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[SittinYonder]

Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo stands out as another strong advocate of liberty and limited government. He has voiced opposition to the punitive and highly inconvenient income tax, proposing instead to replace it with a flat-rate tax or a national sales tax.

On Gun Control:
”I fully and completely support the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The failure of the ACLU to defend this right, and of federal courts to make the second amendment binding on the states, as they have made the first amendment and most others, testifies to their intellectual hypocrisy.”
-Tom Tancredo

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[SittinYonder]

Huckabee is on the wrong side of Amnesty and his actions as governor speak louder than his words on taxes and spending.

Duncan Hunter is the third limited government, conservative who should have been included over Huckabee, IMO.

And probably Ron Paul should have been left out. His unwillingness to take the fight to an enemy who wants us dead simply for being infidels is not the leadership we need today.

[bnelson44]

Audio: John Gibson goes thermonuclear on Truthers (and Ron Paul supporters) arrested at GOP debate

http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/iblog/C1481761327/E20070606192831/

[The_Eaglet]

This provides good information about the strengths of each of these candidates with reasonable critique.

Thank you for sharing this.

[Sloth]

No mention of Huckabee’s nanny-state smoking ban, I see.

[DreamsofPolycarp]

The conservative movement has been hijacked, and it is time we admitted it. It is truly pathetic that three of the best men in the race are second tier candidates, and that the present LEADERS of the Republican party group are frauds and interlopers. They see nothing wrong with big, centralized government, as long as they are in charge instead of liberal Democrats. Quite frankly, if you were to put their views and ideas on paper and lay them beside the views and ideas of a liberal Democrat, you would have a hard time telling which ideas were the liberal Democrat's and which came from the neo-conservatives.

It is high time we stripped off the makeup, and called these people what they are. They are national neo-socialists, otherwise known as fascists. I myself like the appellative "pseudocon." It is nothing but government socialism in the ideas of big business. Big government and big business is okay as long as "conservatives" run it. They are the bag men for large corporations. They talk "capitalism," but in reality they are advocates of mercantilism, which is a far far different thing What we have in these pseudo conservatives is a bunch of liberal statists, who attempt to rescue their socialist records by being militarists, as well. They are NOT conservatives, at least not in the traditional sense of the word. These new "pseudocons" will mouth traditionalist rhetoric, but they continue to expand federal power, limit our freedoms and liberties, accept as normal the perversions that go on in our society, and hide behind the "terrorist threat" to suck us deeper and deeper into a worldwide military empire. George Bush is at the top of my list on this one and there is no difference between him and Romney, Guiliani, and McCain. They are nothing but pseudocons. These three others (and Duncan Hunter) are all good, but they have some weak spots. Don't kid yourself about Duncan Hunter. He may not be a pseudocon, but he is a PROFLIGATE spender. Mike Huckabee is a sincere evangelical, but he believes in using the state's power to enforce evangelically derived values on personal matters. Tom Tancredo is pretty much a one trick pony (immigration). Ron Paul is not exactly toeing the line on the Iraq war. However, each of these men at least give some semblance of respect for the idea that we are ruled by LAW. That idea should be first and foremost. Otherwise, we just swap one form of fascism for another.

I no longer believe we have to vote for false conservatives as the "lesser of two evils" because I don't see a damn bit of difference between the two. The absolute hysteria with which a statesman like Ron Paul is attacked (whether you agree with his stand on the Iraq war or not) is simply evidence that the pseudocons are firmly ensconced in the "conservative" movement. The pseudocons can screech and rant, but they are simply false prophets. Underneath, they are simply socialist fascists, nothing more. I like Fred Thompson as well, but he ain't in the race yet. People who are PRINCIPLED like them need our support, and the pseudocons should, frankly, be spurned.

I have had it with the pseudocons, who gave us 8 years of W. I will "throw my vote away" on an independent or third-party candidate rather than vote "evil" or "evil light."

Maybe we can rescue the word "conservative" and restore it to mean something more than a mercantilist, militarist, socialist statist. Otherwise, when asked if I am a "conservative" I will have to start answering "hell no, and I am proud of it."

[Bigun]

I am VERY sorry to be the one to inform you that you are incorrect when you say that "Mike Huckabee wishes to simplify the U. S. income tax structure by supporting a flat tax...".

What Mike Huckabee in fact supports, and I entirely agree with him on the point, is the throwing of the ENTIRE income tax code onto the ash heap of history, where it properly belongs, and replacing it with a point of retail sale only sales tax.

You can learn all you would ever need to know about the proposal that Mike Huckabee endorses at the Americans for Fair Taxation website.

[johnreed]