.

5 happy, healthy girls.

So I know what I’m talking about when it comes to pregnancy and having babies.

Pregnancy is tough, miserable and at times frightening.

The 1 of the 3 miscarriages had us rushing to the emergency room with surgery recommended. My wife’s last 2 pregnancies were awful on her. If my wife were to get pregnant again, it probably would put her in the hospital.

My friend’s wife just had a baby and she had to be rushed to the ER, and her pregnancy was absolutely miserable. She’s lethargic, miserable and wiped out.

Pregnancy can KILL YOU.

I just don’t get this kind of reasoning. Forcing a loved one to not take a pill after she’s raped and forcing her to potentially get pregnant. Putting her health and life and future at risk. And yet, isn’t Scripture replete with verses that a person’s nature carries through their blood. So far, no one’s presented a good enough argument to convince me otherwise.

*****************************

First, you know what you have experienced regarding pregnancy. Not everyone has the same experience. Many, many women enjoy pregnancy. My mother had seven children without any complications.

Second, most women today do not die in childbirth. IIRC, the number is 10 out of 100,000 in countries such as ours.

Third, who on this thread is talking about "forcing a woman to not take a pill and forcing her to potentially get pregnant"?

231 posted on 04/21/2011 2:32:17 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 193 | View Replies]

To: ohioWfan

I gotta go, too. It sure has been exciting today.


232 posted on 04/21/2011 2:33:10 PM PDT by StonyMan451
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 230 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee; Jim Robertson; All
Now if I am going to be ZOTTED because I beliee that I could \/ote for a GOP who is pro-choice against 0, I'm sorry. If it comes down to 0 (who is a MARXIST) or someone who is conser\/ati\/e, but who is pro-choice, I'm going for the GOP candidate.

I just wish that we all were PRO-LIFE, but some REPUBLICANS aren't. Should a REPUBLICAN who is to the RIGHT of Rush or Sean be disqualified if he is PRO-CHOICE???

233 posted on 04/21/2011 2:34:36 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Wanted a keyboard with a working '\/' key!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 171 | View Replies]

To: EternalVigilance

That someone even needs to see that to understand..........


234 posted on 04/21/2011 2:34:43 PM PDT by luvie (GOP? You need to fight like a GIRL!!~~Sarah Palin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 89 | View Replies]

To: ohioWfan
Than what am I making up?

YOU tell me.

YOU accused ME of making things up. What did I make up?

While you are at your church, prey to God almighty that he will forgive you for your imbecility that is so clearly on display for all of us to see and pity you for.

235 posted on 04/21/2011 2:35:37 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 230 | View Replies]

To: trisham

“Third, who on this thread is talking about “forcing a woman to not take a pill and forcing her to potentially get pregnant”?”

Well apparently quite a few here think that if a woman gets raped she has no right to take the pill to prevent pregnancy. They feel she should be forced to carry a pregnancy in the case of RAPE.


236 posted on 04/21/2011 2:35:42 PM PDT by MrInvisible
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 231 | View Replies]

To: Defend Liberty
He’s pro abortion....

From the political perspective; what - exactly and specifically - does "pro abortion" mean?

237 posted on 04/21/2011 2:36:24 PM PDT by Logic n' Reason ("I'm an expert on life...after shit happens." (Dead Like Me))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: All
By the way, Gary Johnson also supports sodomite fake marriage.

I"m sure I'll be roundly chastised for such intemperate extremist language...

238 posted on 04/21/2011 2:37:00 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Sadly, the Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 231 | View Replies]

To: MrInvisible

Yes it does. If a baby should be killed because the father is sinful, what about those already born whose fathers are sinful? Or ones conceived not by rape but whose fathers are sinful?

Just carry the “logic” further and that’s where it goes.

Eugenics. “Bad blood”.


239 posted on 04/21/2011 2:38:34 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 228 | View Replies]

To: MrInvisible

You still haven’t answered my question. Should that teenage girl who was raped by 11+ thugs, would you force her to potentially conceive and get pregnant?

______________________________________________

As has been explained to you - again and again - A conservative does not believe in abortion. Under any circumstances.

And as a Christian - how dare you call for violence to repay violence?

And as I read your repsonse about Palin’s special needs baby; I think I hit the nail on the head asking you if you would have called for an abortion. I think you would have.


240 posted on 04/21/2011 2:39:41 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A Birther: One who has questions or concerns over the birth of Barry Barack Hussein Soetero Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 223 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 201-220221-240241-260 ... 401-402 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson