Presidential race 2016

[Duchess]

You definitely missed the point. The idea is for both sides to move to the middle.

No, I did not miss the point.

What part of the following do you believe only conservatives want and those on the left don't?

I want to pay our fair share to the government as long as it goes to the common good. I want roads, schools, law enforcement and national security. But I don't want to pay for other people's poor choices, passivity or lifestyles.

I want roads, schools, law enforcement and national security. But I don't want to pay for other people's poor choices, passivity or lifestyles.

I don't want to make victims out of minorities by telling them, "That's OK, you can have my help because you can't make it on your own." That is soft bigotry. By all means, help minorities to achieve the prerequisites of their goals, but don't lower the standards for them.

I don't want an economy with constraints that hurt all of us — the poorest and the richest. Deregulate within reason. Lift all boats. The job creators liberals want to hamstring will help the lowest rungs of society. But equality does not produce prosperity. Other people's money runs out, as Margaret Thatcher famously said, and if the desire to create more money is not stimulated, than everyone will live in mediocrity.

The government has no money of its own. None, zero. It only has what it takes from us.

I believe in a woman's right to choose — whether she has protected or unprotected sex, inside or outside of marriage. But I do not believe in her right to make me pay for the choices she makes or doesn't make or to demand that I pay for her to end a life without dire need for the health of the mother.