How would you describe your political views?

[BattleRifleG3]

Check all that apply

[jerry]

you trying to start WWIV?

Just kidding

Libertarian..but Bush still has my vote :right:

[NRAJOE]

Conservative...got a problem with that? :full: :nod:

[7mmag6]

Im a litle to the right of genkis khan

[tommy]

well i ain't votin for bush so i b a democrate dis yeya.

[Rave]

Conservative,always was,probably always will be.

[Big Dog]

Ah'm a confederate, y'all. But, I'll be voting Conservative Republican.

[ScottD]

Middle of the road with a slight leaning towards the right.

[Sniper[MI]]

Originally Posted by 7mmag6

Im a litle to the right of genkis khan

:nod:

Tho I was gonna say I am to the right of Atilla the Hun, you took my sentiments exactly!!! LOL!!!
:ballons:

[BattleRifleG3]

Few of these are mutually exclusive. Check all that apply.

I'm a Federalist because I believe in a well defined central government and uniform laws. I believe that if the federal government had been better defined and uniform laws better established in our first few decades, it may have looked bigger at the time than the Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson's folk who wanted less centralization) wanted it to be, but that in time it would have not grown as much having been better defined and restricted.
I respectfully disagree that the US should be a mere confederation of independent states that can come and go without a big deal, but I do think secession should not be out of the picture - just that the causes at the time were not the right ones and that if the legislators and aristocrats on both sides had acted in the interests of their people, the problems that caused the Civil War wouldn't have happened. I think they compromised where they ultimately couldn't, and didn't compromise where they should have. Mainly they were rude jerks to each other.

I'm a Conservative because I believe in staying true to our founding and complying with the Constitution. I believe that America is great because America is good, and that having a moral society is essential to preserving America. I believe in national security and loyalty to our government inasmuch as it is conscienable. I believe that religious freedom means that people of faith can elect people according to their faith who will speak accordingly in their role as they see fit. They are only restrained from persecuting the religion of others or connecting the state with any religious institution or community (with the same results.)

I am a Libertarian because I believe that individual rights and freedom are essential to a prosperous and free society. I believe in a free market, minimal governmental involvement in private affairs, and the rights of people to make their own choices morally, financially, with their property, in their interactions, so long as they do not actively harm another person (a central tenet of libertarianism.) I believe government on every level should uphold human liberties, not just have a minimal federal government that allows states to be tyrannies (ie CA). I am opposed to the income tax, because if a government has the right to decide what of your earnings you keep, that is merely slavery in a lesser degree than is obvious (the position of Ambassador Alan Keyes.)

Socialism in my view IS slavery, to whatever extent it is in effect. I am violently opposed to it. I am only liberal to the extent that I believe in hearing all the sides of an issue and showing them due respect, but that there is truth to be found, not relativism.

Theocracy has done very little to preach true religion, and has primarily intermingled religious views and secular agendas in a very bad way. Only independently can a state and a church do what they are supposed to.

I have religious opposition to Socialism, because it places the government in a position of oversight and assumes a righteousness that only God has. Man cannot properly manage man. Governing is hard enough.

If you believe that man is naturally good, then you might think Anarchy, the lack of government, can work. But I believe religiously, and believe that history proves, that man is sinful and when left to his own devices will use what force he has against another, ultimately leading to some form of facism, barbarism, and animalism. The Bible clearly says that government is necessary, even if imperfect. I'm not just subscribing to it cause it's what my religion teaches, I believe it's reality, and if it's true then we need government. In its worst state government is as bad, but that is not always the case.

Facism basically believes that might makes right. I believe that there is moral truth and that forces will go in many good and bad ways. One day the good will be strong, another the evil will be. The truth doesn't change depending on who's in control. Ultimately, Socialism becomes facism, as the system must be forced upon people somehow.

And Globalism is ultimately imperialism, as people have tried to unite the world under one government. It is the ultimate detachment of people from their government as no one government can rightly govern all nations fairly. Only God is Lord of all, and I believe that the closer we get to one world government, the closer we get to the end of the world and the Antichrist (not that they will all be one in the same, or that it will take the commonly expected form, only that it will happen.)

Historical American figures I ascribe to are George Washington, John Adams, and the like. Ones I partly agree with but disagree with on a great many things are Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Paine (all of them went down hill in my opinion after the revolution, while the Federalists had the right idea.) Ones I think were in the end destructive to our country include Andrew Jackson (as president, not general), Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR. Abe Lincoln has a story that makes him in my view a dynamic character in US history (meaning he changed drastically during his involvement.)

Those in government and media who I agree with almost entirely include Alan Keyes, Rick Santorum, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Rush Limbaugh, and Vernon Robinson. Those who I generally respect with a few disagreements, some of them serious, include GW Bush, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Orrin Hatch, the Governator, and more. My absolute political enemies include Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Charles Schumer, John Kerry, Billary Clinton, Janet Reno, and our rotten stinking governor Ed Rendell.

[whirlwind]

much like 7mm,i also think gengas khan was a pu$$y ! confederate conservative here

[Despoiler]

I'm a california Conservative.

BR3 - Why was the choice "Conservative" the only one in Italic?

[Dennis]

I am a REALIST
The reality party yea thats it.
the No bullchit party
the closest I can find to that is
The Republicans

[NRAJOE]

Originally Posted by tommy

well i ain't votin for bush so i b a democrate dis yeya.

Idjit

[jerry]

American

[Rufus Rhastus J]

Well, I'm a right wing whack-O and rabid conservative. While they leave too much to be desired, and, are sniveling cowards with no back bone or sense of respect for themselves, the repubs are all we have...so I vote repub.

Originally Posted by tommy

well i ain't votin for bush so i b a democrate dis yeya.

ya ain't stoned are ya ? :insane:

[BattleRifleG3]

Originally Posted by AllenT

I'm a california Conservative.

BR3 - Why was the choice "Conservative" the only one in Italic?

Cause you picked it. Whatever option(s) you choose will subsequently appear in Italic.

[tommy]

yep show am.but i wasn't when i posted . i swear!!!i was clean.i just don't like bush. but i never said i was votin for kerry iether!!!