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.
Hey troll, is the "V" on your keyboard broken?
Why is it so difficult for you to understand that pro-lifers DO NOT VOTE FOR ABORTIONISTS?
The day the Republican party puts up an abortionist for president is the day it leaves me.
Those who wish to push abortion are welcome to push it elsewhere. Free Republic is a pro-life site. Abortion is the extremist position, not life.
Take heed.
trisham, stop it.
Read my posts and EternalV’s posts.
Who is attacking?
Not me.
Thank you, Jim. Needed doing.......
zot
Thank you x 2.
FR is a pro-life site and will not accept or support an abortionist candidate for president. If you wish to support an abortionist you can do it elsewhere. Try it on FR you get the zot.
Take heed.
Hey troll, Jim just made it crystal clear what he thinks about voting for an abortionist just because they have an "R" after their name:
The day the Republican party puts up an abortionist for president is the day it leaves me.Those who wish to push abortion are welcome to push it elsewhere. Free Republic is a pro-life site. Abortion is the extremist position, not life.
Take heed.
If America suffers because of your vote (rather, lack thereof) - take great pride in knowing you helped a Marxist win a second term.
If neither party can field a pro life candidate then America as we know it is lost.
"The Declaration of Independence was formed by the representatives of American liberty from thirteen States of the Confederacy, twelve of which were slaveholding communities. We need not discuss the way or the reason of their becoming slave-holding communities. It is sufficient for our purpose that all of them greatly deplored the evil and that they placed a provision in the Constitution which they supposed would gradually remove the disease by cutting off its source. This was the abolition of the slave trade. So general was the conviction, the public determination, to abolish the African slave trade, that the provision which I have referred to as being placed in the Constitution declared that it should not be abolished prior to the year 1808. A constitutional provision was necessary to prevent the people, through Congress, from putting a stop to the traffic immediately at the close of the war. Now if slavery had been a good thing, would the Fathers of the Republic have taken a step calculated to diminish its beneficent influences among themselves, and snatch the boon wholly from their posterity? These communities, by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe. This was their lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to his creatures. Yes, gentlemen, to all his creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children, and their children's children, and the countless myriads who should inhabit the earth in other ages. Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, or none but Anglo-Saxon white men, were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began, so that truth and justice and mercy and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built."Now, my countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our chart of liberty, let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the Revolution. Think nothing of me — take no thought for the political fate of any man whomsoever — but come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may not only defeat me for the Senate, but you may take me and put me to death. While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry and insignificant thought for any man's success. It is nothing; I am nothing; Judge Douglas is nothing. But do not destroy that immortal emblem of Humanity — the Declaration of American Independence."
Thank you very much, it was getting way beyond surreal.
“The day the Republican party puts up an abortionist for president is the day it leaves me.”
Well put.
A viable third-party candidate, which will be available if a pro-abortion Republican is ever the nominee.
Ask Rudy Giuliani how likely it is for a pro-abortion Republican to win.
“He is already a RINO.”
No, he’s a libertarian.
RINOS are liberals.
I want to beat a liberal.
I can drink beer with a libertarian. I can put them in charge on the budget. Heck, I WANT them in charge of the budget.
Social issues , eh, not so much.
I still think that we should UNITE and not run to a 3rd party. The enemy IMHO is 0. I went for the Libertarian route in 1996, and I wish I went for Dole Kemp.
I think she is turning around -- she is getting tired of 0 (thou she doesn't like the GOP.)
But abortion is an assault on those basic, Christian, fundamental rights that require us to say no to 80% and go over that cliff. If we lose this war then no other war matters. Without LIFE, then liberty and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless.
Call it what you will. If that makes us zealots then so be it. We can not let the left define it as anything but the harsh truth.
While I am not a big fan of his positions, he was my governor, and he was a pretty good governor.
I am not so sure Johnson can be called “pro-abortion.”
He signed laws outlawing late-term abortions.
He signed laws requiring parental notification.
He opposes any tax money for abortions.
He favors the reversal of Roe v. Wade and returning the issue to each State.
Outside of favoring a Constitutional Amendment outlawing abortion, that’s a solid B+ on the abortion issue.
Note, this is not an endorsement of Johnson -— he’s bit of a whacko and left the Republican party of New Mexico in disarray when he left.
He was a cheap son of a bitch with MY MONEY.
As a practical matter, that’s a big deal.
I’m pro-life but for 2012 we neede to be UNITED to DEFEAT 0, I hope we will get a PRO-LIFE CANDIDATE. I want Sarah Palin as P with Michelle Bachman as \/p. That would get the NAGS (as Rush calls them) UNHINGED!!! :)
First of all, did you miss what Jim said about pushing an abortionist for POTUS? Check MrInvisible's profile if you need a hint.
Secondly, NOBODY ever suggested voting for Obama.
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