I’ll agree with you on her vote with the Food Bills as being bad. I agree with Her voting for the Patriot Act. But if Rand has better ideas, I have no problem listen to him. But with his senate, rand’s ideas won’t pass. So looks like I’m up a creek without a paddle because with Obama every solution is a bad one. Michele would have been attacked for not voting for the Patriot Act eventually by conservatives when another terrorist attack is thwarted or happens.
Right now, as I said in another thread, unsure of who to trust that includes Palin, Bachmann, Rand. I like them a lot and support them 95% of the time. but now it is getting to where sometimes I get confused, confounded and unsure of where I stand because they sometimes surprise me.
Palin supported McCain in 2010 over J.D. Hayworth and Carly Fiorina when it should have been Chuck DeVore.
Bachmann attacked the 2010 census and voted for the Food bills now seems to be opposing Rand and Col. West on the Patriot Act.
Rubio supports Amnesty.
West voted not to de-fund Health Care by piece meal, when that better than nothing.
Christie supports Global Warming, banning all Guns, and collective bargaining.
Rand is all over the place on foreign policy and skipped Netanyahu’s Congress speech.
Cain doesn’t support auditing the Fed, as he used to work with the Fed, and supported not releasing Osama pictures of his death.
and Paul Ryan voted for tarp and auto bailouts among other thing he did under Bush. Plus nobody looking at Pat Toomey’s budget plan. Just Paul Ryan’s. Like Toomey doesn’t exist.
It’s a pickle, isn’t it?
Who out there will get this monstrously huge federal behemoth off our backs? I really think I will vote for anyone who will break up the status quo. This lockstep Federal entity is out of control. States need to re assert themselves. The power needs to be de-centralized again.
I think that is really it - it’s what Jefferson believed in, de-centralization.
I also think term limits could far into breaking up the entrenched power base - get some actual real people in office again.
I, for one, would never have attacked any politician for voting against the Patriot Act. Remember: Protectionism is the first step in Socialism followed by Communism. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and when the federal government is granted, BY THE VOTERS, the authority to wiretap ANYONE they suspect as being a terrorist, or threat; when our federal government is granted cart blanche power to detain ANYONE they “believe” to be a suspect, and when our own government believe that torture is the same as interrogation, we are well on our way to a Communist society.
Have you read 1984? Have you read about the rise of Nazi, Germany, and Lenin’s utopia, Communist China, Fidel Castro? Well, if you failed to recognize the similarities between these regimes and our current American socio-political landscape, you must pay closer attention.
As the saying goes, “Politics makes strange bedfellows”. You said:
“...but now it is getting to where sometimes I get confused, confounded and unsure of where I stand because they sometimes surprise me.”
I understand your position, but politics is not so cut and dry. I can only share with you the way in which I look at a candidate.
There are certain issues that are non-negotiables: abortion, our 2nd amendment rights, military defense, marriage, our relationship to Israel, our Constitutional rights, which include our free of religion. If a candidate supports legislation which violates any of these issues, I examine their record and search for any patterns which are contrary to a conservative platform.
I realize that there are in which a candidate must with break from the general political stance, but if I see a pattern which contradicts their conservative principles consistently, I think twice about support that individual.
Bachmann has supported key legislation which flies in the face of a truly Conservative platform. I can’t, in good conscience, support her.
I’m withholding any support for one candidate. I am watching Sarah Palin and especially Herman Cain closely. We’ll see how the race shapes up in the months to come.