Posted by
Playful Walrus on Friday, December 29, 2006 12:44:59 PM
Wanted: Presidential Candidate
Required Qualifications:
1. Believes in a higher power - an omniscient, judging authority and future state of rewards and punishments for actions in this life.
2. Has integrity, ethics, morality, and discipline as demonstrated in both professional and personal life. Owns up to and has worked to correct mistakes.
3. Is a proven leader, manager, and appointer as demonstrated from previous experience.
4. Takes national security seriously, including control of borders/ports, and willing to use intelligence, covert operations, and military force to kill our enemies, break their things, and disrupt their threats to the U.S.
5. Recognizes that Islamofascism is incompatible with and a threat to Western civilization and the American way of life.
6. Recognizes Israel as beneficial to American interests.
7. Accepts the Constitution as the highest law of the land, not foreign documents, courts, personalities, organizations, or opinion polls; believes that the Constitution limits government, including the judiciary.
8. Believes in the sanctity and worth of individual human life from conception until natural death.
9. Will not force states to issue counterfeit marriage licenses or the Federal government to recognize non-marriage arrangements as marriage.
Preferred Qualities:
10. Has executive and foreign policy experience.
11. Will promote and support tax reforms that will move us away from Federal income taxes towards a system primarily consisting of user fees and tariffs, supplemented, if necessary, by “sales taxes”.
12. Will work to eliminate or reduce Federal government involvement in education, health care, business, and any activity not clearly stated as a Federal responsibility in the Constitution, instead encouraging voluntary, private action, and State and local involvement only where and when appropriate.
13. Will support easing the immigration process for those who demonstrate a desire to legally immigrate, become naturalized, and become law-abiding, productive, integrated members of American society who are loyal to our Constitution and our way of life. In the event of an actual and detrimental labor shortage, will allow businesses to import temporary labor.
14. Promotes voluntary, proven conservation as opposed to using government force to force businesses and individuals to comply with the demands of alarmist activists.
15. Is effective at communicating and defending these principles.
16. Will not fall into the siren call of MSM praise for “bipartisanship”, “listening”, “international cooperation”, and “change” - which are all codewords for supporting Leftist causes - to the detriment of these principles.
Notice I do not mention race, ethnicity, age, appearance, education level, sex, religion, marital status, or even political party. That’s because as long as the person is described above, I don’t care about those other things.
Of the current supposed frontrunners, is there anyone who meets #1-9? Who meets #10?