Question: What party nominated, for President of the United States, the man who appointed Gay Kernan to the New Mexico Senate in 2002?

Context articles: Gay Kernan
Ted Barela
Gary Johnson
United States Senate election in Indiana, 2010
Pat Woods (politician)
Jacob Candelaria
James Taylor (New Mexico politician)
John Arthur Smith
United States presidential election, 1960
Pete Campos

Gay G. Kernan (born in 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American politician and a Republican member of the New Mexico Senate representing District 42 since her 2002 appointment by Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Shirley Bailey.
Ted Barela is an American Republican politician formerly serving in the New Mexico Senate.
 He was appointed by Governor Susana Martinez in 2015 to replace Phil Griego, who resigned.
 Barela previously served as mayor of Estancia, New Mexico, from 2008 until 2013.
Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, author, and politician.
 He was the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party.
 He was also the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 2, 2010, alongside 33 other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections to fill Indiana's class III United States Senate seat.
 Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Evan Bayh decided in February 2010 to retire instead of seeking a third term shortly after former U.S. Senator Dan Coats announced his candidacy for Bayh's contested seat.
 No Democratic candidate submitted enough signatures by the deadline to run, leading Democratic officials to choose U.S. Congressman Brad Ellsworth to be the nominee.
 The Libertarian Party nominated YMCA instructor Rebecca Sink-Burris, who had previously run against Evan Bayh in the United States Senate election in Indiana, 1998 but with less success than in this election.
 Republican nominee and former U.S. Senator Dan Coats won the open seat.
John Patrick "Pat" Woods (born 1948 or 1949) is an American politician and a Republican member of the New Mexico Senate representing District 7.
 He was appointed on October 25, 2012 by Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Clinton Harden.
Jacob R. Candelaria (born 1986 or 1987) is an American politician from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who represents the 26th District in the New Mexico Senate.
 First elected in 2012, he is a member of the Democratic Party.
James G. Taylor (born February 5, 1966) is an American politician and Democratic former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing the 12th district from 1994 through 2004, when he was appointed to the New Mexico Senate, representing the 14th District.
 Taylor lost in 2008 to current State Senator Eric Griego in the Democratic primary.
 After losing the primary he filed a lawsuit trying to get a court to overturn the results of the election.
John Arthur Smith (born 1942) is a Democratic member of the New Mexico Senate, representing the 35th District since 1989.
 In 2002 he sought to represent New Mexico's second congressional district when veteran congressman Joe Skeen announced that he was retiring.
 He defeated Las Cruces mayor Ruben Smith in the Democratic primary, but ultimately lost to Republican Steve Pearce 56 to 44 percent.
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.
 The Republican Party nominated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, while the Democratic Party nominated John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
 The incumbent President, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, was not eligible for re-election after being elected the maximum two times allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment; he was the first President denied the choice to run for a third term by that amendment.
 This was the first presidential election in which residents in Alaska and Hawaii were able to participate, as both had become states in 1959.
Pete Campos is a Democratic member of the New Mexico Senate, representing the 8th District since 1991.
 Campos also serves as President of Luna Community College in Las Vegas, New Mexico.