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Presented by Rebuild the Party and co-sponsored by YouTube, this RNC Candidates Forum is our last chance to quiz the candidates for RNC Chairman before the vote on January 30th.

At 11:59pm on January 19th, question submission and voting closed and we are presenting the ten questions below to the candidates for their video responses.

Read more about the questions and our selection process here.

Thank you for helping make this the most open and transparent RNC Chairman's race in history!

The government is like a morbidly obese person that's trap in an elevator with me. Thanks to the politicians from both parties who keep on feeding him junk food, he is constantly growing and growing while taking up all the space - slowly suffocating and squeezing the life out of me. On top of that, when I'm not looking, he steals a faction of the cash in my wallet to fund his constant consumption! When will the RNC realize the need to put the government back on a diet? **The Constitution is a great beginner's guide** -- Phil Nguyen asked on July 29, 2010 at 6:14 pm Vote: 5 4 Overall Score 1 Report This Question	Will the RNC Chair candidates state unequivocally that the Second Amendment recognizes an individual's right to bear arms for private use as affirmed by the recent Heller decision, that this right is as important as the other rights recognized in the Bill of Rights, and that the GOP should work to make this recognition a reality in the entirety of the United States? -- Steve Owens asked on July 29, 2010 at 11:24 am Vote: 11 0 Overall Score 11 Report This Question	What will you do to eliminate the programs and laws that have diminished civil liberties and proven to the GOP a bad image? Programs such as FISA bill, Patriot Act, Homegrown Terrorism Bill and Department of Homeland Security have all been enacted while the GOP was in power yet all of these programs contradict the Republican philosophy. What will you do to eliminate the unconstitutional programs that diminish civil liberties that were enacted by Democrats? Specifically, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Income Tax? -- Ron Paul asked on July 29, 2010 at 8:00 pm Vote: 13 5 Overall Score 8 Report This Question
As far as I am concerned Republicans have been stepping back from their libertarian roots since Nixon, and even more during Reagan. The classic principles of Republicanism like free-market, laissez faire, and low taxes seem to be fading away. Republicans seem to have grown fonder of foreign intervention, like Nixon and Reagan. For example, under Reagan, America chose to invade Granada. You might wonder why would we need to invade a tiny country like Granada?Their biggest export is nutmeg. Reagan was quoted as saying, "We don't need Granada's nutmeg, we can get perfectly good nutmeg from Africa..." So why did the Reagan agree to invade Granada? Some have concluded it was to serve notice to the people of Latin America and the Caribbean that... -- John Crowley asked on July 29, 2010 at 3:42 pm Vote: 5 3 Overall Score 2 Report This Question	What is the Republican party going to do to increase the discussion of the unintended consequences of foreign intervention. There was a term introduced by the CIA called blowback, and it means unforeseen consequences that come with actions. For example when the British and Americans joined forces to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Iran Mohammed Mosaddeq we saw blowback from this action, when the people rose up against the Sha in 1979 and they took hostages. This was no coincidence that they were angry, it was a result of our intervention in their country. What is the Republican party going to do to address blowback, so we can protect our brave soldiers and fragile experiments with democracy in the Middle East? -- John Crowley asked on July 29, 2010 at 3:24 pm Vote: 13 2 Overall Score 11 Report This Question	The Republican party has been seen by many Americans as trying to take away civil liberties. Do you believe civil liberties are currently being well protected or being eroded away? What can we do about the Republican party's reputation on this issue? -- Shannon O'Brien asked on July 29, 2010 at 5:54 am Vote: 2 1 Overall Score 1 Report This Question
As a Party who helped create and pass bailout legislation inevitably costing tax payers and their families trillions of dollars, to the opposition of the majority of their constituents, it is hard to decipher if there is a Republican position on the role of government in todays financial markets? Do we still believe that markets helped reign in the period of prosperity in the 1980's as the Austrian School does or do we believe that central planning and government intervention creates wealth as defined by Keynesian economists. -- Ben Scholtz asked on July 29, 2010 at 12:10 pm Vote: 8 1 Overall Score 7 Report This Question	With all that is known that the Federal Reserve being far from federal or a reserve, and judging by the way that it harms our country's economy rather than stabilizing it, what will you do to support the abolishing of the Federal Reserve in America? -- I. M. asked on July 29, 2010 at 5:27 pm Vote: 28 8 Overall Score 20 Report This Question	Good day and thank you for considering my question. Are you as a party of "we-the-people" courageous enough to bring to the attention to the 300 million Americans the essential fact that we have a private bank which has grown up around us, as Thomas Jefferson had warned us, now leaving our children homeless; and, that this FED (A PRIVATE BANK) that controls us is not accountable to any of us and that it is totally unnecessary to borrow money from them! Are you going to return to our Constitution, and the "credit-money" creation it gives us? Are you going to level with the people that either the FED will end or we-the-people will? If you are not willing to do this, and guide us in the direction of truth, I shall forever remain detached... -- Ronald Carlson asked on July 29, 2010 at 6:25 pm Vote: 11 8 Overall Score 3 Report This Question
When Washington talks about saving the tax payers money and remedying our increasing debt, very little is said about the billions of dollars of foreign aid being spent around the world. While many of our men and women in the military can't get a timely response to services promised to them because of underfunding why are we sending aid to other countries to deal with their problems? Shouldn't there be a priority from the Republican Party to take care of American's first? -- Ben Scholtz asked on July 29, 2010 at 12:02 pm Vote: 4 1 Overall Score 3 Report This Question	Can you briefly compare and contrast your views on privately owned central banks with the views of President Andrew Jackson, President John F. Kennedy, and Congressman Ron Paul? -- Christopher Sullivan asked on July 29, 2010 at 8:32 pm Vote: 18 7 Overall Score 11 Report This Question	In addition to our departure from our constitutional freedoms and liberties, the GOP has helped lead us away from economic freedom and liberty through mechanisms like incentive packages, taxes, monetary policy that is based on vapor instead of something tangible, big public works programs, and many others. What is your plan to restore our economic freedom and scale the federal government back to the constitutionally supported levels? -- David Bruce asked on July 29, 2010 at 12:05 pm Vote: 10 0 Overall Score 10 Report This Question
As RNC chairman, are you going to renounce or embrace an inevitable tax revolt by many American citizens which is likely to arise during your reign as the RNC Chairman? -- STEPHEN WASHINGTON asked on July 29, 2010 at 2:19 pm Vote: 10 4 Overall Score 6 Report This Question	It is well known that the Iraq War is causing us to spend billions of dollars a year and adding to our sour relationship with the Middle East. The goal of this war is supposedly accomplished, and many of our troops are perishing. What would your vision for the Iraq War be and what, if any, exit strategy would you suggest? -- I. M. asked on July 29, 2010 at 5:29 pm Vote: 2 3 Overall Score -1 Report This Question	What will you do as chairman to encourage Republicans in offices of all 50 states to restore the balance of state and federal power in our republic to be as the founders expressed in 10th Amendment of the Constitution? Remember that the 10th Amendment states that the powers not enumerated for the federal government by the Constitution, and which are not prohibited to the states, are reserved for the states or the people. -- Eric Roth asked on July 29, 2010 at 7:09 pm Vote: 6 1 Overall Score 5 Report This Question