What is your main issue?

[iamse7en]

1. Money
2. War

The two engines of The State.

 

[speciallyblend]

1) Foreign Policy, the rest fall into place with this etc like spending,taxes
2) Individual Liberty -i think covers many of the bases we support ,even pro-life,failed drug war and much more!!

 

[speciallyblend]

Monetary Policy permeates just about every issue. From foreign policy to health care to fostering a vibrant economic environment that will bring sound investment, job creation, healthy competition; all of these are sub-issues impacted by failed central economic planning. Beyond that, I believe a small government means less intrusion into my personal life giving me the freedom to make choices that do no impede others from making their own choices. Everyone must be held accountable to the same set of laws. No special privilege for individuals or corporations.

Money and the Rule of Law.

ron paul blimpin

 

[kpfareal]

5 way tie?

Pretty close. I would say #1 is the real #1, then a 4-way tie from 2-5.

 

[JK/SEA]

NFL possible strike
Who will win American Idol
and if the Earth will be hit by a GRB.

 

[ctnjason]

1) promoting a truly free market 100% free of government regulation
2) empire building

 

[Freedom 4 all]

1. Reduce war spending
2. End drug laws
3. End police abuse
4. Gun rights
5. monetary police

 

[mello]

Reducing our debt.
Changing our foreign policy.

 

[Andrew-Austin]

Education. Ending government indoctrination, enabling more fulfilling and effective free market solutions.

1. Money
2. War

The two engines of The State.

I'd say the public school system is also an engine of the state.

 

[osan]

What are the one or two most important issues for selecting a candidate to support? The non-negotiables, if you will.

For me:
1. Pro-life is a must
2. Reduce spending

I agree with you on 2, but 1 will get you into a war with many. Attempting to force this upon people at this stage of the game is asking to get yourself killed, very literally. I will add that such force lies in diametric opposition to the principles of liberty. You may not like abortion - I don't much care for it, especially as a means of contraception (which I find utterly reprehensible), but it is an issue for the individual to decide each for herself. If you do not understand why this is so, then I would have to submit that you are not an advocate of liberty but of pretty slavery. Pretty to you, that is.

Hold your values on that issue close to your heart, live by the dictates of your conscience, and demand the world respect them. In return, the price you pay is the same respect of the decisions of others even when what they do fills you with horror. Neither you nor I not anyone else is to impose judgment upon others on such issues. The slope is sudden, slippery, and steep. Beware.

 

[osan]

But to answer your question:

1. Full and proper recognition of ALL human rights for ALL people
2. Securing our borders, both physically, psychologically, culturally, and politically. Most of the rest of the world is wholly uninterested in human freedom. We must, therefore, as a practical matter of survival wall ourselves off in certain respects from the rest of the world because if we do not we run the significant risk of losing a sufficient concentration of liberty-minded people. Once that happens, the future is completely up for grabs and it will not look good for those who resist slavery. I am not speaking of isolationism as is commonly understood, but of the preservation of the core foundational precepts, attitudes, habits, and predispositions that enable and maintain the environment of personal liberty and national sovereignty. The rest of the world be damned.

 

[erowe1]

I agree with you on 2, but 1 will get you into a war with many. Attempting to force this upon people at this stage of the game is asking to get yourself killed, very literally. I will add that such force lies in diametric opposition to the principles of liberty. You may not like abortion - I don't much care for it, especially as a means of contraception (which I find utterly reprehensible), but it is an issue for the individual to decide each for herself. If you do not understand why this is so, then I would have to submit that you are not an advocate of liberty but of pretty slavery. Pretty to you, that is.

Hold your values on that issue close to your heart, live by the dictates of your conscience, and demand the world respect them. In return, the price you pay is the same respect of the decisions of others even when what they do fills you with horror. Neither you nor I not anyone else is to impose judgment upon others on such issues. The slope is sudden, slippery, and steep. Beware.

What drivel. Unborn babies don't choose to be killed. If it's ever ethical to use force to protect a human life, then it doesn't all of a sudden become unethical when that life is a little baby who can't do anything to protect herself.

 

[rholl]

Dismantling the Empire
Monetary Policy
Individual Liberty

 

[CaliforniaMom]

Prolife, and against war.

 

[AuH20]

But to answer your question:

1. Full and proper recognition of ALL human rights for ALL people
2. Securing our borders, both physically, psychologically, culturally, and politically. Most of the rest of the world is wholly uninterested in human freedom. We must, therefore, as a practical matter of survival wall ourselves off in certain respects from the rest of the world because if we do not we run the significant risk of losing a sufficient concentration of liberty-minded people. Once that happens, the future is completely up for grabs and it will not look good for those who resist slavery. I am not speaking of isolationism as is commonly understood, but of the preservation of the core foundational precepts, attitudes, habits, and predispositions that enable and maintain the environment of personal liberty and national sovereignty. The rest of the world be damned.

Great post in regard to point #2. We're simply outgunned from a global perspective. The rest of world loves their slavery. America was once a sanctuary from the madness in the world. But it didn't take long for the viruses across the Atlantic Ocean to infiltrate and corrupt our entire population.

 

[scottditzen]

1. Pro life
2. Pro individual liberty (stop drug war, emphasis on personal responsibility, etc.)
3. Sensible environmental policy (cleaner water, conservation, incentives to help our cities and keep rural areas rural)

 

[pcosmar]

Liberty
It started (for me) with 2nd amendment and civil liberties issues.
But it all boils down to Liberty.

 

[Brett85]

1. Ending abortion
2. Returning to a more humble foreign policy

 

[Travlyr]

1. End debasement of currency
2. Individual homestead of all available federal lands

Legalize Industrial Hemp

 

[Wren]

1) Foreign Policy
2) Individual liberty
3) Monetary Policy