Mit would make a fine Secretary of the Treasury....I don't even want to see Rick Perry run again. We need a leader...(wayyyyyyy to many)....need to cut this herd down to size! NO EARLY VOTING!...when the time comes.
Posted on 01/22/2015 7:55:22 AM PST by Shery
Seeing that the first debates have been scheduled for August of this year, I thought it was not too early to start elaborating the character traits we are looking for in a candidate for president, as well as any other political offices we'll be voting for this cycle. It is just as important to remember that taking more seats in each state's legislature helps conservatism to grow. I will start the list with a few ideals and you can add. Maybe I can rewrite the list in a couple weeks or so and we can examine the comments others have made in regard to our "list" and have some conversations about them.
1. Does not support the current climate theories that man-made products are over-heating earth's climate and will destroy the earth as we know it.
2. Free market advocate
3. Small government advocate. Supports states determining what is best for them, returning to states the power to run welfare, healthcare, education, etc. in a manner that suits their constituency....Welfare reform, if still carried by the federal government, returning to the reforms set out in the early 1990s, requiring able-bodied men and women to prove that they had tried to get work, but nothing in their skill level was available.
4. Supports abolition of the 17th amendment, giving back to the states' legislatures the right to elect the 2 senators who will represent them. Supports (enthusiastically) term limits for all elected officials.
5. Abolish the IRS and establish a fair tax or flat tax with a possible tax on luxury items. States will still decide how they want to get their own revenue.
6. Abolish the EPA and other federal agencies that have powers outside Congressional prevue and have become unnecessary. Return the regulatory power of every federal agency to Congress. No regulations can be made without the approval of Congress.
7. Securing our borders, limiting immigration, with established periods (years) that would limit further immigration, giving time for those who have recently come to assimilate. Will enforce the immigration laws n the books already.
8. A return to the founding ideals that God gives us our freedoms, which the government cannot take away. Put God back into the public domain, which would include free speech about God and worship of Hm freely without fear of being sued, and the freedom to refuse business or action that would breach your Conscience. In other words, a return to sanity and throwing out political correctness.
9. No special classes of interest groups that have rights over any other group.
10. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Civil unions could be given for others. Marriage, by definition is for a man and woman to pro-create, something that gay couples cannot do.
11. Suports the Article V process fully so that when the federal government refuses to act in behalf of its citizens, they have the freedom to act as delegated. In other words, they will not act against the states rights to address grievances or the overreach of the federal government.
12. Will only use the "executive pen" for emergencies or things that truly require prompt action...or when Congress has turned a deaf ear to the Constitutionally provided civil liberties of the electorate, and not to make fiat law.
ALSO...this is a little different, but for the national forums and debates to have conservative (not conservative-leaning) questioners and moderators. The left should not have total control, nor should they get to set the narrative exclusively.
These are a few things I could think of just off the cuff. I'm sure there are plenty of others. For once, I'd like for us to establish the narrative, so to speak, for the qualities we are looking for in a candidate. It would probably help if we held our own surveys and polls monthly and put the results in to Reince Priebus' hands. Another thing for Reince Priebus is this. IF we, the people, are ever going to trust the republicans again, then they cannot refuse to give funds to conservative candidates to squeeze them out. Enough of this political control game to control the establishment's hold over the party. If they refuse support of conservative candidates (political blackmail), then we will continue to refuse to support the national party and give our support ONLY to those candidates who are conservative. We want more transparency in the GOP and its dealings with all GOP candidates.
Everything opposite BHO and his socialist cronies. Ted Cruz sums it up well...
Someone who will stand up to the media to battle the free use of the MSM to promote liberal agenda/quash conservative agenda points.
Dump the u.n. in the east river. Exec Memo all BS gun laws off the books. Commit to either winning “confrontations” overseas or DO NOT send our kids there. Return to “Sticks and stone may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” and end the perpetually offended line of BS. Drill baby, drill. :>}
Backbone.
My #1 qualification is: LEADER who loves, respects, seeks GOD and inspires the rest of us to do the same!
I’d rather have someone who’d fight and only achieve one goal than have someone who said he believed the right principles but either wouldn’t fight or had no fight in him.
Mit would make a fine Secretary of the Treasury....I don't even want to see Rick Perry run again. We need a leader...(wayyyyyyy to many)....need to cut this herd down to size! NO EARLY VOTING!...when the time comes.
1) Will run the executive branch in strict conformance with the United States Constitution; and will veto ANY legislation passed by congress which represents an overreach of the powers of the legislative branch.
All the rest is just window-dressing.
What I’m looking for in a candidate for 2016? No R’s. Period.
Someone who truly and genuinely loves this country.
An outsider ... And a real conservative — with guts.
13. Media savvy (i.e. someone who will not allow himself to be set-up for media destruction a la Sarah Palin in 2008)
I’m sure some would debate the order of importance of these things but the content of the list looks good.
Exactly.
We will not find a ruthless SOB in the Republican Party.
A comment on the #3 item. I have often wondered what it would be like if this whole mess was redone with respect to tax revenue. Tax only at the state or local level,meet the local & state needs First. What’s left can go to the feds(in case there IS any left),but it makes no sense to send money to D.C. & then get it doled back after they waste most of it. As a side effect,it should mean the funds would filter through fewer hands,& there should be some savings there. A lot of federal offices could be outright eliminated as it would be done at state/local level,& with much less duplication than exists now.
Respectfully, I suggest that being "media savvy" is chasing smoke. Savvy folks know that a) the media speaks ONLY for the media and b) the media will do its best to destroy ANY Republican candidate.
Over the years, I have read tens of thousands of anonymous reader comments on MSM and left-leaning news site discussion boards, ranging from LA Times to Salon Magazine and yahoo. Virtually ever time there's a pro-Obama or pro-leftist story, individual voices at a rate of about two to one, state clearly that they RESENT:
a) "liberals" and consider them idiots ("liberals" is the word most universally used, not "socialists" or "leftists" or "communists" or "statists" or any other semantically fussy alternative)
b) Barack Obama
c) the "liberal bias" of the mainstream media
Todd Palin stated recently that he thinks folks in the American "heartland" see through the liberal Hollywood's take on Chris Kyle and "American Sniper," and attendance in the theaters confirms his opinion. Palin KNOWS that most Americans ARE media savvy.
To me, a "media savvy" candidate will be one who understands that the leftist media presumes to speak for all Americans, but in fact speaks ONLY for the left-dominated media. To me, a "media savvy" candidate will understand no matter what, the media will use WHATEVER that candidate says to try to destroy them, and that MOST Americans will see right through it.
To me, the most important quality in a candidate is that the person have faith and confidence in Americans.
Clearly, the left in both parties, Republican and Democrat, hold most Americans in contempt. The left in both parties, Republican and Democrat, will cheat to get power, which is the embodiment of contempt for Americans, and the left also thinks Americans are too childish and stupid and immoral to take care of themselves and hence need government to oversee everything from health care to how private citizens and business interact with openly-declared homosexuals.
THAT is the contempt that the left in both parties has for Americans.
Reagan believed in Americans, he held them in high regard. I will be looking for that same confidence and wisdom in MY candidate for 2016, whoever it turns out to be.
I, for one, did not want to see Bucky.
... the character traits we are looking for in a candidate for president, as well as any other political offices we'll be voting for this cycle.
Ok, I know someone who's going to run for Congress in 2016. Let's see how he stacks up.
1. Does not support the current climate theories that man-made products are over-heating earth's climate and will destroy the earth as we know it.
He knows that 'climate change' is a hoax perpetrated by the progressives to further seize power in your life.
2. Free market advocate
He has stated that the government has no authority under Article I, Section 8 to pick winners and losers in the economy.
3. Small government advocate. Supports states determining what is best for them, returning to states the power to run welfare, healthcare, education, etc. in a manner that suits their constituency....Welfare reform, if still carried by the federal government, returning to the reforms set out in the early 1990s, requiring able-bodied men and women to prove that they had tried to get work, but nothing in their skill level was available.
He is a firm believer in the Tenth Amendment.
4. Supports abolition of the 17th amendment, giving back to the states' legislatures the right to elect the 2 senators who will represent them. Supports (enthusiastically) term limits for all elected officials.
He has stated publicly that he is for repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment.
5. Abolish the IRS and establish a fair tax or flat tax with a possible tax on luxury items. States will still decide how they want to get their own revenue.
He has also stated publicly that the Sixteenth Amendment should be repealed.
6. Abolish the EPA and other federal agencies that have powers outside Congressional prevue and have become unnecessary. Return the regulatory power of every federal agency to Congress. No regulations can be made without the approval of Congress.
He strongly supports returning the government to its constitutional boundaries under Article 1, Section 8. The Congress has unconstitutionally transferred power to the Executive and all such legislation should be overturned.
7. Securing our borders, limiting immigration, with established periods (years) that would limit further immigration, giving time for those who have recently come to assimilate. Will enforce the immigration laws n the books already.
He has stated that all immigration should be suspended until our borders are secured and all existing, legal immigrants have been assimilated. Enforcement of our existing laws, such as penalizing businesses who hire criminal invaders and preventing all levels of government from providing assistance to criminal invaders, will drive criminal invaders to self-deport.
8. A return to the founding ideals that God gives us our freedoms, which the government cannot take away. Put God back into the public domain, which would include free speech about God and worship of Hm freely without fear of being sued, and the freedom to refuse business or action that would breach your Conscience. In other words, a return to sanity and throwing out political correctness.
He agrees with the Founders and Framers that our Rights come from God and that our Republican form of government can only be sustained by a moral People. He believes that it is the responsibility of our representatives to set a moral example.
9. No special classes of interest groups that have rights over any other group.
See above about Article I, Section 8 and returning our government to its constitutional boundaries. We are all citizens of the United States and should be equal in the eyes of the law.
10. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Civil unions could be given for others. Marriage, by definition is for a man and woman to pro-create, something that gay couples cannot do.
He is a devout Roman Catholic. He believes that words have meaning. He opposed the destruction of the institution of marriage.
.11. Suports the Article V process fully so that when the federal government refuses to act in behalf of its citizens, they have the freedom to act as delegated. In other words, they will not act against the states rights to address grievances or the overreach of the federal government.
Again, Article 1, Section 8 and the Tenth Amendment lay clear boundaries for what Powers were delegated to the federal government by the People and the States. All Powers not so enumerated are not federal and belong to the States or the People.
12. Will only use the "executive pen" for emergencies or things that truly require prompt action...or when Congress has turned a deaf ear to the Constitutionally provided civil liberties of the electorate, and not to make fiat law.
He believes that the Constitution does not enable the Executive to make law. This Power is specifically limited to the Congress under Article I, Section 1. Existing unconstitutional executive actions should be overturned and the legislative Power returned exclusively to the Congress.
If you are interested, he'll be making a formal announcement in the next couple of weeks.
James R. McClure Jr.
Jeffersonian Anti-Federalist Democrat
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