Gary Johnson Ron Paul Ticket: Ron Paul Could Have the Last Laugh After the Deceitful Republicans Fixed the Nomination Process

As Romney takes the stage tonight, it's important to note Romney and the Republicans are acting a lot like Democrats. Earlier this week we discovered the Romney campaign had gone to court to have Gary Johnson removed from the ballot in certain critical states for Romney. This comes as Romney and the Republican establishment played with convention rules to minimize the impact of Ron Paul's delegates. Of course all this comes after a controversial caucus process where the Republican establishment played hardball against Ron Paul supporters, often failing to follow rules and creating political theater to have the movement discredited like we saw in St. Charles, Missouri.

Yes, the Republicans don't play fair. They cheat the electoral process just like they blame the Democrats of.



We also learned something else this week. There appears to be a battle brewing to keep the Libertarian Party candidate out of the presidential debates. Gary Johnson is much like Congressman Paul, a defender of liberty with a tough record as being a common sense Constitutional conservative as governor of New Mexico. He is someone I can vote for with good conscience, unlike Mitt Romney who pushed socialized healthcare, gun control, and abortion.

For Johnson to get in the debates, he had to be polling at 5%. Now that number seems attainable for Governor Johnson, they are trying to keep him out of the presidential debate by raising the bar. The new number is 15%.

Why is Romney so scared of Gary Johnson? Simple.

Gary Johnson has a record conservatives can get behind. He isn't a big government liberal like Romney.


Johnson entered politics for the first time in 1994, with the intention of running for governor and was advised by "Republican Elders"[16] to run for the State Legislature instead.[16] Despite their advice, Johnson spent $500,000 of his own money and entered the race with the intent of bringing a "common sense business approach" to the office.[23] Johnson's campaign slogan was "People before Politics".[24] His platform emphasized tax cuts, job creation, state government spending growth restraint, and law and order.[3] He won the Republican nomination, defeating state legislator Richard P. Cheney by 34% to 33%, with John Dendahl and former governor David F. Cargo in third and fourth. Johnson subsequently won the general election, defeating the incumbent Democratic Governor Bruce King by 50% to 40%. Johnson was elected in a nationally Republican year, although party registration in the state of New Mexico at the time was 2-to-1 Democratic. As governor, Johnson followed a strict small government approach. According to former New Mexico Republican National Committee member Mickey D. Barnett, "Any time someone approached him about legislation for some purpose, his first response always was to ask if government should be involved in that to begin with."[25] He vetoed 200 of 424 bills in his first six months in office – a national record of 47% of all legislation – and used the line-item veto on most remaining bills.[2] In office, Johnson fulfilled his campaign promise to reduce the 10% annual growth of the state budget.[citation needed] In his first budget, Johnson proposed a wide range of tax cuts, including a repeal of the prescription drug tax, a $47 million income tax cut, and a 6 cents per gallon gasoline tax cut. However, of these, only the gasoline tax cut was passed.[26] During the November 1995 federal government shutdown, he joined 20 other Republican governors who called on the Republican leadership in Congress to stand firm in negotiations against the Clinton administration in budget negotiations; in the article reporting on the letter and concomitant news conference he was quoted as calling for eliminating the budget deficit through proportional cuts across the budget.

On the other hand, Romney governed Massachusetts a lot like Obama governs the country. I have given you a few examples already and as you can see, parallels with Obama are easily drawn when you consider Romney forced Catholic Hospitals of Massachusetts to administer abortion pills, had his own job producing stimulus plan with green energy initiatives. No jobs came from $700 million in state government spending and the green energy initiatives failed. I could go on, but I am not going to. That's not the purpose here.

There is a way to get Gary Johnson to the debates. All he needs to do is ask Ron Paul to join him on the Libertarian ticket and run for Vice President. Could you imagine the impact of that?

The Republican party would be running scared as they deserve after all their shenanigans in pushing Romney to the nomination. It would boost Johnson in the polls and make him a viable candidate since Paul won six states in the Republican primary.

Ron Paul for Vice President. Mr. Johnson, if you want to join these debates, you know what to do.