Chris Simcox for U.S. Senate (Arizona, vs. John McCain)

[Romantarchist]

FINALLY, Arizona gets an impressive candidate. It's about time! We came closer than any other state to getting a libertarian (Barry Goldwater) into the White House, so it seems strange that Arizona didn't get a Ron Paul-style candidate sooner. Let's show McCain a thing or two in the 2010 primaries.


Website: http://www.simcoxforsenate.com/index.php
Party: Republican

-Co-Founder of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps
-Former Kindergarten teacher at the Wildwood School in Los Angeles, California
-Former record producer in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago
-Newspaper writer for the Tombstone Tumbleweed
-Semi-pro baseball player
-Self-described middle-class American who is skeptical of career politicians

I've been looking at his website and while there are a couple of small details I dislike, his positions are quite strong for the most part:

-Pro-Life
-Strong support of the 1st Amendment, re-inforced by his experience with those who want to stifle the free speech of the Minutemen
-A literal approach to the 2nd Amendment, where there are no restrictions on guns whatsoever
-Abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to the gold standard
-Abolishing the 16th Amendment and the Federal Income Tax
-Restoring the 10th Amendment to everyday, mainstream use
-Repealing regulations that suffocate the economy
-Making it illegal to vote on any bill that Congress has not read

[acptulsa]

It would be huge to defeat Daddy Neocon in his own G.O.P. primary. Huge.

[georgiaboy]

This is so doable.

[South Park Fan]

Go Simcox!

[scandinaviany3]

It would be huge to defeat Daddy Neocon in his own G.O.P. primary. Huge.

then lets make it happen...as we see from schiff and rand..the party neocons are scared...and they should be:):D

The end of their age is coming to pass

[MsDoodahs]

Before you go jumping on this guy's bandwagon...

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/minuteman-chris-simcoxs-past-will-ha

I think I saw John Stossel do a piece on this guy a long time ago.

[MR2Fast2Catch]

I am impressed. I checked his website a few months ago and there weren't as many issues posted so I wrote him off as a standard Republican. I was thinking of supporting Jim Deakin but seeing Simcox's stance on the Federal Reserve, income tax and other constitutional issues, I'd support Simcox. Simcox definitely has some dirt that the media can use against him though. We'll see what happens.

[james1906]

Before you go jumping on this guy's bandwagon...

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/minuteman-chris-simcoxs-past-will-ha

I think I saw John Stossel do a piece on this guy a long time ago.

He was convicted of carrying a gun in a nat'l park, which is now legal, although the 2nd Amendment states it's always been legal. I can't imagine that hurting him. Hell, it makes me want to vote for him.

[MR2Fast2Catch]

I can't seem to find his stance on foreign policy anywhere, but I did find a 7 part interview of him on youtube, and in it he mentions that he wants the US out of the United Nations. :-)