For those who, after Aleppo-gate, wonder how Johnson would do in an actual debate, here's an arguably not so shining moment from the one debate he managed to get himself into for the 2012 primaries (from
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...al-debate.html)
Governor Johnson, here in Florida, charter flights from Ft. Lauderdale to Havana, Cuba, have resumed. Is there a problem with that? And what are your thoughts on U.S.-Cuba policy?
JOHNSON: I think the biggest threat to our national security is the fact that we're bankrupt, so I am promising to submit a balanced budget to Congress in the year 2013, and included in that is a 43 percent reduction in military spending. I think it's crazy that we have foreign aid to company -- to countries when we're borrowing 43 cents out of every dollar to do that.
(APPLAUSE)
Military alliances -- military alliances are really key to other countries taking up the slack. With regard to flights to Cuba? You know, I'm -- I'm in favor, I think, of the whole notion that trade promotes friendship, as opposed to not. So I would be inclined to looking at establishing or supporting those kinds of flights.
BACHMANN: Bret? Bret?
BAIER: Governor Johnson, thank you.
Now...
BACHMANN: Excuse me, Bret? Could I weigh in on this?
BAIER: Congresswoman Bachmann?
BACHMANN: I'd like to weigh on this, because according to the State Department's website, there are four nations that are state sponsors of terror. Cuba is one of those nations. We would never have flights between the United States and Cuba. It's a state sponsor of terror.