Barack Obama | Hillary Clinton | Newt Gingrich | Mitt Romney | Rick Santorum | Ron Paul | |
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Is the Constitution such an arcane document that only an elite cadre can be trusted to interpret it? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Is the Constitution obsolete? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Is the US government entitled to summarily kill or incarcerate anyone it deems a threat to its purposes? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Does the need for safety from terrorists trump the "unalienable rights" spoken of by the Declaration of Independence, or constitutional rights? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Are US citizens somehow "exceptional," better than people from other countries? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot put in your body? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot do in your bedroom? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot do in your bathroom? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should the federal government determine how your children are educated? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot post or read on the Internet? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot pass on to your survivors when you die? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should the federal government determine whether abortion is legal or illegal in a given state? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should the federal government determine whom you hire or work for, or the terms of such employment? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should the federal government determine what businesses will survive and which will fold? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Does what you receive in exchange for your labor belong first to the government and then, only after it takes what it wants, to you? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Can the US military be trusted always to do what is right? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Should Americans be virtually strip searched and have their genitals touched at airports or anywhere the federal government deems it necessary to do so? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Does the Islamic world hate us for our virtue and freedoms? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Is the nature of things such that some people have to become poorer for others to become richer? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Eighty percent of the people in this country say we're headed the wrong way. I say we're headed to go off a cliff that gets higher every day. Five of the six candidates with a shot at the presidency in November want to adjust the speed at which we are headed for the cliff. One wants us to change direction entirely.
That's a big difference.
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