What are your political views and why?

[Matthew T.]

 

I am familiar with the Constitution Party.  If I am not mistaken, they used to be the Taxpayer Party.  I do agree with them on most issues, but the problem is that they don't have enough support to be included on the ballot in North Carolina, and their candidates don't have a chance of being elected to anything.  In my state, it is either Republican, Democrat or Libertarian, and that is it.  I wind up voting Republican because I wouldn't consider the Democrat and because the Libertarian never has enough support to be competitive. 

This is the problem!  However if they just got a small percentage of the vote -- something like 5 percent they could actually apply for taxpayer funded dollars to help finance their campaigning.

 

 

I agree with you, George. For me personally, my vote is no longer about "strategy". I have truly had it with the " a good enough reason to do something wrong" perspective. In the past I have NOT voted for people that better uphold the standards I'm looking for simply because they did not stand a chance to win. But now for me personally, I just want someone for which to vote that I can believe to do their best to restore this nation, no matter if they stand little chance at election. I will consider myself blessed just to have an opportunity to vote for the "right" person. The amount of "support" they have or don't have? That's all on US, the people, not the party. All any organized party can do is offer up someone that will be dedicated to uphold their platform. The Constitutional Party has done their job. Now I'll do mine.

 

I'm a bit disappointed in myself. George informed me this morning that this party has existed for years. I've known for a good while that "money" really does buy elections. Somehow, in the billions of dollars spent to elect the eVil in this country, very little must be available to the "right" people. I "try" to circumvent that system which serves literally to selling ourselves out to the enEmy for a price by paying close attention to the people our mass media outlets will NOT talk about. I am not paying close enough attention. I've let the media steer me away from the people that should be running this country by watching on my television what all that money buys: which is one lie after another.

 

I'm disappointed because I've been irresponsible. This party has existed for years, and this morning, a man that lives in Israel had to inform me of my own country's politics... a party I would have been supporting from it's beginning had I only known. So I am disappointed in myself, but also thankful that I might have someone I can vote for in the next election with a clear conscience afterward, win, lose or draw. From now on, I vote as responsibly as I can, adhering to a match of standards between the candidate and I, without thought to how much chance they have of winning. GOD, Himself will decide whether they should be elected, or not.

 

Again, my thanks for all this information...

Edited June 6, 2015 by Matthew T.

[Uncertain]

My views are based upon the view "leave me alone and I will leave you alone", thus I am very much Libertarian. I am against the war on drugs and the war on poverty.

Marriage should be strictly a religious sacrament and if two or more people want certain rights and benefits they can create a domestic partnership, and I could not care less who makes up that partnership.

The tax code should be destroyed and either a flat tax or a consumption tax implemented. No more social engineering via the tax code, no mortgage deduction, no education deduction, no marriage benefits, none of that.

If my neighbor wants to smoke pot on his back porch why should I care and why should I be able to enjoy a nice glass of Sarah if he cannot do his thing.

[MorningGlory]

 

Right of center libertarian, Pro-life, Pro-gun, Pro-Israel and strongly pro-free speech.  

 

Pretty much sums me up too, although I agree with all the posts so far. I would describe myself as a Christian, Conservative Libertarian.

 

 

[MorningGlory]

My views are based upon the view "leave me alone and I will leave you alone", thus I am very much Libertarian. I am against the war on drugs and the war on poverty.

Marriage should be strictly a religious sacrament and if two or more people want certain rights and benefits they can create a domestic partnership, and I could not care less who makes up that partnership.

The tax code should be destroyed and either a flat tax or a consumption tax implemented. No more social engineering via the tax code, no mortgage deduction, no education deduction, no marriage benefits, none of that.

If my neighbor wants to smoke pot on his back porch why should I care and why should I be able to enjoy a nice glass of Sarah if he cannot do his thing.

 

 

Not to go OT but what on earth is a 'nice  glass of Sarah;?

[Uncertain]

My views are based upon the view "leave me alone and I will leave you alone", thus I am very much Libertarian. I am against the war on drugs and the war on poverty.

Marriage should be strictly a religious sacrament and if two or more people want certain rights and benefits they can create a domestic partnership, and I could not care less who makes up that partnership.

The tax code should be destroyed and either a flat tax or a consumption tax implemented. No more social engineering via the tax code, no mortgage deduction, no education deduction, no marriage benefits, none of that.

If my neighbor wants to smoke pot on his back porch why should I care and why should I be able to enjoy a nice glass of Sarah if he cannot do his thing.

 

 

Not to go OT but what on earth is a 'nice  glass of Sarah;?

Silly auto-correct....should have been "Syrah", an amazing full bodied red wine.

[OneLight]

I don't follow any one party line.  I am an independent voter who votes for the one who is closest to my beliefs in how the country should go.

[Uncertain]

I no longer believe there is enough difference between the two major parties to justify the term "lesser of two evils".

Not voting for a party or candidate because you feel they cannot win becomes a self fulfilling prophecy and a losing proposition.

In my opinion the only hope this country has is the sacrifice an election or two in order to break the stranglehold the two parties have on the country.

Remember, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different outcome.

[MorningGlory]

 

 

My views are based upon the view "leave me alone and I will leave you alone", thus I am very much Libertarian. I am against the war on drugs and the war on poverty.

Marriage should be strictly a religious sacrament and if two or more people want certain rights and benefits they can create a domestic partnership, and I could not care less who makes up that partnership.

The tax code should be destroyed and either a flat tax or a consumption tax implemented. No more social engineering via the tax code, no mortgage deduction, no education deduction, no marriage benefits, none of that.

If my neighbor wants to smoke pot on his back porch why should I care and why should I be able to enjoy a nice glass of Sarah if he cannot do his thing.

 

 

Not to go OT but what on earth is a 'nice  glass of Sarah;?

Silly auto-correct....should have been "Syrah", an amazing full bodied red wine.

 

 

Thanks for clearing that up.  I would NEVER have figured it out.  And I hate auto correct too....especially on my IPhone!  I have sent some of the silliest gibberish in history since I got that thing.