Criteria to judge a Liberty Candidate

[boggie08]

I work with the Liberty League PAC. For those of you that do not remember us, we organize the Boston Tea Party in Faneuil Hall that was aired on C-Span.

http://libertyleaguepac.org/

One of the things we are thinking about now is trying to make a criteria for judging Liberty candidates. We need to give money to five candidates to become a multi-candidate pac. Therefore, we must have some criteria for judging candidates. The questions facing us are what issues are part of the liberty message and what are the most important issues.

I think the criteria should be as follows:
1. Privacy Rights
2. Second Amendment Rights
3. Noninterventionism
4. Lower Taxes

Please, if you have any ideas or criticisms, post them. I know I need help defining freedom candidates. Think also about how to judge incumbents versus new challengers.

 

[nate895]

I like that, but you should add a few things, such as states' rights. Also, you might want have a different criteria for judging state and local candidates, because things like noninterventionism really do not matter at the state level.

 

[MikeSmith]

I work with the Liberty League PAC. For those of you that do not remember us, we organize the Boston Tea Party in Faneuil Hall that was aired on C-Span.

http://libertyleaguepac.org/

One of the things we are thinking about now is trying to make a criteria for judging Liberty candidates. We need to give money to five candidates to become a multi-candidate pac. Therefore, we must have some criteria for judging candidates. The questions facing us are what issues are part of the liberty message and what are the most important issues.

I think the criteria should be as follows:
1. Privacy Rights
2. Second Amendment Rights
3. Noninterventionism
4. Lower Taxes

Please, if you have any ideas or criticisms, post them. I know I need help defining freedom candidates. Think also about how to judge incumbents versus new challengers.

What you have is decent, but I think maintaining a balanced budget is just as, if not more, important than lower taxes. It will become more and more difficult as the federal debt, and therefore interest on the debt, increases.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

1) Strict constructionist Constitutionalist as opposed to interpretive and modernizing.
2) Federal powers reductionism as opposed to Federal powers expansionism.
3) Individual as the ultimate sovereign as opposed to gov't as the ultimate sovereign.

 

[freedom-maniac]

Don't forget torture.

 

[Bradley in DC]

Sound money

 

[boggie08]

What about Iraq? Do Liberty candidates have to advocate immediate withdrawal from Iraq?

 

[nate895]

What about Iraq? Do Liberty candidates have to advocate immediate withdrawal from Iraq?

I thought that was in noninterventionism. For federal office, yes, state office, no.