Keep Hope Alive - Second Front Porch Speech!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The front porch campaign continues

The Constitutional just wrapped up business on a critical component of the entire project and that is of course the complete legislative reboot. This is something that will facilitate not only the renewal of the game, but the devolution of policy on critical areas down to the regional level. As long as three years ago I was calling for the reworking of the relationship with the federal government, but it became clear that only a partial or full legislative restart would make possible this tremendous change in the way the system functions. Regions can and should have the responsibility to make important decisions and it is hight time we move in that direction and instead of constantly draining them of relevance and then wondering why they are inactive.

Eventhough tossing out the statutes is necessary, it is also important that we preserve the organization of the process, lest the trouble makers in our midst use it to derail the whole process. That is why I objected and outlined a process by which the implementation of the new constitution would necessarily have to springboard off of existing officials to have a chance. A similar form of this was rolled into an amendment which was then adopted.

This success illustrates, that eventhough the whole project is not finished, that eventhough we still have a long way to go, we must push forward. While the dissolutionists say we are better off dead, while the radicals say we are doomed to fail from their skyscraper penthouse, it is time for the true men of the people to stand up and say "Keep Hope Alive". Lets press on through the holiday slump and bring this project to a successful completion and implementation.

[Potus]

Since you want the support of the Right where do you stand on the following questions:

1) Do you support efforts to limit acts of abortion? If elected to the Senate, would you support heavy regulations on interstate abortions?

2) Do you support major changes to the tax system that ends egregious double taxation and encourages economic growth? Do you swear to oppose tax increases as a part of any new budget?

3) Do you support efforts to reduce government spending, create a fiscally responsible expenditure policy, and avoid spending that leads to our-of-control accumulation of debt?

4) Do you pledge to support a policy of improving our national defense and rebuilding our military? Do you pledge to defend our military against leftist efforts to defang our national defense?

5) Do you recognize the rights of the people to keep and bear arms in defense of their families, property, and freedoms?

These issues, the right to life, low taxes, limited spending, national defense, and the right to bear arms, are, taken in totality, and adequate measure of a candidate's commitment to the conservative movement.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

These issues, the right to life, low taxes, limited spending, national defense, and the right to bear arms, are, taken in totality, and adequate measure of a candidate's commitment to the conservative movement.

Says who? Surely not the man who consigned us to a veto-proof pro-TNF socialist majority.

What about protecting regional sovereignty, preserving the independence of the judiciary from butthurt radicals mad because they got cockbloced by the court, and opposing tyranncial excesses of the executive branch?

sbane is a pro-choice, tax raising moderate, but he has done more to protect critical checks on gov't tyranny then your IRC friends, many of whom were the ones out to destroy them. He actually helped to balance the budget as Senator. That counts a lot in my book. 

Yes, I am pro-life, pro-gun, support keeping the budget reasonable w/ taxes as low as practical, securing the borders and a strong national defense. At the same time I support background checks, immigration in general, oppose foreign interventionism (and waste in the Pentagon), oppose the war on drugs, and think we shouldn't be leaving poor people to die in the streets from lack of healthcare. I also think we should strive to minimize damage to the environment.

Conservatism is not about checking off boxes on some list from 1985, it is about a values set that values both freedom and the institutions that protect it, whether it be the military or the independent judiciary.

Right now the biggest priority facing this game is saving it from the crazed radicals who will stop at nothing to destroy it. I will push for Conservative principles where I can, like with the education bill I just introduced and the abortion bill I am presently working on with a colleague, but I will not win a misguided battle only to lose the war. The game and its survival and reform shall come first, Riley.