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1. How did you first become attracted to broadly “conservative” ideas? Was there a defining moment when your political beliefs became articulate? If so, was it based what you saw in the news, what particular politicians may have said, or simply observation of the world around you?

John F. Kennedy, his beliefs, ideas, and words today would make him a conservative, tax cuts, equality and civil rights, American exceptional ism, national defense and his devotion to the spread of the ideas of freedom and liberty to all nations would have made him a conservative if he was alive today. The rumors of affairs and drug abuse by liberals only prove how far Democrats will go to destroy their greats to strength their weaknesses.

2. On a related note, which element of conservatism is most important for you? Belief in family values, religious faith, patriotism, belief in the market, or something else entirely? I appreciate that these are all bound together to a certain extent, but if you had to isolate one element…

National Defense, you won't ever find a conservative trying destroy those that wear our uniforms and defend this country, the left exists for such things.

3. How do you account for the “rise of the right” since the 1970s? Has it always been there, was it a response to particular stimuli?

The "rise of the right" was caused by the abandonment of conservative ideas inside the Democratic party, once the leaders of the party decided to go a pure liberal agenda former democrat conservatives became republicans, Ronald Reagan was one, I was another.

4. Do you feel conservatism is dominant in American political culture today?

No. Conservatism lacks the will to force others to submit to it, political domination is a liberal concept, conservatives hope that their ideas will sway the day, they are unprepared to attack their enemies until they win.

5. If you could repeal any constitutional amendment tomorrow, which would you choose and why?

I can't think of one.

6. If you could pass any constitutional amendment tomorrow, what would it be and why?

A ban on gay marriage or rather a definition of marriage as being only between one man and one woman legally bound together by license, all other forms of "marriage" common law (living together) gay unions, bigamy and other pluralities of sexual conduct should be defined as legal or illegal by the Constitution.

7. “Splendid isolation” and “policeman of the world” are both descriptions which have been applied to American foreign policy in the twentieth century which is the better goal for the twenty-first century?

Neither, both were wrong, we can be neither isolated from the world or it's protector, I prefer a foreign policy where we do our best to spread those ideas that lead others to become what we are.

8. What role, if any, should government play in the economy?

It should barely profit from it.

9. Do you admire any philosophers/economists/statesmen of the past? If so, who and why?

Reagan, John Kennedy, and Smedley Darlington Butler, each defended this country in ways many have forgotten. Butler is all to often misrepresented for his views on war, when push came to shove he was always one of this country's greatest warriors and actually prevented a coup d'état against our government that most Americans have never heard about. Had he not succeeded America might have been part of the Axis during WWII.

10. The United States at the end of the twentieth century has been compared to Britain at the end of the nineteenth. Is this a reasonable comparison in your opinion, and if so, how can the US maintain its international position through the twenty-first century as Britain failed to do in the twentieth?

No, it isn't a reasonable comparison, Britain at the end of the nineteenth was at the height of it's empire, The United States has no empire to speak of, for that comparison to be true there would have to be indigenous people in the States planning to remove themselves from the whole.

It all goes back to the Boston tea party, though I have not been alive that long. Americans rejected tyranny and aristocracy. Europe still flirts with both. When are European going to liberty enough to preserve it, themselves?

Butler is all to often misrepresented for his views on war, when push came to shove he was always one of this country's greatest warriors and actually prevented a coup d'état against our government that most Americans have never heard about. Had he not succeeded America might have been part of the Axis during WWII.

OK, you've got my attention! Can you elaborate either via FReepmail or another post? Count me as one of the Americans who know nothing of this - but I'd like to learn more.