Im not a Republican but ill take a stab at these
1.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/upshot/an-honest-answer-from-david-brat.html
2.)as a veteran i know that military members do not have the same rights to due process you do. As a veteran i know what the UCMJ says. As a veteran i find it appalling you using your first amendment rights to squash mine trying to eliminate my opinion because i have an educated opinion on the subject.
also i remember when the left in this country was saying some very ugly things about right leaning veterans only for political purposes had nothing to do with their service, so when you get a probable deserter, and his own squad mates say not that he should be not rescued but definitely tried and convicted in a military court for his crimes i love to see how you go after those honorable soldiers who did not run, even when they were sent to look for someone that did.
3.) i was at a tea party rally where both white and black people had guns strapped we didnt all run in terror, i can say the same thing about the occupy rally i went to where the same thing happened... guns are scary to the left, not only is this question hypocritical because democrats lose their minds anytime guns come out, but you would have zero problems disarming those black gun holders and have no qualms crushing their rights, and do not see the racism that this question poses...
4.) of course id be the first target. thats why conceal carry is important, thanks for making the point for us...
5.) im not sure the premise of the question did the "good guy" have the bad guys focus their attention on him and not innocent people just walking through the store? you betcha,
your premise that the good guy having a gun because he died didnt save lives is false. he put his life on the line for others. he died defending people hes a hero, you consider him a fool. and thats sad.
6.)yes thats why i dont like john mccain hes the reason i left the republican party. but you pretend that the fact that obama not only still has troops in afghanistan, he put troops in egypt, libya, and wanted to put them in syria, thats 4 wars we are in right now... because of him..
what john mccain might have done is an attack for you, but you ignore what Obama has done and thats sad... btw it was congress that stopped the war in syria, which he wanted... i think your point is lost you should probably delete it and pretend you never said it, like you pretend obama didnt do it..
7.)i dont think that iran contra was a good thing for REagan i thiink its directly responsible for "terrorists" to think they can take hostages and get things for them. i also dont think reagan was the "conservative god" that neocons have tried to portray him, since the 1980s i think your question is without merit, you say this is wrong, but that berghdahl trade is right. do you not see your own hypocrisy in this? i guess the question could be reversed i wonder how you would answer, since you think that it was wrong under reagan why do you think its right under Obama?
8.)we didnt need to nationalize oil until clinton decimated our strategic oil reserves.. and our strategic gasoline reserves we should rebuild those. we should continue to build new refineries and the epa should stay out of that, because new refinieries are more efficient than the aging infrastructure we have now, but the left doesnt want to rebuild and expand our refineries do you? the reason why drill baby drill oil gets sold on the open market is because our refinery capacity is so slow that selling that oil on the market then buying from foreign countries the oil we refine is better for the economy.
why are you against more efficient refineries? and why are you against the economy?
9.)continue calling it bush's mess, when a democrat led senate voted to give him authorization to go to war. including hillary, kerry, biden... all front runners for 2016
but to answer your question i was against the iraq war then im against it now, both parties totally f'ed the middle east.. both parties continue to... i wish he would have left and told iraq to fend for itself, we shoudlnt have build a new government we shouldnt have armed them, now that weak government cant fend for itself and the insurgency will now have state of the art weapons, and will use them in syria... (ISIS) another place we had no business going to and thankfully a sane congress voted that one no... unfortunately more people will be armed with american weapons because we have no business going there.. its amazing we will condemn Russia for arming seperatists in Ukraine but we will call for sanctions on them for doing what we did in their back yard for decades... im waiting on the world to finally sanction us, and maybe we will stop this insanity of building nations caused by both parties there is plenty of sin to go around
your answers to your question is fallacy btw 2.) handing over iraq to radical islamists as if the people in the power there now arent already radical islamists if we didnt want to hand over iraq to radical islamists we shouldnt have killed saddam.. but for a decade after the first gulf war, democrats would complain that george hw bush didnt finish the job when he didnt go into baghdad... then when George W bush did it, they call it a mistake... lol again lefties wanting to have it both ways... history is a b*tch..
10.) well peak oil is a myth, 4 billion of carbon producing lifeforms its already proven that there are far larger deposits of oil everywhere on this planet... even in antarctica
but its a falsehood to say that solar and wind means we wouldnt be dependent on other nations
to be able to build the amount of power stations to replace fossil fuels for power means we need to vastly increase production of solar panels and the components of wind mills which are all tied directly to the fossil fuel industry, what do you think plastics are? byproducts of oil you need oil to lubricate the wind mills. to vastly increase oil production to keep up... now are we going to buy these from china we are going because the epa puts unreasonable restrictions on new production the chemicals used to make some of these new solar panels are impossible to create are impossible to be produced and used here because of the regulations put on companies here, we are making outsourcing necessary to continue on our new legislature dictated power supplies.
so reducing fossil fuels without reducing the regulations on plants building the new technology we will forever be dependent on foreign power, until we realize some environmental trade offs will be worth it...