Missmini, what you see in the white house and congress by and large are not Republicans. Those are corporate fascist neoconservatives that hijacked the party. Ron Paul is a true, traditional Republican. Reagan before the assassination attempt scared him from following through on his ideals was a true Republican. Barry Goldwater, Robert Taft...anti-war, limited government, respect the Constitution. True Republicans are true Americans, faithful to the ideals that our founders built this country upon, and that our country has been driven by the power elite far, far from.
#1 - You reduce the size of government. You get rid of all of the worthless departments such as Dept. of Education and Energy, and replace them with nothing. You allow the states to have many of the powers that the government has usurped from the states over the last century. The more local government is, the more voice and control that the people have.
#2 - You end all foreign military involvement, and strengthen the national borders instead. Policing the world is incredibly expensive and only maintainable due to constant borrowing from China and Japan (at high interest rates mind you).
#3 - With unnecessary big government and military conflicts gone, you end the income tax. The more money that Americans have in their hands, the more that gets invested back into the economy, and the more that it grows. The more that's given to a concentrated few (the government), the higher the likelihood of greed and corruption in the usage of that money. And greed and corruption there be plenty of...
#4 - You legalize gold and silver, as the Constitution MANDATES, to be used as a competing currency. This will force the Federal Reserve to be fiscally responsible, and stop destroying our savings by printing more and more money out of thin air. Do you know what the purpose of the gold standard was by the way? To chain the government down so that it couldn't spend outside of its means by printing money out of thin air, thus protecting the citizens from inflation and fiscal irresponsibility. You can't just print gold and silver out of thin air.
And, it doesn't matter who Bush endorses, nor any other Republican. It's the delegates at the convention that determine the nominee, and if McCain doesn't have 1191 delegates that are committed to vote for him on the first round, then he doesn't have the nomination in the bag. The "backing of the Republican Party" is the farce, the delegate process is how it really works.
As far as a list, you're damned right they're few and far between. That's a direct result of our government and Nixon, and the incredible amount of power that our government has allowed the medical establishment and big pharma to wield over doctors. It takes one heluva doctor of integrity to refuse the funding that comes with going along with big brother, but they're out there. Wish I had this article on this one doc still, read it a few months ago think he had a clinic out in TN.
Edited by dannov, 06 March 2008 - 09:20 PM.