MarkWarner08
Junior Chimp
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« on: September 30, 2007, 01:37:16 PM » |
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I'm a Teddy Roosevelt Republican. I'm skeptical of big business, a conservationist, and a strong support of national defense and American hegemony in our sphere of influence.
I believe in personal liberty, economic freedoms, but I support a government provided economic safety net for the least fortunate members of our society. I support legalizing "soft drugs," as a way to help stop the prison boom in America.
I'd reserve the death penalty for unrepentant murderers. I support Sisyphean labor for the sexual offenders; we should mentally torture those who violate the innocence of the weakest in our society.
Large corporations serve an essential purpose in our society, but they should be taxes at a higher rate and they should not receive welfare from the government.
Today I reside in the party of Andrew Jackson, tomorrow I may rejoin the party of Lincoln. If the Republican party rejects the nativists, the isolationists, the protectionists, and the supply siders, I will leave the Democrats. For now, I stay with the Democrats because they are closer to my socially progressive and economically centrist views.
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