Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Gary Johnson for President

Independent voters hankering for a genuine alternative to Barack Lyndon Roosevelt Obama on the left and Fox News flunkies on the right might have their man. No, it's not Ron Paul, the Texas Republican congressman who electrified them last election cycle. In her latest column for The Daily, Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia notes that it is arguably someone better: the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson. As Dalmia writes:

Johnson, who became the first to declare his candidacy for the 2012 Republican nomination last week, is the most consistently pro-liberty Republican or Democratic candidate in living memory. Like Paul, he is anti-war, anti-big government and pro-civil liberties. But unlike Paul, he is pro-choice (except for late-term abortions), pro-immigration, pro-trade and untainted by bizarre conspiracy theories that NAFTA is a prelude to the dissolution of North American borders.

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