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First Declared GOP Presidential Candidate: Obama ‘Needs Zoloft’

It was a day of firsts in the nation’s capital Wednesday as the first official candidate for the 2012 presidential election filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission declaring his candidacy for the White House. The first 2012 contender also happens to be the first openly gay Republican running for president.

Retired California political consultant Fred Karger has already made campaign stops in Iowa and New Hampshire, run television ads and met with young Republican activists in key battleground states.

Earlier this week, Karger met with officials at the Republican National Committee (RNC), including chairman Reince Priebus, Mother Jones reports.

On Wednesday morning, Karger sat down to talk about his campaign with CBS News:

Karger also took time to critique some of his potential 2012 GOP opponents, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who Karger says is “living in the past”:

And, of course, Karger examines Obama’s presidency, concluding the commander-in-chief “needs Zoloft”:

Comments (93)

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  • don.hawley
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:53am

    Gay equals no vote, period.

    I don’t recognize my country for the moral sewer it has become.

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    • straightforward
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:24pm

      I’m with you, don.hawley, and midnight rider and harvey…and someone else who said to be a true conservative there has to be a moral center….please – can we come up with someone in 2012 who has a moral center? how refreshing would that be?

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:39am

    This guy is not for real. He knows he doesn‘t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting within a mile of the nomination. This is all for show, to get a name for himself.

    15 minutes and counting.

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  • Midnight Rider
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:34am

    Truthfully? I don’t recognize my country!

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  • James83940
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:18am

    Folks, every election there are individuals who file the paperwork and pay the few thousand bucks to run for president but have no political clout nor not enough money or donors to warrant a serious candidacy. How many of you remember seeing your primary ballot full of names you have never heard of? This is one of those guys. Don’t take his candidacy too serious, he’ll bow out and be forgotten within the first few debates, if he’s even invited to the debates with the other Republicans. 

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  • VLADTEPES
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:39am

    We don’t need a Rhino or someone who will cowtowel to a certain little group, go Donald..

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  • eddiee
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:37am

    Super gigantic loser, save you bucks, what a lib, go save a whale/.

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  • EP46
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:50am

    Oh freddie, barry does not need meds…..he just needs to be ‘re-strung”…the PUPPET has danced so hard that the strings are coming loose…the stuffing is falling out, the mechanical head has worn out the wheels, springs, and cogs that keep the eyes rotating and the mouth speaking out of both sides. Wow, must be tough to be a Puppet and get jerked around all the time.

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  • TXMD
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 5:12am

    For goodness sake. Let’s focus on someone that will not give away the election to that person filling space in the Whitehouse in 2912. Surely there is someone who has the fortitude, smarts, and appeal to rid the swamp just north of Virginia of the “Animal Farm infestation.”

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  • Harvey
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:40am

    I cant begin to say what iam thinking right now.What has America turned into.

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    • Eblaze44
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:32pm

      You really don’t watch much TV do you? or go to the movies? it’s all gay. even simple shows that should just be “informative” and “fun” The cooking shows – How to get fatter – and by the way – all my guests are gay men. how to buy a house or redecorate one – over 80% gay. ABC – pushes gay so hard makes my …. squeek. People, many many Americans, many who decry homosexuality, watch and support these shows and their sponsors. this guy has as much chance as Obama – probably not. I think Obama will actually win another four year vacation for his queen Michelle at taxpayer expense.

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  • runnin.whitehorse
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:59am

    A “cheeseburger” could be a Republican running for president and gain more attention. What, now we have to have a “christian” actually be a democrat candidate? This is just lucifer on a roll. good one. ha

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  • roughneck.seay
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:35am

    Already lost my vote…. That was a bust…. *Sigh* Don‘t tell me that’s all we got….

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  • bkfirvine
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:57am

    I took Zoloft for a while and “it’s not all that”. I’m on Prozac now.

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  • BiteMePETA
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:43am

    Cherynn, not always true… What people like Charles Krauthammer don’t seem to understand is that you sometimes drive far more people away than you gain buy not standing on your principals…

    Just like in the last election, we may lose the northeast corner, but if we’d stuck to values, we’d made up for it and much more in other areas of the country…

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:34am

    Ugh, get used to the fact that there are gay conservatives. Any vote against socialism helps dingbats. I dount this guy will get the nomination though.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:53am

    this guy isn’t getting our attention.
    so far we lean toward Congressman LTC ALLEN WEST foremost.

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  • MinorityRightsAdvocate
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:52am

    And as an open Gay Republican, he’d likely support an inexplicable system of discrimination in the Military that gives super rights to Gays!

    Oh, and obligates everyone else to pay!

    To be a conservative, a true one, there has to be a moral center. To think there is a special status and special rights because of some choices, and “orientations” is not logical or moral.

    http://minorityrightsadvocate.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/inexplicable-discrimination-directly-violating-%e2%80%9cequal%e2%80%9d-opportunity-in-the-military/

    http://minorityrightsadvocate.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/freedom-must-be-coupled-with-personal-responsibility-erosion-of-personal-responsibility-destroys-freedom/

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  • PJPony
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:39am

    He’s probably a plant.

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  • campt1
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:32am

    I don’t think soooo!

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  • mtandrews
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:27am

    I don’t like him. I need to scan my memory banks but something shakes me on this guy. One thing I definitely don’t like is the “big tent” stuff or the “living in the past” stuff either. As a Conservative I have no need for a Moderate. Just what we need, a gay John McCain… no thank you.

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    • freeus
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:21am

      I am one that left the party and no sodomite republican will be able to bring me back inside the tent.

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:23am

    Karger says Obama needs Zoloft?!!!!

    Go get ‘em, buddy!

    Start calling-out the gay twisted shyt in Rev Wright’s church – that The Obamas attended for TWENTY years.

    Review the Chicago bathhouse Con Game – of blackmail and extortion – over bjs.

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  • bookofdaniel
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:21am

    The world would eat this guy alive.

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  • IronSights
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:21am

    I’m having trouble getting over the fact that……..well you know……. He was formally involved in politics in CALIFORNIA. Honorable, conservative Californian politicians are very few.

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  • BiteMePETA
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:10am

    There are a couple areas Beck has been a total coward on and this is one of them…

    The other is the Birther stuff… Beck says the truth has no agenda and that we should all question with boldness… then turns right around and attacks people who question (and I might add that Beck freely admits he doesn‘t know and hasn’t bothered to check)….

    Glad for Beck, but he isn’t my hero…

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    • EP46
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:01am

      I believe if Glenn had FACTS on the ‘birther’ issue, we would hear them. He will not destroy his credibility by making assertions without facts and you know we cannot get ‘facts on barry’. When the Clinton Machine could not bring forth the proof, I knew it was a lost cause. Anything we get will be ‘manufactured’.

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    • APatriotFirst
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:10am

      Don’t forget the states that will require proof, via birth certificate, to even be put on ballot in 2012.

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    • Czar Casm
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:54am

      Pretty sure the birther issue is a trap. I‘m not saying quit looking for the truth but I wouldn’t risk my credibility and jump on board of this. It seems like a set up.

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  • BiteMePETA
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:06am

    This guy could destroy the Republican party…. ANYONE who starts saying others are living in the past are BAD news…

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:52am

      You got this partially right. This guy is NOT in there to represent “We The People”, he is in there to cause a distraction over the next 22 months. Someday we will find out there is Soros money involved. And no, I am not kidding!

      Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
      http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm

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    • lylee
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:04am

      You got that right! He is in the race to pit one Republican against another. He will say off-the-wall things to allow the media to demonize all Republicans. A Saul Alinsky tactic.

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  • CultureWarriors
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:59am

    No amount of pharmaceuticals can compensate for a lack of intellectual capacity. Obama needs an IQ boost not meds.

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    • Kurty C Wipe
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:58am

      Don‘t ask Don’t tell.. him, throw your money at Japan instead.The own our debt!

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    • GeneralBeasley
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:16am

      Ok so he’s a gay repulican, hmmm kind of a odd mix, but ok, is he really going to repesent us, in a whole or represent us, but the gay commuinity a little bit more. I think it’s obvious what he will make legal, and that is a deal breaker for me.

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    • Mikeyyy
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:01am

      You know, if he had smart people helping him make key decisions, that would be great too. But unfortunately he has epoch failed on that as well.

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    • razeus1
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:38am

      @wedontneednostinkingbadges I LOVE your name and your references to one of the funniest and Totally un-PC movies of all time! Rock on!

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:31am

      Yes, what would Zoloft do here? What a strange remark. BHO seems perfectly happy with himself, “high on life,” –his life that is: wielding great power and pretending he’s a billionaire with our money…

      My first thought about this guy Karger: the baseless yet “clever” put-down thing is a MSM technique with which many conservatives are already annoyed. Needs to be careful about the
      “living in the past” accusation.

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    • Shoot-To-Kill
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:15am

      In 2008 our choices were a Rino or a radical Muslim . In 2012 maybe the same radical Muslim and this gay radical? PLEASE , people of the U.S., WE have to do better than this!

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    • hifi74
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:29am

      He seems a nice enough guy, but we just don’t know anything about him. I would hate to make the same mistake that we made in 08.

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    • farmerpat42
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:35am

      As a plank of GOProud (the gay GOP group) – they indicate they are a NATIONAL issues group and as such don’t feel that the federal government has the right to dictate marriage terms.

      Hopefully this gentleman falls in that camp.

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    • ChristaJeanne
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:52am

      Fred Karger isn’t just a gay Republican – he is a total gay rights activist who will stop at nothing to get attention. Google “Fred Karger Boom Boom Room.”Long story short, an “iconic” gay bar closed in Laguna Beach because the property was purchased by a billionaire who wanted to redo it into a boutique hotel, the couple who had been running the bar were ready to move onto the next thing in their lives, and no one in the gay community could/would pony up the money to buy the property from the owner. Karger pushed to make the property owner out to be anti-gay, going to such extents as getting celebrities to petition him to “Save the Boom” and protesting in front of AIG’s headquarters (because the owner’s company was a subsidiary of AIG – his office wasn’t even in that building), etc., in the hopes the owner would donate the multimillion dollar property. It was such bizarre logic. http://articles.ocregister.com/2008-02-28/cities/24724387_1_gay-community-boom-boom-room-steven-udvar-hazy

      I covered all of this as a journalist, and I would never vote for Karger. His politics take a backseat to his gay rights agenda, and he is not a fair human being from my interactions with him.

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:01am

      He seems very nice and very authentic. But, a ‘reluctant Hillary supporter’? Hmmmm, still too liberal for me. But, a nice guy regardless, and we definitely do need MORE nice guys!

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:44am

      The only thing Obama needs is his walking papers. We need to get this guy out of office before it’s too late for this country.

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:54am

      PRESIDENT OBAMA’S MOTIVES:
      Do you actually believe that Mr. Obama is actually trying to improve the economy? In recent history, almost all coups, resulting in a dictatorship were preceded by a very severe economic crisis. Is that economic crisis Mr. Obama’s objective? Remember when Rahm Emanuel , Obama’s chief of staff, stated one should never waste a crisis. What do you think he meant? You should be very afraid!

      Mr. Obama presents 3 alternatives:
      • Ignorance, which can be cured with knowledge
      • Stupidity, which is forever
      • Evil, he plans to avenge King George III by destroying the American Revolution and create a dictatorship.

      Almost every initiative that Obama has instigated is destructive to the economy. Does anyone really believe that a President can be that stupid or ignorant? If you do, I have some perfectly dry, vacant land that is completely ready for development in Florida for sale cheap, cash only.

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    • Highland
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:02am

      A homosexual “Republican” who supported Hillary Clinton and Ralph Nader. Good grief.
      Wake me from this nightmare that is the 2012 presidential campaign!

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    • ME
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:08am

      All I heard was he is gay, If that is you defining statement for the white house you are really looking for a bath house and should stay there and let someone who whats to represent the majority not a minority run the country.

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:48am

      He is the Bravest, most intellectually Honest person in America. No “exploratory committees” and “advance off the books fund raising! Full speed ahead with basic beliefs! Right On! He has Guts and needs good luck – because most believe he will never win!

      Report Post » MONICNE  
    • rflaaskog
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:17am

      A Gay Republican is an oxymoron

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:07pm

      Hmmmmmm…interesting mix. Gay, Jewish and Republican…..too bad he’s not female….that would all but wipe out Obama’s base. I‘d love to see him debate before I’d rule him “in” or “out”. I’m all for thinking outside the box, and new approaches to old problems. I’m fed up with the status quo of plasting over all our ills with more regulation and cash. Show us what ya got Mr. Karger. Bring it!

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    • windswalker
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:04pm

      What should scare everyone is he’s from CALIFORNIA!!!

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:52pm

      @tobywil2 Very good points. One would hope that a person who gets elected President isn’t a complete imbecile. Which would lead one to concluded that he’s evil. However, I do think that Barry is WAY below average for a president in his intellectual capacity. I hear it every time he speaks. He just plain doesn’t have critical thinking skills, zero analytical skills and he doesn’t have the ability to think several steps ahead. He sounds to me like an 8th grader trying to sound smart when he isn’t. So I’m still sticking with … he’s an idiot that idiots voted for. Just watch him off prompter. You’d have to be pretty dense to think that there are 57 + 1 states, people speak “Austrian”, that government run health care will bring greater competition, choice & savings and that people who serve in the Navy are called “Corpse-Man”. Yeah, I stand with the idiot scenario. ;-)

      Report Post » CultureWarriors  
    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:10pm

      The first of many. This election is going to draw all of the kooks out of the woodwork. Jus‘ sayin’!

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