[More Cowbell]

National Defense is my numero uno, I felt this way long before 9-11, and preserving our way of life should be everyone's top priority because believe it or not there are people out there who want to destroy it.
Education-being a college student this is up there for me
Enviroment-Living in the Ashland area where we have F- air quality and terrible water this is important to me and why when finished with school I will move away immediately, cancer and disease rate is unreal here.
Immigration-Personally I don't want millions of Mexicans coming into our country, lowering wages and using up tax money in prison and in health care.
Abortion-To me we should try and save every life possible, once mitotic cell division begins, no more abortion, unless mother's life is in jeopardy.
Disease Research- Open up more stem cell research. There are cures out there for MS, Lou Gherig's, Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes, among others. We should be doing everything in our power to try and cure these terrible diseases.

Then I move on to some secondary ones such as supporting unions, doing away with our dependency on foreign energy, health care, increasing wages for military, police, fire, emtp services.

I'm also a huge advocate of states rights. In most cases I feel that the states should be the deciding factor on most of these issues.

In looking at your list of the issues that are important to you, I noticed one thing. Your list contains some platforms of the Republican party, and some from the Democratic party. Which means that in your book, neither party has it all right, or all wrong. And that's a good thing.

I am glad to see that you believe in what you think is important, not what some national party tells you is important. We need more of this country's voters to think like that. Not to go in and press the button at the top (for a full party slate), but to actually vote for the candidate in each race who supports what is important to them.

I may not agree with all your positions, Beetle, but I can respect the fact that you aren't just spouting off one party's talking points.