Questions every Republican running for office need to be asked. YES OR NO ANSWERS ONLY.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
1. If you support banning abortion, do you make any exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother? Do you make exceptions for:
A. Ectopic pregnancies?
B. Maternal sepsis?
C. Real-time miscarriages?
2. Do you think a state government has the right to control the travel of pregnant women? Do you think state officials should have the right to physically and/or legally pursue women who seek to get an abortion by traveling from a state where abortion is outlawed to one where it is permitted?
3. Do you think women who get abortions should be imprisoned? Do you think they should be forced to get mandatory psychiatric confinement? Do you think they should be put to death?
4. Do you think that doctors that perform abortions should be punished? Do you think they should be imprisoned? Do you think they should be put to death?
5. Do you think a state has the right to open mail that state officials believe to contain abortion medications?
6. Do you think any of the following birth control methods should be banned?:
A. IUDs
B. Condoms
C. Birth control pills
D. Morning-after pills (emergency contraception)
7. In cases of miscarriage, do you favor investigations to determine whether it was actually an abortion?
8. Do you think children 10 years old should, if raped and impregnated, be forced to carry the pregnancy to term?
9. Do you think a state government should have the right to outlaw contraception?
10. Do you favor a national ban on all abortion? A ban on all forms of birth control?
11. Do you think a state or local government should have the right to chart women’s menstrual periods?
12. Do you think pregnant women are entitled to child support from the father of the baby right from the time of conception?
OTHER PERSONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Do you think a state should have the right to ban gay marriage? Do you favor a national ban?
2. Do you think a state should have the right to punish people for participating in gay sex? If yes, do you favor any of the following:
A. Fines
B. Prison time
C. Death
3. Should employers be able to discriminate against LGBTQ people in hiring?
4. Should the parents of trans teenagers be reported to the authorities?
5. Should medical care for trans individuals be outlawed?
6. Should grown men be allowed to marry children 12 to 17 years of age?
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES
1. Did Joe Biden legitimately win the 2020 election?
2. Do you believe Donald Trump should be reinstated as president?
3. Do you think the events of 1/6/21 in Washington were simply a protest? Do you think the events of 1/6/21 were an attempt to overthrow the results of a free election? Do you think Donald Trump and his team orchestrated the events of 1/6/21? Should members of Congress who participated in planning or carrying out the events of 1/6/21 be removed from Congress?
4. Do you favor increasing taxes on those making $200,000 per year? Making $100,000? $50,000? $25,000? $10,000?
5. Do you consider Social Security and Medicare to be entitlements?
6. Do you favor eliminating Social Security altogether? Cutting Social Security benefits? Raising the age at which full benefits may be received?
7. Do you favor eliminating Medicare? Medicaid?
8. Do you want to repeal the Affordable Care Act?
9. Do you favor an excess wealth tax?
10. Do you think excessive corporate profits are a factor in causing inflation?
11. Is inflation an international problem?
12. Does the U.S. President control the price of gasoline?
13. Is unemployment lower now than it was in January 2017?
14. Did Donald Trump’s adult children and his son-in-law increase their wealth during the Trump administration? Did Donald Trump himself use his position to enrich himself?
GUNS
1. Do you think that any restrictions may be placed on the sale and possession of guns?
2. Do you favor banning assault weapons such as AR-15s?
3. Do you think the widespread availability of guns is responsible for the terrible mass shootings we have seen?
4. Do you favor restricting the sale of guns with high capacity magazines?
5. Do you favor universal background checks for the sale of guns?
6. Do you receive major funding from the NRA for your campaign?
7. Do you favor raising the age at which guns may be purchased?
8. Do you approve of people brandishing assault weapons in public places?
EDUCATION
1. Do you favor eliminating the public school system?
2. Do you think taxpayers should be forced to pay for private schools? For religious schools?
3. Do you think teachers should lead classes in prayer? Would Jewish or Islamic prayers be acceptable?
4. Do you think instruction in the Bible should be mandatory in public schools? Would instruction in the Koran or Talmud be acceptable?
5. Do you think creationism should be taught in public schools? Do you think criticisms of creationist ideas should be permitted?
6. Should teachers have to allow parents to set the curriculum? Reading lists?
7. Should teachers’ unions be outlawed?
8. Should both sides of the Holocaust be taught? Of slavery? Should the history of slavery and Jim Crow be taught?
OTHER SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES
1. Should the U.S. have an official religion? Should a state be allowed to have an official religion? [NB: Clarence Thomas favors allowing states to have an official religion.]
2. Should churches run the government? Should non-Christians be allowed to be part of the government?
3. Should employers be allowed to fire non-Christian employees?
4. Should local governments be allowed to fine women for dressing “immodestly”?
5. Should unions in general be outlawed?
6. Should police forces take steps to eliminate white supremacists from their ranks?
7. Are white nationalist groups a threat to the country?
8. Should women work outside of the home?
9. Should women receive equal pay for equal work, experience, and qualifications?
10. Should pregnant women be allowed to get a divorce? [NB: In Missouri, they MAY NOT do this.]
11. Should a state government be allowed to punish companies that disagree with its policies?
12. Should the children of undocumented immigrants, who have lived in the U.S. all their lives, be forced to leave?
13. Should legal immigration be restricted?
14. Do you agree with the “Great Replacement Theory” that says the Democrats are deliberately trying make whites a minority?
15. Do you think whites are more discriminated against than nonwhites?
THE ENVIRONMENT
1. Do you think that the Earth’s climate is undergoing major changes? If so, do you think human actions have contributed to such changes?
2. Do you favor continuing subsidies to the oil, coal, and natural gas industries?
3. Do you favor an expansion of renewable energy?
4. Do you think state governments should have the right to ban renewables or tax them heavily?
AND SOME FOREIGN POLICY QUESTIONS
1. Do you support Ukraine in its war to drive out the Russian invaders? Will you be willing to appropriate more money to do this?
2. Do you consider Russia to be an enemy of the United States?
3. Do you support the expansion of NATO?
MAKE THE REPUBLICANS ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. ASK THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. GET SOME DAMN ANSWERS OUT OF THESE LOWLIFES. And as always…
GET OUT THE VOTE!