Would you vote Republican if...?

Congratulations! Your stated positions could be the savior of your floundering party...once they get out of their own way. However, such will be years from now - though, enough time for you expouse this as part of your future agenda as our hopeful competitors.

- First, same-sex unions are not a federal issue. For the entire history of this country, that has been handled by the states. It is a decision made by society (considering we are a self-governing people) at the more local level, not something forced upon them by a federal government. This is where you miss the point of federalism. Marriages and unions are not a federal issue, and the federal government was given no authority over the matter in the Constitution.

- Abortions are already legal. The issue is that people don't want to be forced to pay for them when the procedure is against their religious beliefs. Also, such an invasive and potentially dangerous procedure needs to be considered to require just as much parental notification and approval as a tattoo. But at the root of this issue is that it was and should be subject to state, not federal, control, as it was and had been prior to Roe v. Wade.

- I'm ok with most of these, but I don't like balanced budget amendments - it is a cowardly way to run a government, and lets every legislator off the hook for their failure to do their job.

- No line item veto. That's not a proper authority to give the president - to unilaterally modify legislation that has already been passed by our legislature.

- Yes, Congress and all government employees - elected, appointed or civil service - should have to be subject to the same laws the rest of us are.

It's a good attempt, but in trying to remove some issues from the debate, you are increasing federal government power (i.e. big government) and reducing how much self-government the people are allowed. That is the wrong direction.

no because none of what you advocate has been successful in the past. Lower taxes -- We had the lowest federal taxes in several decades under Bush. It doesn't stimulate the economy

Pass a balanced budget amendment -- most economists agree that we would be in a full blow depression right now if Obama had not passed the stimulus package.

Pork barrel spending -- that's just infrastructure money that doesn't benefit YOU.

Entitlements - another right wing talking point used to destroy a social safety net -- trust me more poverty NEVER helps an economy

Yes the Republican social issues are borderline sociopathic, but we also saw in 2008 that their economic ideas are just a bad as their social ideas.

like a previous poster pointed out, there is a percentage on both sides who will always vote straight party ticket, no matter what. personally, i think there are more like that in the GOP than among the democrats, but my perceptions could be skewed by the area where i live. going by voter registrations, republicans outnumber democrats in my county by a 5 to 1 margin. there are 4 fundmentalist churches within one block of my apartment, and i've heard their preachers delivering sermons through the loudspeakers on sunday mornings just before election day exhorting their congregation with the words "Jesus COMMANDS you to vote REPUBLICAN!" needless to say, the only democrat who holds a public office here does so only because it's required by state law that one party can not control all three commissioner seats.

That's pretty much what the new age conservatives want, I think other than the upcoming 4 years of Obama, the US has a great future as lot of the younger generations are showing they are going more conservative but with just a little more modern sympathy to those issues.

If that's what you guys believe then you're Libertarians, not Conservatives. Libertarians (to oversimplify) are economically Conservative and socially Liberal. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I think Libertarianism makes more sense than Liberalism or Conservatism.

I don't think the government should be involved in marriage in any way. It should be a religious matter, nothing else. I am also for the legalization of all drugs, and I don't think they should be taxed. I think the government should have as little money as possible, if any.

abortions have been legal for over 40 years now

let gay people marry, why shouldn't they be miserable also

reduce public servant pay to minimum wage, if they really want to serve why let them get rich off it.

make any elected official that takes kickbacks or bribes a DP case and actually execute them.

Yeah, I usually tend to agree more with the democratic party, but this is reasonable. I would vote for it.

Sir, that is a Democrat platform. You are on the wrong ticket.