Love favors "fiscal discipline, limited government, and personal responsibility."[19] She has also said that she asks herself three questions whenever she approaches an issue, "Is it affordable? Is it sustainable? Is it my job?"[20]
At her college orientation, Love’s father told her: "Mia, your mother and I never took a handout. You will not be a burden to society. You will give back," a philosophy she underscores on the trail and uses to sum up her conservative views.[21]
Love is pro-life and has been endorsed by the Susan B. Anthony List.[22] She supports domestic energy exploration, local control of education, Second Amendment rights, and state control of public lands.[23]
Love’s race has been the subject of much attention, as she is the first black woman mayor in Utah history.[24] She has said that if elected to Congress, she would “join the Congressional Black Caucus and try to take that thing apart from the inside out” and has described the Caucus as “...demagoguery. They sit there and ignite emotions and ignite racism when there isn’t. They use their positions to instill fear. Hope and change is turned into fear and blame. Fear that everybody is going to lose everything and blaming Congress for everything instead of taking responsibility." [25]
on a related note, here's Love cozying up to the Tea Party prior to riding their support to a 4th district nomination at the state GOP convention:
CBC members should stop demonizing tea partiers
I have yet to meet a tea party member who wants to see me “hanging on a tree,” as U.S. Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana recently suggested. He says the tea party considers me a second-class citizen. In truth, as a black conservative woman in Utah, I have been welcomed into the arms of a freedom-loving movement. The tea party reflects the principles of freedom and prosperity black Americans have long fought to win.
Today, however, some members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are more interested in igniting racism than extinguishing it. [...]
yes, how could anyone get the crazy idea that the Tea Party is a haven for racists?
by the way, isn't it odd how Love never talks about her Tea Party principles anymore? i don't think her billboards in SLC even identify her as a republican.
Fortunately, you can't. I do have that opportunity, but I will be voting against her. "Against her" is the right way to put it, because I would really rather not be voting for the very conservative Jim Matheson, but in this case he is the better of two poor choices. It's something I have to hold my nose and do every two years, because that's the reality of life here in the reddest of states.
It's interesting that all her political positions you listed are also shared by Matheson. He is really DINO. Besides party label, her ethnicity and gender are the only things that distinguish the two. And that's what she's banking on.
"The DNA of fictional populations appears to be the most susceptible to extinction." - Simon Southerton
palerobber wrote:i don't think her billboards in Salt Lake City even identify her as a republican.
Being Republican isn't an advantage in SLC proper.
If the districts in this state were not so badly gerrymandered, we would have a real Democratic congressman (not in name only) who actually represented the people in the city. Someone like Rocky Anderson, maybe.
"The DNA of fictional populations appears to be the most susceptible to extinction." - Simon Southerton
palerobber wrote:i don't think her billboards in Salt Lake City even identify her as a republican.
Being Republican isn't an advantage in Salt Lake City proper.
If the districts in this state were not so badly gerrymandered, we would have a real Democratic congressman (not in name only) who actually represented the people in the city. Someone like Rocky Anderson, maybe.
yea, i realize that, i was just pointing out that Love is being two-faced.
the funny thing is Matheson likewise doesn't like to mention that he's a Democrat -- but at least with him he never pretends to be a big liberal when speaking to his base. i get his newsletter and it touts the same centrist votes and positions he runs on.
on a related note, here's Love cozying up to the Tea Party prior to riding their support to a 4th district nomination at the state GOP convention
Which brings up the as yet unanswered question to liberals as to what the Tea Party stands for. There's been a lot of hopeful speculation, but so far, nothing close to reality.
it started as a libertarian thing then quickly got overrun with all the usual crackpots of various sorts that have occupied the right flank of the republican party since the 1950s. it doesn't stand for anything -- it's just a great pile of resentment, ignorance, and sub-clinical mental issues