I've Been Accused of being Liberal. Okay I'm laying my cards on the table

Issues:

Gun Control: See 2nd Amendment.
Gay marriage: Against. It's a man/woman thing with financial incentives and tax breaks for the breeders to take care of the kids.
Abortion: For. Because my mom favored it...told me horror stories about all her friends who died in the 1930s.
Church and State: Separated, but not to the point of chiseling off quotes or motifs etched into federal buildings back in the 1800s. Good grief.
Taxes: Flat. Percentage based. Everybody pays. No exemptions.
Foreign Policy: Give Iraq to the Iraqis, but never, never let it fall to the Iranians.
Education: Revamp the federal student loan program.
Free Trade: Yes, if you can get the UN to properly slam the door on protectionist tariffs.
Welfare: Enforce the laws on the books.
Campaign Finance: Cap it. Just like an NFL salary cap.
Death Penalty: Hand me the needle, I'll do it.
Social Security: Privitization works fine until the economy tanks. No. Joe Average gets the short end of the stick because Joe don't know how to manipulate investment funds. It's a Federal program; keep it that way.
Energy: Market forces are already pushing research. Within a century, oil will be a moot issue.
Environment: The longer I live the more environmentally aware I become. Take paradise, put up a parking lot. Joni Mitchell was it right.
Immigration: Enforce the laws on the books. Hire whoever has to be hired, pay whatever has to be paid. Enforce the law.
Civil Liberties: We've reached the point where anybody can find out anything about anybody anyway. That being said, I'd chop my arm off if they put an I.D. chip in it.

Predictions:
We pull in our horns overseas and turn our attention inward. All's well for a while.
Just as we begin to feel good about ourselves, we will get hit again. Hard.
The reaction will be swift and brutal - it'll make George Bush look like a pacifist.