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It is a fondly treasured dream of mine to have the chance to vote for candidates that embrace all of my basic positions:

1) Domestically liberal, concerned with maximizing the personal freedoms of American citizens, whre there are real and substantial personal choices choices available between what is mandatory and what is forbidden (it is only in totalitarianisms that everything is either mandated or forbidden). I am pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, gay adoption and open gays in the military (although I’m a straight southern male), pro -legal adult prostitution, pro-legal-adult pornography, pro-legal-gambling, pro-marijuana legalization, and pro-legal euthanasia/assisted suicide – but also pro-gun (except for unsupervised minors, those convicted or charged with violent crimes, and those who are mentally incapacitated or unstable in some clinically verifiable way.

2) Fiscally conservative – not in the tax-and-spend Democratic way or in the borrow-and-spend Republican way, but in the balance-the-books, reduce-the-deficit, try-to-pay-down-the-debt Clintonian way.

3) Realistic about foreign policy, acknowledging the severity and character of the totalitarian-minded jihadist threat we face, and willing to employ proactive and international-freedom-supporting measures to counter it.

Ahh…whatta luvly dream!