As Super Tuesday Approaches: Part One of Three

Part One of Three:

People have asked me recently who they should vote for. My answer is, “well, I’m not sure who YOU should vote for, because that’s YOUR decision.”

However, I thought it would be useful to give you my low down and tell you how my thought process works.

First of all, looking at all of the candidates, much to my dismay, Ronald Reagan isn’t running this time. That’s probably obvious to everyone, but the fact is that RR was the head of a movement, the conservative movement. The basis of the movement was and is this:

Social Conservatism:
o Life is sacred. Whether that be the life of a mother of two kids or the life of an unborn child. Whether that be a 90 year old with Alzheimer’s or a baby that is going to be born with a mental handicap. All life is sacred because God made it sacred.
o This country was founded on Christian principles. That doesn’t make it the national religion, but it does mean that it is historically accurate to talk about it.
o The best thing for this country is to maintain the institution of marriage. One man, one woman. That’s the way it was always meant to be. It is not the job of the government to step in and redefine it.

Fiscal Conservatism:
o Lower taxes + lower government spending = Economic prosperity for all
o This is a Federalist system. You can go back and read 85 essays on how the founding fathers interpreted and meant by the constitution. Everyone should read it. The federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government.
o The government has certain things that it was created to do, most everything else can and should be cut or cut back.

National Defense Conservatism:
o The primary responsibility of the President and the federal government is to protect the people.
o We can negotiate with other countries only when we can negotiate from a position of strength. Basically, we need to be THE military might in the world. We need to know who our friends are and stand by them. We need to know who our enemies are and stand against them.

Now, like I said these are principles of a movement. No one man will follow them perfectly. Even Reagan himself had at least a hand full of mistakes on these principles, but by far followed them better than any other president that we have had.