would you vote for a candidate who stands for the following?

Question

1. ANTI-CRIME in all its forms
a. illegal aliens
b. politicians who take llegal campaign funds, "gifts" in exchange for votes etc
c. any other crime you can think of
2. STOPPING GOVERNMENT WASTE The US government should not pay one penny over retail for anything, and I actually think it should pay wholesale!
3. STOPPING ENTITLEMENTS 76 years of it is 4 generations of people who never learned to earn their own way!
4. BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR ALL WHO RUN FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICE AND APPOINTEES!
expose the criminals before they get a foot in the door!
5. STOP EXPORT OF AMERICAN OIL WHEN WE PAY MORE FOR ARAB OIL!
6. STOP FOREIG PRODUCT DUMPING AND UNFAIR TRADE IMBALANCES
7. STOP SENDING OUR TAX MONEY TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS
8. STOP REBUILDING ENEMIES AFTER AN ARMED CONFLICT
9. SCALE BACK GOVERNMENT TO WHAT THE CONSTITUTION ALLOWS!!!
10. PROTECT OUR CITIZENS WORLDWIDE
11. STOP CORPORATE WELFARE
12. ANTI-POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

IS THIS THE PERSON YOU WANT FOR PRESIDENT?

VOTE FOR INDEPENDANTS ( and independence) AND VOTE OUT INCUMBANTS IN '08
A healthy country, a constitutional government and better choice!

DO YOU WANT SOMEONE TO PUSH FOR TERM LIMITS AND WHO WILL HELP CLEAN HOUSE?
SOMEONE WHO WILL END THE TYRANNY OF THE CAREERPOLITICIAN?

1. The caps and small case wre the topic and the description, so I did state, at least in part what I mean by waste, etc...
2. It is heartless to not teach a man to fish and just give him a fish every day. As for peole never having a chance? That is bull-you-know-what! Peope in this country get FREE education, what they do with it more often than not determines how they end up!
If you think that we do not produce and export oil, you are again rong! we have sold alaskan pipeline and texan and oklahoman oil to Japan for decades and at prices lower than the replacement oil from the arab world costs!
AMERICANS PAY TAXES TO THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND IT IS NOT IN THEIR MORAL DOMAIN TO TAKE MY MONEY AND GIVE IT A FOREIGN POWER!
Combating PC is nothing more than refusing to give in to the trades and labels that they stick on opponents when there is no moral or political way to win!
PLZ don't call me racist/homophobe/xenophobe! I will give in because I am not that!
IT'S A BS TACTIC!

Answer 1

Yes & if a miracle happens and that person appears I will vote for them, but in the meantime I will stay with the Republicans.

Answer 2

No. There are compromises that can be made on all of your points except #4, #6,, #8, #10, and #11.

#1 depends upon your definition of what a crime is. There are many things on the lawbooks that are listed as crimes, however, we don't enforce them, nor should they be enforced.
#2 depends upon what you believe is waste and what isn't.
#3 is heartless in the fact that not everyone is provided an equal opportunity regardless of what you hear.
#5: We need to actually produce a sufficient amount before you can say that we need to stop exporting it. We sit on a lot of our own oil, while we import others' oil.
#7: It depends upon which foreign governments you sending it to. If the government spends it properly, I see no reason why we can't give some to those that need it. It's the sending of money to despotic governments that is wrong.
#9: It depends upon your interpretation of what the Constitution allows. If you scale it back to what it directly allows, more rampant corruption and disparate income gaps will occur. Our quality of life improved to where it was (until recently) because of what you may call a "liberal" interpretation of the Constitution.
#12: While I don't agree with most P.C. issues, we must show some restraint and respect to others with differing viewpoints. The full unleashing of anti-PC would allow groups such as the KKK and Fred Phelps to have bigger stages than they do already. And I personally don't want to see them have bigger soapboxes on which to unleash their hatred.

Answer 3

NO!! That person would be going overboard on some things. Also, the Congress would not have the guts to change the other items. One way to start getting rid of someone like this is to vote against him or her. To many U.S. citizens do not realize how important that it is that we not only have a "right to vote" we also have a "responsibility to vote". How many people do you know that actually exercise their right to vote? A few times in a polling place that i work in during elections i have seen brand new U.S. citizens vote for the first time in an election in the U.S.

Answer 4

No, I wouldn't vote for that person. The person you are describing is an idealogue and is far more dangerous than what we already have.

It seems so SIMPLE when you write it all down so nice and neat but in reality you have no GD idea what the hell you are talking about.


In my state, we inacted strict term limit laws. Do you know what the result is? A state legislature than has ceased to function! Frustrating as hell to watch those inexperienced fools fall over themselves trying to figure out how to run the state. To hell with that, give me career politicians. You may not liek what gets done, but SOMETHING gets done which is far better than nothing.

Answer 5

In short, no, because about half the position statements are simplistic and are probably hiding some preconceived agenda. For instance, who ISN'T for protecting our citizens worldwide? But the devil is in the details... OK, so some radical jihadists kidnap some christian missionaries who had no business being in BoingBoingistan anyway, are we going to invade? this is the kind of stuff we get caught in.

Sorry, I would actually vote *against* this guy until (s)he actually got into details.

Answer 6

Can you name one independant that has ever been elected? Into an Office of Meaning? So many good answers, no reason to do the same. I am proud of the Americans, that told You like it is.

Answer 7

Absolutely, I couldn't agree with you more.
That's why I'm a libertarian.
But unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that a libertarian or independent candidate would ever make it into a significant position in our government.

Answer 8

some are good points, some are very bad points. my vote would depend on what other canidates i had to choose from. the sad thing about presidental elections is you usually only have 2 choices.

Answer 9

Be careful, as some of the things you ask for are in place for reasons that make them much more worthwhile than you realize. Yet, as ideals, I love them. Keep fighting for them.

Answer 10

Where is gay rights? The Homocrats won't vote for that unless you give special rights to the queers.