Analysis of Ron Paul

While doing this I have found that whether an item falls under "Positive" or "Negative" is largely subject to my own opinion. Although I am trying to think on a larger scale about them, about how they would affect America.


MY ANALYSIS OF RON PAUL:

POSITIVES:-Believes that abortion is murder. Period.
-Opposes using tax dollars to fund organizations that promote abortion.
-Supports only appointing judges who refuse to legislate from the bench. 
- Wants to reduce size of government and start paying down our debt instead of adding to it
-Wants to audit the Federal Reserve.
-Opposes National ID card.
-Believes we should legalize drugs and prostitution.
-Voted YES on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions.


-Opposes “hate crimes” legislation
-Supports closing the Department of Education.
-Wants to encourage homeschooling and private school via tax writeoff
-Voted NO on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges.
 -Voted no on No Child Left Behind.
-Voted NO on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution.
-Wants to cut all foreign aid to the Middle East.
-Wants us to stop interfering in other countries business. 
-Opposes nation-building, world policing and pre-emptive war.
-Wants to withdraw from UN.
-Wants to block international highway from Canada to Mexico.
-Opposes North American Union.
-Wants to end government secrecy and restore openness of information.
-Wants to abolish Homeland Security.
-Opposes mandated health insurance.
-Wants to amend Constitution to remove aliens’ birthright citizenship.
-Wants to make English the national language.
-Wants to replace Social Security with Personal Retirement Accounts.
-Opposes raising taxes and in some cases wants to do away with them.
-Opposes applying broadcast indecency rules to cable networks.
-Voted against going to war with Iraq.
-Voted YES on providing $70 million for Section 8 Housing vouchers.

NEGATIVES:-Vote on an amendment banning adoptions in District of Columbia by gays or other individuals who are not related by blood or marriage.
-Opposes death penalty
-Vote no an amendment that would reduce the funding for violent offender imprisonment.
-Voted NO on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.
-Voted NO on establishing nationwide AMBER alert system for missing kids. This bill would have also given a mandatory life sentence to two time child sex offenders.
-Voted NO on prohibiting lawsuits about obesity against food providers.
-Believes that if the economy were better there wouldn't be an "immigration problem".
-Believes it is impractical to round up all illegal aliens.
-Doesn't believe a border fence is important.
-Voted no on extending unemployment.
-Voted no on increasing minimum wage.


MY THOUGHTS: Ron Paul is primarily a constitutionalist. Though his Positives list is far longer his some of his Negatives are BIG Negatives. Based on his Negatives I sincerely hope that he does not get the Republican nod.

Herman Cain Analysis

While doing this I have found that whether an item falls under "Positive" or "Negative" is largely subject to my own opinion. Although I am trying to think on a larger scale about them, about how they would affect America.

MY ANALYSIS OF HERMAN CAIN:

POSITIVES-Believes that abortion should be illegal even in cases of rape and incest.
-Supports defunding Planned Parenthood
-Wants to cut spending to bureaucracies and special interests. And get rid of every single tax in favor of a 23% tax straight off the top.
-Wants to cut whole programs instead of snipping at their budgets
-Opposes ObamaCare and any form of forced health insurance.
-Believes we should never pre-emtively go to war. That we shouldn't be concerned with foreign civil wars and unrest because its none of our business. But that we should watch our enemies closely and be prepared at all costs for impending attacks on the U.S.
-Wants to become fully energy independent by using our own resources.
-Sees through the liberal leftist bullshit and knows they are purposely destroying America.
-On foreign policy he will bring in experts and get their input.
-Wants to secure our borders with technology and guns, even armed agents if need be.
-Wants to make it easier for businesses to hire legal citizens. And wants to enforce the law by deporting all illegal aliens.
-Wants to promote the path to citizen ship that we already have instead of granting the illegals amnesty.
-Supports letting the states invoke their right to protect themselves (Ex: the government needs to quit shutting down Arizona at every turn in its attempt to protect itself from illegals)
-Opposes raising debt ceiling and instead wants to pay off our debt.
NEGATIVES- Opposes gay marriage
-Doesn't believe we should release the osama death photos.
-Supported the bank bailouts
-Doesn't feel there is a need to audit the Federal Reserve. Though, at least, he doesn't object to it.

MY THOUGHTS: Herman Cain is a businessman and will run America like a business. Which is exactly how it should be done. He has a very strong plan to fix our country and one term of Herman Cain would make our country look like heaven compared to what it is now. If he is gets the Republican nod I will vote for him with a smile. He is 2nd on my list only to Donald Trump.