Republicans, here's a question

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Charlie Crist
Gary Johnson
Tim Pawlenty

Crist and Pawlenty are rabid liberals who would show their true colors given electoral power.  Republicans in congress will vote for their programs and it will be Bush all over again.  With Obama they have someone to oppose at least.  I suspect that with Romney and Huckabee too - but I will reserve judgement.  We need an absolute hard-line conservative that would repeal Obamacare fully should it be enacted.

Isn't Gary Johnson the wacky guy from New Mexico?

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I don't see how economic conservative couldn't like Gingrich. He has lots of new ideas despite being a 90s politician and he is actually an intellectual, rare in modern politics.

He likes to talk a lot, but he doesn't speak for the base and he committed a cardinal sin by cutting a tv ad with Nancy Pelosi on global warming.  Turned a lot of conservatives, economic or otherwise, away from him.

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What is everybody's beef with Gary Johnson?

He's weird.

He's to Ron Paulish, right?

he's pro-drugs and totally anti-conservative

Being "pro-drugs" is actually a conservative position.  The War on Drugs and other sorts of prohibition have a long track record of failure and wasted money.  Conservatism is supposed to be logical, anti-corruption and economically efficient.

Yes that is correct.  Even William F. Buckley spoke of this.  Buckley actually once surmised that we could legalize drugs, tax them heavily and create drug stores where if people left the stores on a high then they could be placed in prison.  I think that was him at least.