{"id":14931,"date":"2012-05-06T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14931"},"modified":"2012-05-06T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T14:19:23","slug":"gary-johnson-wins-the-libertarian-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/gary-johnson-wins-the-libertarian-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Johnson wins the Libertarian nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson won the Libertarian Party&#8217;s nomination for their presidential candidate. Yesterday, before the vote, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2012\/05\/the_libertarian_party_is_expected_to_nominate_gary_johnson_for_president_.html\">Dave Weigel<\/a> posted this profile of Johnson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gary Johnson is late. He\u2019s pretty happy about the reason: too many interviews on the schedule today. That was <em>never<\/em> a problem when he was running for the Republican Party\u2019s presidential nomination. Now that he\u2019s the front-runner for the less-exclusive Libertarian Party nod, people want to talk to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started out at Grover Norquist\u2019s meeting,\u201d says Johnson, putting down his iPad to join me at a Dupont circle coffee shop. Norquist\u2019s meeting of conservatives is off the record, but attendees can confirm that they crossed the threshold. \u201cI thought it was a really good reception. Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language. And it was <em>all good<\/em>. Nobody was dozing off. Nobody was shaking their heads. They were actually shaking their head <em>this<\/em> way.\u201d He nods vigorously.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re talking on the day that Newt Gingrich announced the end of his profound presidential bid, when the Republican Party, supposedly, was learning to love Mitt Romney. It\u2019s a few days before Johnson will claim the Libertarian Party\u2019s nomination, potentially becoming a spoiler for Romney. The heads really nodded <em>this<\/em> way? No heads shaking <em>that<\/em> way?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, none, zero,\u201d says Johnson. \u201cI really believe I\u2019m gonna take it from Obama rather than Romney. I joke, you know &mdash; maybe all those pot-smoking, marriage equality, get out of Afghanistan voters for Romney are going to switch to me. Then, boy, he\u2019ll be in trouble!\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson won the Libertarian Party&#8217;s nomination for their presidential candidate. Yesterday, before the vote, Dave Weigel posted this profile of Johnson: Gary Johnson is late. He\u2019s pretty happy about the reason: too many interviews on the schedule today. That was never a problem when he was running for the Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,10,53,13],"tags":[188,728,550],"class_list":["post-14931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-garyjohnson","tag-libertarianism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3SP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14932,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931\/revisions\/14932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}