I'm certainly registered as one.  I was raised in a household that considered itself very much 'Republican', especially within this district.  My Grandfather was a highly noted Carolinian Republican political figure, my father slightly less noted.  I started the YRs at my high school when I was 16.

You seem to have an...awareness (is the term I'll use)...of "Fake Republicans" that is much more acute than my own.  Right now I feel our(?) party not to be a party but more like six or more fringe groups that are unorganized (though some of us are trying hard) and disconnected.  The national party as a whole has no one issue that we can all agree with.

One question I'd like you to answer, in regards to this entire discussion and also to help get a feel for you as a Primary candidate, is: what do you think is one issue that all Republicans in North Carolina should agree on and also can you think of one issue that all Republicans nationally should really put as number one?

My household's core value to pass to the two children it raised was to treat all others equally regardless of color, religious beliefs, wealth, home(excluding all the yankees who moved down and can't drive) creed.  I feel that I have to the best of my ability I done this.  I was taught that government shouldn't have involvement with religious ideas or sects.  That as a Real Republican I should want In God we trust off of our money, not because we I didn't trust in God but because America is a nation of people of many beliefs and some of no beliefs and none of these beliefs are fact (I was taught a fact was true, could be seen, like 35 American soldiers dying in Afghanistan last week, or the 'fact' that CIA estimates there to be fewer than 100 total Taliban affiliated men in the country).

So I'll share with a few, but not all, of the views I hold important:

-States' rights.  Smaller Federal Government, stronger states with the (actual) power to vary their law (from State to State) to fit the needs and desires of the people in that state.  This was the original idea for the nation.

-Securing, rebuilding fundamental civil liberties.  The Patriot Act was the most obvious 'least Republican' thing for a GOP figurehead and we have not recovered lost privacy.  In the near future we're going to have to worry about copyrights on our genes (England's already %^*$ed, for lack of better term, sorry).

-Ending the war and downsizing the military industrial complex.  We have no excuse to be there, intervention of this cost is the least 'Republican' thing I could ever think of.  Billions and billion of dollars...the most flaming liberals on the Left Coast and make up enough social programs and handouts to spend that TAX MONEY.  Another cost they can't touch is the thousands of lost lives, on all sides.  Why?

-Ending/replotting the war on drugs.  I could talk about this for days, but it's the biggest social problem in the US and now Mexico, who all our decisions directly affect.  What people do with their own bodies, healthy or not.......that's called 'freedom'.  To some people seeking and consuming these drugs is the pursuit of happiness. The idea that people will stop using drugs is absurd, efforts to lower numbers of users are fruitless; tax them silly.  We have ABC stores already.

-Ending our current public education system and starting over.  Again I could talk for days, but obviously the government doesn't have the right to ordain a ONE educational curriculum that is the truth that everyone must learn (see: RED BOOKS).
I basically feel we need an all-Charter/all-voucher system.  The American public high school I went to for one year was embarressing if you're aware of what they do at that age in Western-Europe.

...I have plenty more for you, but I'll wait for a response before typing anymore.
The idea of someone else taking Price's place excites me a great deal, I wish you good health.

The Self-Taught Man.
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