"I strive to have no strong opinions about anything, and don't want to say anything that might cause somebody to not like me."
Grow a set, nancy.
Then you should consider taking a bath with a toaster.
You seem like a left wing commie whack job.... JUST KIDDING!
If you surf the web looking for polls so you can click the "I Don't Know" button....you might be a "moderate."
Anyone who claims they're a 'moderate' is a liberal too chickens**t to admit it.
I prefer consensus to division and try to accomodate opposing beliefs instead of demonizing them.
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sounds like he'd gladly jump into a hot tub with damn near anyone or anything,, and an awful lot like a choice few here at FR. ;-)
play in the middle of the road, get run over by traffic coming from both ways. Don't be a TWirP!
-PJ
This sounds unequivocally flaming liberal to me..but then, I consider myself a moderate.
any extreme moderates out there?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Two issues immeadiately come to mind:
Abortion, YES or NO. Can't do anything with consensus on that one.
Terrorism. YES, cut my head off (or blow up the plane), or NO don't cut my head off.
Ummm,
make no mistake. You're a liberal. You're not moderate.
Needs a 'barf alert'.
All well and good. But now the question comes back: Am I a moderate? While I suspect I'm still more hawkish than the average Democrat, I'm no longer noticiably outside the Party mainstream I feel. On several social issues I'm not just liberal but flagrantly so, such as (pro-gay marriage, but not on many other issues, such as I am pro legally immigration amnesty and removal of immigration quotas (or at least raising them significantly), - a guest worker program with some path for citizenship for those who work hard and play by the rules and pay taxes, after and only after the federal government can demonstrate that it has secured our borders, and raising quotas for the best and the brightest to come in, against pro-Affirmative Action and reparations because that is a racial spoils system, and inimical to the invocation of Martin Luther King, that we should judge folks by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, or other ersatz and degrading the demeaning criteria, anti- wasting time worrying about ritualistic invocations such as "under God" in the pledge).
Even on abortion, an issue I'd been decided upon since I assumed maturity floating into the pro-life camp for a few years, I find that I'm coming back to a rather strong pro-choice position still of the opinion that while reasonably folks of good conscience can disagree about pre sentience first trimester abortions, third trimester abortions are shocking to the conscience and aborting viable fetuses is very close to the same thing as murder, as a moral matter, where morality and Supreme Court fiat edicts have tragically diverged, both as a legal and moral matter. . I could cherry-pick issues, of course, but by and large I'm not just liberal, I'm very liberal (Carleton skews my perception of course, because even in my most liberal persona I'm on the right side of things, but I think on a national scale I certainly qualify as a hardcore liberal). So where do I get off blogging at TMV? More to the point, I think you are just superficial and confused.
Proof that any nut can write for publication, and anyone can have a website and call themselves whatever they want to. *Rolleyes*
"The Moderate Republican:
If you are a moderate Republican who wants to bring the Party of Lincoln back to its roots, you've come to the right place. I am your host, a 30-something, gay, African American, Republican minister living in Minneapolis, Minnesota."
http://moderaterepublican.blogspot.com/ (In case you want to egg this Moderate on...) ;)