Getting ready to run for President as , AN independent, looking for comments issuses and your views?

Question

Running as an independent, not a member of the independent party, your comments and views on the issues would be appriciated. i'm not looking for retoric or garbage, but real views on real issues, post here or on my 360 page thanks

Answer 1

Get behind and push for a constitutional amendment to repeal and replace the 14th Amendment. Section 1 of the 14th has three consecutive clauses that are vague and have been misused and abused by the Courts so much that it makes me want to stay away from the ballot box for the rest of my life.

Constitutional law ought to constitute a set of rules so that government (the level of government being commanded) can know what it can or cannot do. Constitutional law ought to "provide guidance and discipline for the legislature, which is entitled to know what kind of laws it may pass," and it ought to "mark the limit of [the Court's] authority." (From Romer v. Evans, 1996; morally correct rhetoric but completely hypocritical in reality.)

Declare that the 14th is repealed (we obviously don't need the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sections of it any more) and is replaced with more clearly stated rules for the states to obey.

In place of the Privileges and Immunities Clause, say that states must obey all provisions of the Bill of Rights except for the 2nd, 7th, and 9th amendments, and the Grand Jury Clause of the 5th.

Clarify that the Due Process Clause means exactly what it literally says and that, as Alexander Hamilton once said, it can never be applied to an act of the legislature (or voters). The Clause guarantees fair, standard PROCEDURES, not laws which judges deem acceptable.

Clarify that the Equal Protection Clause means only one thing: RACIAL equality. Not gender, not sexual orientation, not aliens, not equality for persons born out of wedlock, etc., etc.

The Supreme Court has been at its worst when: 1) it steals Presidential elections, 2) it enforces "unenumerated rights," and 3) picks out "minorities" other than racial minorites for "heightened protection."

"The current state of equal protection and fundamental rights is a travesty. The Court has drifted between different [clauses of the 14th] in deriving these rights as if they were so many coat hooks for the Court to use which-ever one is convenient. The various standards set out by the Court for deriving these rights are so vague as to be virtually useless. ... [T]he Fourteenth Amendment remains a hodgepodge of underdeveloped ideas." -- Evan Gerstmann, "Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution," (2003) Cambridge University Press, pp 209-210.

Answer 2

Are you sure you want the job? The next president is going to have to make some awfully unpopular decisions. A Draft or lottery for one. It seems like a pretty poor time to be thinking about THAT position. I mean, Jobs all going overseas, major American car companies going bankrupt, the illegal immigration mess, Iraq, Iran (soon), North Korea (soon), 9 trillion in debt...
Heck, I'm surprised the Democrats are going to field a candidate!

Answer 3

dont run as an independent, you dont have a chance. Run under a party, but keep your beliefs...o and get off yahoo, seriously dude, use a adviory cabnet not anybody who cares to click on on funny blue text.

Answer 4

Seal the borders , the number one issue

Answer 5

When you're president, would you institute a three-day weekend? That would be great!. By the way... I'm serious!

Answer 6

The only use an idependent has, it is large, will be to throw an election.