Stances:
The New Deal: Casanova is in practice a budget hawk, in principle a libertarian.
- A Budget Hawk comes from the same milieu as Robert Taft and the other old-school small-government conservatives who opposed the New Deal because of fears over public spending. They believe that the New Deal as is is an accumulator of debt and goes against the principle of limited government. They may still keep New Deal programs partially or significantly cut back, though.
- A Libertarian has sympathies to the New Right and their economic libertarian principles. The government, in their eyes, is not the solution - it is the problem, one which restricts entrepreneurship. They will support a massive deescalation and privatization of the New Deal.
Civil Rights: Casanova is of course a liberal on this matter, befitting her belief in the fundamental right of individuals.
- A Liberal believes in the end of segregation, but may have either qualms about needing concrete plans for integration or a lack of integration afterwards, or about the enforcement of Civil Rights. They will vote in favor of Civil Rights bills, but may have reservations with poor planning.
The Unions: Casanova is opposed to trade unions "deforming the economy", but she's too libertarian to support a big state against them.
-A Skeptic is someone who opposes the strength and power of the unions and favours, in principle at least, right-to-work legislation. Nevertheless, after the great unpopularity of such policies and the negative effects on the Republican Party at the Congressional level in the 1958 midterms, pragmatists are ultimately reluctant to support such legislation, at least in the short-term and may advocate for more incremental reforms.
Religion and the State: Casanova believes that faith is important to an individual's life, and fully supports religion in society.
- A Civicist while not wishing to remove the separation of church and state still favours the Christian character of the United States. Favouring a civic religious approach, they advocate for a role for religion in public life and are supportive of prayers in schools. They may support a non-denomination amendment that is not restricted solely to Christianity.
The Cold War: Casanova is distressingly consistent in her support of liberty, whether it be at home or abroad.
-A Liberal, or to be more precise a 'Cold War Liberal' are politicians and foreign policy analysts who, despite holding liberal or moderate political sentiments at home, are firmly hawkish on foreign policy seeking to oppose communism on liberal policy grounds as antithetical to freedom and democracy. How far these principles go in propping up authoritarian regimes, remains to be seen.
Cuba: Casanova's view of Cuba is simply that it should be brought back under a fair democracy as soon as possible.
-A Fifth Columnist is horrified by the Cuban Revolution and wishes to affect change in Cuba through covert or otherwise support for rebel elements in Cuba or here in exile. Fifth Columnists believe that removing Castro is imperative for United States security and that a proto- or firmly communist regime across the Straits of Florida - nevertheless they seek to achieve this goal through Cuban exiles and anti-communists rather than American troops on the ground.