Going with the posts so far, I'll vote for either Tony or Steve.

1. Should photo ID cards be required in order to vote?

Yes -- unless the prospective voter has an established cultural reason for avoiding being photographed (Amish, etc.), for which most states already have recognized alternatives. There should, however, not be a fee for those IDs if they are issued solely for the purpose of voting, which would constitute an illegal poll tax. Photo ID for other purposes -- i.e., driver's licenses -- could remain "pay as you go".

2. What will you do to secure our borders from illegal immigrants and/or terrorists?

Since I live in an interior state, I would defer to representatives of border states for guidance. In comparison, the potential danger from terrorists crossing the border is much greater than that from undocumented seekers of a better life.

3. Is there a better solution to Middle East turmoil, than the establishment or promotion of freely elected democratic republics? Why or why not?

If "establishment or promotion" came without the pre-requisites of invasion and occupation, there would be no better solution . . . as long as it were promoted by people with a demonstrable understanding of the history and culture of the regions they were attempting to democratize.

4. What are your intentions regarding Tort Reform?

I understand "tort reform" as a strawman, preferring instead to accept the statistic that so-called "excessive" awards and/or "frivolous" litigation accounts for no more than 0.1% of the blame for the rising costs of insurance. I would de-emphasize waving the tort reform flag, and spend the effort reforming insurers.

5. If you could write an Amendment to the Constitution and know it would pass and be ratified, what would that Amendment be?

I'm with SDG on this one: It should never be so easy to amend the Constitution that the result is predictable, much less guaranteed. I would, instead, work against the efforts, current or planned, to amend the Constitution in ways that codify one particular lifestyle as the only legal one, especialy those which violate, IMO, the "equal protection" clause of the 13th Amendment.

6. What specific measures would you recommend to protect Social Security for coming generations?

I do not object to the idea of a means test for recipients -- first of all, I would pass that test with flying colors, and have no sympathy for those who would fail. I also would support raising the taxable cap on annual income.

The idea of "privatizing" retirement investment is, on its own, not objectionable, as long as it remains completely voluntary. It carries risks as high as personal administration of 401(k) funds, but no worse . . . The participants must be made fully aware that they bear all risks themselves, without recourse to the Federal government if their plans fail.

7. Where do you stand on eliminating the income tax and SSI tax and replacing them with a national consumption tax?

I stand on top of the six feet of soil that covers the coffin of that idea.

8. What will you do to ensure the integrity of the voting system?

All systems of registering and counting votes have inherent errors, which vary according to the system used. For years, I voted using what now are considered old-fashioned, clockwork machines -- then moved to a state which uses the "butterfly" punch-card ballot. I have no experience with touch-screens, nor seen any statistcal comparisons of accuracy among the various systems used in the country. At the very least, a national standardization would also standardize (and, one would hope, reduce) the potential sources of inaccuracy.

9. What are the limits to judicial authority?

See the US Constitution, and the constitutions of the various states. IMO, "judicial activism" is a bogeyman propped up by people who refuse to understand that the Constitution prohibits them from controlling other people's private behavior through legislation.

10. Given that many states give equal treatment [to] U.S. citizens, legal aliens and illegal aliens, just what does it mean to be a U.S. citizen (besides not being hassled by INS)?

It still means what John Adams said it did: Responsibility to one's fellow citizens to be an educated, active participant in governance. It means registering to vote, then voting, having first spent some time making informed choices about whom to vote for. It means working for the improvment of one's community, irrespective of who lives in it, or whether or not they have "proper documentation".

11. Should undocumented aliens have the ability to get legal drivers licenses?

How do they do that without documents?

12. What is your first proposal to balance the Federal Budget?

The Line-Item Veto. Pork isn't kosher, and I would gleefully remove it from any and all appropriations bills. Beyond that: auditing every Federal agency, including the "black" ones.

13. What is your proposal for lowering the National Debt?

See above

14. Confidence in the validity of elections has fallen sharply in some places. What would you recommend to repair and rebuild that confidence?

As Tony pointed out: same question as #8

15. What are the limits to the authority of the Federal Government?

See the US Constitution . . . I mean really see it.

16. Do you believe the continued existence of a central bank (the Federal Reserve) that issues fiat money is in the best interests of the U.S.?

As Tom pointed out, the way this question is phrased alone indicates it as a talking point for some fringe group.

I learned an awful lot from Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" about the origins of modern economics and monetary policy. "Currency" as a word for a nation's money is derived from the currency of information about its worth -- i.e., its purchasing power. As far as I know, there is not a currency on the planet that is not "fiat money".

I get the feeling that the perpetrators of this particular question would have "us" (that is, the world) revert to some common standard -- gold, for instance, of all things -- through which all currencies are compared. That is patently ridiculous in a world where currency is instantaneous, and the amount of money in circulation -- as expressed both in its purchasing power and in what is being purchased -- vastly exceeds the number of pieces of paper printed to represent it.

Whoever formulated that question needs to wake up and smell the century.

17. What actions do you support for education reform?

-- Pay teachers as if their jobs were as important as the results we want from them: our nation's future.

-- No tenure or promotion without merit. That includes administrators. Too many gym teachers end up as principals, then run their schools as if all challenges are answerable with increased discipline.

-- Scrap "No Child Left Behind" and replace it with "No School Left Behind". Physical infrastructure is second only to teacher qualification for the safety and efficacy of a child's school day.

-- End the backdoor support of religious and/or racial flight known euphemistically as "vouchers".

-- And something Tony said: Stop "teaching to the test". Teach the child.

18. Should judicial nominees be guaranteed a “yes or no” vote in Committee? Why or why not?

What is that supposed to mean? That all prospective judges should expect to be passed on to the full Senate? No, they should not. To my understanding, the committee's proper function is as a filter, to eliminate the obviously unqualified appointees. How that has been handled is a different question.

19. What should our short and long term strategies be in Iraq?

The 87+ Billion Dollar Question . . .

Long term: Get the hell out, ASAP. The problem, of course, is deciding what's "possible". At some point, perhaps to mollify the families of the military assigned to Iraq, we may have to cut our losses and leave the Iraqis to their own (improvised explosive) devices.

I would pay serious attention to a re-partitioning of the country currently known as Iraq along tribal/ethnic/religious lines -- and to hell with Turkey's objections to an independent Kurdistan.

20. What should the United States’ relationship be with the United Nations?

The same as it should be with the national governments and peoples on the planet:

-- An exemplar of freedom within the rule of laws derived from the will of the people being governed;

-- A nation which, by its actions within its borders and beyond them, demonstrates that it is neither necessary nor desireable to violate any person's inalienable human rights in order to govern;

-- A nation any other would aspire to emulate, without needing to be bribed or coerced.