Issues
ABORTION
–Pro-contraception
–Pro-life except in cases where a mother’s life is in danger and/or when incest/rape is involved (In instances of incest/rape, I defer to the discretion of the mother.)
–Abortion is a states’ rights issue
–NO to public funding for abortions
ECONOMY
–Free-market capitalist
–NO to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
–NO to TARP
–YES to exploring flat income tax or national sales tax alternatives to the progressive income tax
–YES to eliminating the death tax
EDUCATION
–YES to charter schools
–YES to Pledge of Allegiance in schools
–YES to vouchers
–YES to merit pay
ENERGY
–NO to cap-and-tax
–YES to alternative energy, including nuclear/wind/hydro
–YES to ANWR drilling
–YES to American energy independence
FOREIGN POLICY
–YES to a strong American defense
–NO to closing Guantanamo Bay
–YES to the 2007 surge in Iraq
–NO to civilian terrorist trials (YES to military tribunals)
GOVERNMENT
–small government, BIG DREAMS
–YES to “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”—Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
GUN RIGHTS
–Pro-Second Amendment
–Pro-NRA
HEALTH CARE
–YES to health care reform
–NO to the Obama plan
–YES to more affordable health care via competition across state lines
–YES to tort reform
IMMIGRATION
–YES to legal immigration
–YES to securing the border
–NO to amnesty for illegals
–YES to visas for skilled workers
–YES to declaring English the official language of the United States
WOMEN’S ISSUES
–YES to authentic feminism—personal responsibility, equal opportunity, equal work for equal pay, zero tolerance for sexism
–NO to public funding for Planned Parenthood
–NO to the National Organization for Women’s partisan politics
–Pro-woman is not synonymous with pro-abortion
