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<blockquote data-quote="inactive" data-source="post: 1303232" data-attributes="member: 7488"><p>I will borrow my own comments from another thread about Fallin (though they are nothing supporting or opposing her personally)</p><p></p><p>... ... ...</p><p></p><p>"Conservative" is not necessarily the same as a laissez faire, smaller government approach.</p><p></p><p>Conservative politics and judicial process have brought us government wiretaps (Olmstead v USA, USA PATRIOT Act), watered down 2nd Amendment court rulings (Heller, McDonald), deficit spending (Reagan budget, Bush budget), military conflicts with seemingly no purpose or end (Iraq, Afghanistan).</p><p></p><p>This is not to say that Liberal political thought has not committed the same offenses. This post is not to criticize a particular candidate, or even a particular political party or school of thought. I could list multiple injustices and inhumunaities that Liberal politics and thought have brought us (Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, FDR and LBJ budgets, opposition to civil rights acts, etc.) but I will omit that commentary them to keep this brief.</p><p></p><p>This post is meant to criticize partisan politics, and the general notion that most Americans have embraced the notion of selecting a candidate based on one particular issue, or party affiliation.</p><p></p><p>Labels such as Liberal or Conservative, Republican or Democrat, Statist or Anarchist, Socialist or Capitalist; those mean little to me. I cannot be painted with any one of those brushes as my ideology varies from issue to issue. I do my best to think independently on each topic and come to my own conclusions.</p><p></p><p>Please consider the totality of your candidate and his or her platform, and the implications those may have if he or she is in office. Do not become polarized or blinded by one particular issue. You candidate's stances or convictions on the smallest of issues, however seemingly slight or inconsequential, may well have a lasting impact on all of us.</p><p></p><p>We may have to compromise when selecting a candidate; ballot access should be the number one issue of any person who believes we are to remain a free and self-governing nation. Why should we possibly limit our own options when it comes to selecting the leadership of our country? Even given the other controls of the US political system (Electoral College, two houses of Congress, Judicial process, Executive Veto power, Constitutional Amendment process, etc.), we felt that limiting the pool of potential elected officials in most states was a good idea? Of course neither of the two dominant will support this, and we continue to let it happen! We should all be ashamed!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inactive, post: 1303232, member: 7488"] I will borrow my own comments from another thread about Fallin (though they are nothing supporting or opposing her personally) ... ... ... "Conservative" is not necessarily the same as a laissez faire, smaller government approach. Conservative politics and judicial process have brought us government wiretaps (Olmstead v USA, USA PATRIOT Act), watered down 2nd Amendment court rulings (Heller, McDonald), deficit spending (Reagan budget, Bush budget), military conflicts with seemingly no purpose or end (Iraq, Afghanistan). This is not to say that Liberal political thought has not committed the same offenses. This post is not to criticize a particular candidate, or even a particular political party or school of thought. I could list multiple injustices and inhumunaities that Liberal politics and thought have brought us (Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, FDR and LBJ budgets, opposition to civil rights acts, etc.) but I will omit that commentary them to keep this brief. This post is meant to criticize partisan politics, and the general notion that most Americans have embraced the notion of selecting a candidate based on one particular issue, or party affiliation. Labels such as Liberal or Conservative, Republican or Democrat, Statist or Anarchist, Socialist or Capitalist; those mean little to me. I cannot be painted with any one of those brushes as my ideology varies from issue to issue. I do my best to think independently on each topic and come to my own conclusions. Please consider the totality of your candidate and his or her platform, and the implications those may have if he or she is in office. Do not become polarized or blinded by one particular issue. You candidate's stances or convictions on the smallest of issues, however seemingly slight or inconsequential, may well have a lasting impact on all of us. We may have to compromise when selecting a candidate; ballot access should be the number one issue of any person who believes we are to remain a free and self-governing nation. Why should we possibly limit our own options when it comes to selecting the leadership of our country? Even given the other controls of the US political system (Electoral College, two houses of Congress, Judicial process, Executive Veto power, Constitutional Amendment process, etc.), we felt that limiting the pool of potential elected officials in most states was a good idea? Of course neither of the two dominant will support this, and we continue to let it happen! We should all be ashamed! [/QUOTE]
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