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5 - I vote for the most acceptably conservative, but least evil person, on every ballot. I do not care about their vocabulary or life style - as long as it is legal.

I vote for the most conservative person I think can actually win, especially in a runoff. I believe 100 percent of the time, the RINO is better than the Democrat.

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Finally - I believe this nation is on a rapid slide into unspeakable disaster. Our elections are unreliable, bordering on obviously fraudulent. Major corporative interests have achieved the status of oligarchy and we have sacrificed common decency and morality and compassion for gain of more political power.

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. That's a mantra no mater what party the politician "represents". Both the right and the left, daily, push for an expansion of government power... it's what they want to do with it / who they want to punish with it that is the only difference.

Small government conservatism is DEAD. And we are worse for that.

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Posted by LSUFanHouston

NOLA

Member since Jul 2009

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Posted on 2/1/23 at 5:52 pm to Speckhunter2012

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If I ever ran for congress I’d vote NO on anything that is not constitutional. I’d run on that. Any new law is taking rights away from some one somehow. Bastiat was right.

You'd have to finance your own campaign. The people that fund campaigns expessly do so in order to have new laws passed.

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Posted by Indefatigable

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Posted on 2/1/23 at 5:55 pm to Speckhunter2012

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If I ever ran for congress I’d vote NO on anything that is not constitutional.

The problem with this platitude is that 90% of the nations problems descend from a 100% constitutional activity—Congress delegating its authority to executive agencies.

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Posted by Speckhunter2012

Lake Charles

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Posted on 2/1/23 at 6:14 pm to Stexas

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Remember when legislators were statesmen who had every day jobs like business owners, lawyers, bankers, and the like? Serving and representing people from their districts while in session but working when not?

Yes sir. "The Radicalism of the American Revolution" - Gordon S. Wood.

Explains little r republicanism and the push back against Big Money influencing politics and the patriarchal system and much more.

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Posted by ChineseBandit58

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Posted on 2/1/23 at 6:42 pm to LSUFanHouston

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Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

THE axiom of politics - and begs for term limits.

I'd like to see a compromise - so that if there ever was a universally accepted 'unreplaceable man' that we wouldn't legally bar him from continuing -

BUT - he'd have to get an ever-increasing plurality to "win" - after 2 terms, would need 2/3 margin to win - after 4 terms, need 3/4 margin - etc (or something like that)

but first we'd have to establish bullet proof security in elections - one-day vote (open 24 hrs - national holiday) - in person voting only with photo ID - registration rolls cleaned every 5 years - re-register to maintain registration - some fundamental "poll test" to make sure you are not voting for "cutest boy" - clamp down on campaign financing ??? - make campaigns liable for lies ??? etc.

Perhaps re-institute duels for "affairs of honor" ????

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