The primary question about the Republican presidential campaign of Gary Johnson is this: Who is Gary Johnson?
Seeking an answer to this question, I looked to the most direct source: What Gary Johnson says about his own presidential campaign. I grabbed the text from the issue pages of Gary Johnson’s 2012 campaign web site, and processed it through the word cloud generator provided by Wordle. The result is seen below:
This graphic represents which words the Gary Johnson uses most often. From this visual analysis, the key issue of the Gary Johnson for President campaign is easy to identify: It’s the legalization of currently illegal drugs, especially marijuana. Only Internet freedom comes anywhere close.
Medicare? It’s a minor issue for Gary Johnson. War? It’s a non-issue for Johnson. Education? It’s nothing compared to what Gary Johnson wants to do with drugs.
Given this clear focus of the Gary Johnson for President campaign, do you think we can expect his grassroots support to be energetic and focused?
A Republican pro-marijuana? Unheard of.
Not unheard of any more. Now that you’ve heard of it, what do you think of it? Can it be successful?
Am stoked. Go gary go!
Stoked? Can you explain your use of that language in terms of marijuana legalization?
Republician anti prohibition? Yes, I’ve heard of it. Sarah Palin said we shouldn’t punish marijuana use. Ron Paul said the same. We waste plenty of money on the border that would be reduced if Americans grew their own pot instead of buying it from mules. Marijuana decriminalization is a sane policy. It is cost effective, it creates tax revenue, it creates legitimate jobs, it isn’t any different than alcohol. In my book you should do one of the other – decriminalize pot or criminalize alcohol.
Better yet, let the states decide. Republicans are pro-state rights until it comes to something they don’t like. The war on drugs has been a failure in all sense of the term. The same arguments agains legalization of pot could be applied to alcohol. The difference between pot and alcohol is pot is safer.
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I think Gary Johnson is the best person running for President!
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