| VoteMatch Responses
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| VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background) |
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| Strongly Opposes Abortion is a woman's right | Abortion: The unborn have rights; defund the abortion industry Abortion: Abortion is greatest evil since slavery Abortion: Strictly pro-life Supreme Court & Vice Pres. nominees |
| Strongly Opposes Require companies to hire more women & minorities | Civil Rights: End racial busing, quotas, & contract set-asides Civil Rights: Racial & gender entitlements are Govt-sponsored prejudice Civil Rights: Color-blind laws: end trendy bigotry of diversity |
| Strongly Opposes Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws | Civil Rights: Gay pride equated with moral decline and cultural decadence Civil Rights: Opposes gay rights agenda in its entirety Civil Rights: All lifestyles are not equal; some ideas are wrong Civil Rights: No gay VP; no gays in Cabinet; it’s “a disorder” |
| Supports Organized Prayer In Public Schools | Civil Rights: Take country back from ACLU; allow school prayer & gay bans Education: Bring God and prayer back to public schools Families & Children: Home schooling teaches children values Education: For school prayer; against multiculturalism Principles & Values: Traditional morality fights culture war against secularists |
| Opposes More Federal Funding for Health Coverage | Health Care: Self-finance Medicare by self-investing Health Care: Against national health system & federal takeover Health Care: Supports catastrophic health insurance, privately paid |
| Supports Privatize Social Security | Social Security: Option for private investment, with public fall-back Social Security: Put Medicare taxes into personal insurance accounts Social Security: Medicare: no socialized system; no expansion |
| Supports Parents Choose Schools via Vouchers | School Choice: Support home schooling but don’t give up on public schools School Choice: For vouchers, charter schools, & homeschooling School Choice: Decisions by parents and teachers, not bureaucrats |
| Supports Death Penalty | Crime: Prompt death penalty would stop mass murderers |
| Supports Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws | Crime: Stop gun rampages by requiring press silence Crime: Clemency for Puerto Rican terrorists is “shameful” Families & Children: Littleton due to poisoned culture declaring “God is dead” |
| Strongly Supports Absolute right to gun ownership | Gun Control: Stop using heinous crimes to take away 2nd amendment rights Gun Control: Faithfully protects 2nd Amendment, except for felons Gun Control: Columbine shootings due to Hollywood, not guns |
| Strongly Supports Make Income Tax Flatter & Lower | Tax Reform: Flat 16% tax on earnings over $35,000, plus import tariffs Tax Reform: Dump our tyrannical 7 million-word tax code Tax Reform: Budget surplus and import fees go to tax cuts |
| Strongly Opposes Immigration helps our economy-encourage it | Immigration: A million immigrants a year: “we’re gonna lose our country” Immigration: Most pressing foreign policy crisis: illegal immigration Immigration: Immigration “time out”; reduce to 250,000 per year Free Trade: Secure our porous borders; teach immigrants English |
| Strongly Opposes Support & Expand Free Trade | Free Trade: WTO is first step toward world government Free Trade: NAFTA & GATT sold out America’s workers Free Trade: Unapologetic about protectionism |
| Strongly Supports Link Human Rights to trade with China | China: China trade pact is a complete sellout China: Don’t aggravate Beijing, but don’t appease Free Trade: More import tariffs: 10% on Japan; 20% on China China: China: Shame the regime & end trade concessions |
| Strongly Supports More Spending on Armed Forces Personnel | Defense: Pay soldiers more; end “social labs”; exit Balkans |
| Opposes Reduce spending on Missile Defense ("Star Wars") | Defense: Build SDI; “Retrench and rearm” |
| Strongly Opposes Continue Foreign Aid to Russia, Israel, & others | Foreign Policy: Struggle against emerging world government Foreign Policy: Practice “masterly inactivity,” not “entangling alliances” Foreign Policy: Withdraw from UN; Kyoto Treaty; Rome Treaty Foreign Policy: End foreign aid; withdraw from most of IMF |
| Strongly Opposes Spend Resources to Stop Global Warming | Environment: Energy independence by developing Caspian pipelines Environment: Explore ANWR; reconsider nuclear power & oil import fee Environment: Opposes raising CAFE standards Environment: Opposes Kyoto Treaty because it regulates US most |
| Supports Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it | Drugs: Drug usage is not a victimless crime; so keep marijuana ban Drugs: Open Mexican border invites drug trafficking |
| Supports Allow churches to provide welfare services | Welfare & Poverty: Welfare is a state and local responsibility |