Republican Candidate @ MindSay

(from Freedom and Reason)

Allow me to introduce to you Candidate X. Candidate X believes the following things:

There should be sharp restrictions on abortion. Candidate X's position is contrary to the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade ruling that recognized the right of women to control their reproductive capacity.

There is a Constitutional right for individual citizens to keep and bear arms for personal use. Candidate X believes that the Second Amendment, despite its emphasis of gun ownership in the context of a well-regulated militia, constrains a community's ability to protect its members from gun violence. To wit, there can be no gun ban.

The government shall enlarge the scope of government-funded faith-based organizations. Candidate X does not believe the establishment clause of the First Amendment was meant to keep church and state separate. In other words, Candidate X wants to transfer tax-payer dollars to religious organizations.

The government has the power to spy on its citizens and grant retroactive immunity to private corporations who cooperate with government surveillance, as well as grant immunity to government agents who violate the privacy of American citizens. Candidate X believes that the Fourth Amendment does not afford citizens the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, that is searches without probably cause supported by oath or affirmation describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The problems of the black community are largely attributable to a culture that teaches fathers to be irresponsible, children to fail in school, and women to have babies out of wedlock. Candidate X argues that the way to improve academic performance among black children is to stop eating fried chicken. Candidate X argues that best economic plan for struggling black communities would be to convince residents to stop throwing trash out of their car windows. Candidate X furthermore argues that the old guard of the black civil rights tradition are a collection of bitter and frustrated old men who have a false and pessimistic view of America.

Candidate X is a ______________.

A. Conservative
B. Liberal
C. Racist
D. Socialist
E. Both A and C.

With the voluminous campaigns underway and primaries looming nigh, will you be casting a ballot in the primary?  How will you choose your candidate?  Are you a straight party voter, or is there one major issue that will determine your vote? 

 

I'm undecided at this point as far as the candidate.  Perhaps I'm waiting to see which Dem and Rep are leading the pack by the time PA's primary comes around (22 Apr).  By that time, the decisions may already be made.  There are so many vital issues, it seems, and no ONE candidate believes as I do on each of them. 

 

Many of you fellow mindsayers are loyal Dem's and your blogs say so.  I read many of them.  There are not so many Rep's, but there are a few I read.  There are plenty of anti-Bush articles and blogs around the net and I'm continually amazed at how many people have made him the scapegoat for all the ills of both our nation and the world!  Think about it ... there's a reason to keep complicated diplomatic matters from the masses!  There's a reason to simplify!  The masses are gullible and stupid!   "All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."  Is 53:6 

 

Anyway ... lest anyone think that it is only the Republicans who lie ... TOP 100 Broken Promises!  I also appreciated the post from wendyinchicago with the Candidate Calculator which I found very helpful & interesting.  Half of those people I never heard of!  OK ... so with that said and that resource available, I'm coming down on the Republican side ... so far. 

 

Have you decided who you will support?  Is there ONE (or two) major issue for you? (Iraq, economy, immigration, education ... ?)  How will you decide?  Will you vote?

 

~ B

 

Here is something to ponder: Fred Thompson is being mentioned more and more as a viable candidate for the Republican nomination for President. In a Western World in which the cajones seemed to be missing, Thompson’s verbal slap of “pirate” Ahmadinejad is refreshing. The Thompson article sounds amazingly like another actor that became President – Ronald Reagan.

 

You can READ THOMPSON: HERE or HERE.