Letters to the Editor
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AKA Smith - President Hutchinson
Unfortunately, President Hutchinson doesn't exactly do it for me. I have the same policy problems with her that I have with McCain.
I am a registered Independent. I am one because the center has been ripped out of both of the parties. Perhaps this is why I can look at Hillary Clinton and not be disgusted. I am socially liberal, sort of economically conservative. I believe the government has an obligation to try to fix problems that the market doesn't solve - however, I also want them to at least try and figure out how to pay for them. Deficits aren't something I'm fond of. However, I believe it's even worse to have what we have had - people who don't believe in government spending like there is no tomorrow, in some cases, just to prove that government doesn't work or pay off their cronies. Or, running wars 'off the books'. Yeah, thanks.
Hutchinson would be likely to support McCain, or continue his policies with regard to the following:
Appointing more Federal SC Justices in the mold of Roberts/Alito. I don't think these would be Clinton's first choices. I realize many people here think Clinton's a fascist, but Hutchinson is one of the Republicans who is, to even bring up Robert Bork's opinion here, completely inconsistent on the application of the 14th Amendment. She likes the substantive due process part (which was never defined either) being administered and pushed down to the States by the Federal courts because this ensures her rights (including her legal, not more 'personal' privacy rights) stay intact and enforced throughout the legal systems around the country. But, she doesn't want the Federal government administering and enforcing personal privacy rights on the States because she doesn't like certain social policies that result. However, she can't argue that it wasn't defined. Neither was substantive due process. And she's fine w/that.
More likely to keep us in Iraq forever. Clinton's position on withdrawal from Iraq is no different than Obama's. Both are different from McCain's. Both are different than what I've heard Hatchinson say.
There would be no hope of getting anything resolved on health insurance, even anything that made fiscal sense.
I don't see Hutchinson as a centrist - at all.