The one thing Fiorina does state as her position I emphatically support: zero-base government budgeting. That means each agency's budget must be fully justified each year, instead of the farce we now have, with using last year's budget as a given, without question, and adding an arbitrary percentage (usually much higher than the inflation rate claimed by the government). Unjustified agency budgets are the primary reason for duplication, waste, and fraud perpetrated against the taxpayer, and unending government growth.

Fiorina goes further, stating she wants a zero base justification for agency existence, based on the roles for government laid out in the Constitution. Any agency that can't point to a definitive Constitutional reason for its existence gets eliminated. Rand Paul is a fan of zero base budgeting, but I haven't heard him push for outright elimination of agencies, like Fiorina.

Ask me about her in 6 months.
All the political preening at such an early date has me somewhat nauseated. We have become a nation of hurry-up and wait. We've hurried into the Presidential campaign 6 months too early which may set a precedent for other events. Halloween preparations in January, Christmas preparations in March, etc. I suspect that the political deck will be reshuffled in 6 months and look quite different than today. Only one caution: Don't look for perfection. None of them, with the exception of Rand Paul, are even close.

Legalization would be the best reform! Legalization doesn't mean advocating drug use, it simply means recognition that drug addiction is a medical/mental health problem that can best be addressed by doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists better than police officers, courts, and prisons. This is not just an opinion, this is borne out by the success of methadone treatment programs that allow addicts to be addicted and still lead a relatively normal life as productive citizens free of criminal activity.

her comments about humans causing climate change which takes place daily will be one more reason for her demise.

I wish that I could agree with you on "standardized" government education. Unfortunately it has not worked at all so far. No child left behind was a quota system that seemed to leave all the children of the United States very far behind. More "standardization" will not help and will not make a high school diploma any more meaningful. The result will only be more expense, more bureaucracy and our children will be the victims. What our children need is more parental involvement and a higher caliber of instructors. Neither of those can be legislated. Instead what they will get is exactly the same result, being passed even when they are failing because someone may ask the dreaded question...why?

And what would those " reforms that really
reduce harm" be, pray tell.

Right, but marijuana is not very addictive and never killed anyone directly. Moreover, the war approach against truly addictive drugs is not working. I wish she could turn this tragedy in her life into support for reforms that really reduce harm to people who get caught up with drug addiction.

Her strong support for a war on drug users
probably is due to the sad fact that she and her
husband buried a daughter due to drug ad-
diction.

You continue to ignore the evidence and promote the same empty irrational rubbish. The state is at fault for all the items and Carly is a statist that pretends the state will solve the problems it created. Maybe YOU are looking the other way, but you have no right to accuse anyone else of doing so. Your favorite savior his majesty O-racist hasn't been just looking the other way either; he has purposely not enforced the law as passed and funded by the congress. The people living in border states haven't been looking the other way either. They have been resisting the invasion in every legal way they could. Take your irrational commentary to some socialist, statist site where it and you belong. You are wasting the valuable time of everyone here.

I'm obviously not voting socialist. None of this is socialist:
- Admitting we have 20 million people here who are technically not supposed to be here but we've looked the other way for decades.
- Admitting human activities accelerate climate change.
- National education standards

The most "socialist" item is the national education standards. That grows out having gov't-run schools. If we're not going privatize them, we should have standards. Part of the value of a diploma is people knowing what it means-- that the student met specific requirements.

The climate change one is not socialist or any ideology; it's just a fact. That means it is a claim can be proven or disproven. It doesn't have an ideology. Not liking the final consequences does not change reality.

The immigration one is a mess because we've been just looking the other way, ignoring our laws, for decades, and now we expect someone to come up with a program to fix it quickly.

They're all issues where we're in a tough spot that we'd rather not be in, and people want to react as if they're political ideology could make them go away. Unfortunately it will take hard work. Like so many problems, we'll wait until they become crises to deal with them. Until then they lend themselves perfectly to politicking and not getting stuff done.

You could write speeches for either the GOP or the Democrats ;^)

None of those are reasonable positions unless you love the state and hate liberty. Guess you will be voting socialist again.

These facts make her seem very reasonable, but I can't stand her strong support for the war on drug users.