Posted on 07/29/2006 7:13:13 PM PDT by darkangel82
Don't call me moderate, I'm a centrist By Mark Preston
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A word of advice if you speak to leaders of the Republican Main Street Partnership. Do not use the word moderate when talking about the organization's politics.
Members prefer being described as centrists, because the moderate tag conjures up thoughts of abortion and gay rights. And Main Street does not take a position on either of these issues.
Instead, the group of over 60 governors, representatives and senators advocates reducing the deficit, cutting taxes, focusing on education as well as environmentally friendly measures. The organization released its "Promise for America" agenda yesterday.
The battle of ideas within the Republican Party has not always been easy for Main Street members, who sometimes find themselves at odds with their own leadership. The latest disagreement was over President Bush's veto of stem cell legislation.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Virginia), who serves as president of the organization, called it "a bad issue to make your first veto" in a recent meeting with a small group of political reporters. But Davis, a former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, was very careful not to criticize Bush or Congressional Republican leaders, who are now pushing socially conservative measures under the "American Values Agenda," banner.
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Actually, I believe Rush has destroyed the term "moderate" as just a cover for the same ol' liberal ....
"And Davis said if the GOP wants to maintain control of Congress this year and the White House after 2008, it needs to embrace a big tent philosophy.
"If you want to be a national party, be competitive in all regions, you need to be tolerant," Davis said."
I totally agree with this. The rep party must be big tent, or it will have no tent. National elections will increasingly be won by those who appeal to many, not try to exclude the many.
...the group of over 60 governors, representatives and senators advocates .... environmentally friendly measures.
Oh Goody. You're against peeing in the swimming pool. That'll get ya a lot of votes.
~~ spineless wussy mocking OFF ~~
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
Those who straddle fence soon lose balls.
Are you sure about that?
"Don't call us ANYthing! We have no opinions - no, wait, we MIGHT have opinions! Yes, we DEFINITELY MIGHT have some opinions! We just don't want to look wishy-washy - or maybe wishy-washy is what we should go for! Oh - we don't know!!!"
MUGWUMPS
They aren't sure, that's why they call themselves "moderates."
Revelation 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
"I will choose freewill"
I call them cheap liberals.
They aren't cheap, they cost us all a lot of money.
Roadkill.
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