So that when the Revolution comes we know which group to form a temporary alliance with in order to crush the other before turning on them.
Really, you’d know these things if you showed up at the meetings.
I think this thread shows that if we could just set the stereotypes aside we might be able to progress a bit. Why do the loud fringes get so much attention?
I’m a moderate/liberal but…
I favor workfare not welfare. If you need help great. If you’re physically and mentally able to contribute you should be doing so.
I’m pro choice but I think even a potential life deserves some consideration so I favor education about, and funding for, viable alternatives. I’d accept a ban on late term abortions with some exceptions.
I support the right to own weapons.
I favor smaller government and fewer government programs but I favor some form o UHC. If we could do it through regulations of private companies great.
I don’t think a tax level over 25% should exist. Preferably less. and Oh yeah , I was just to the right of Jackson on the test. 18 I think, but didn’t like some of the questions.
Yeah, that’s exactly why these tests suck. “Is spanking a necessary part of discipline,” “do you like abstract art better than realistic,” “is the only responsibility of corporations to deliver a profit to shareholders,” etc. Most people have nuanced positions when it comes to these type of questions.
Which Laura? Bush, Ingraham, or Schlessinger? Your answer could be very telling 
I got a 15 on that stupid test. That means I’m Bill Clinton! Now where’s my intern?
Seriously “Who do you trust more, team owners or pro athletes?” I don’t even know what that means. Why is trust an issue here?
While I support abortion rights, the business makes me queasy. I think you’re killing something, “person” or not.
I don’t have a problem with law-abiding people owning guns. I might like one myself.
I think Nukes are fine though we’ll probably need state investment to make them economically feasable, at least at first.
Free markets and free trade create prosperous societies. Command economies don’t work. But I do think there’s a role for the state in helping people harmed by the shock of transition.
I’m a conservative, but . . .
While I want a simplified tax code, I don’t need it to be a flat tax. As long as an increase in pre-tax income yields an increase in post-tax income, people still have an incentive to be productive.
I believe that if your employees are interested in a union, then you are probably not paying them enough.
If you have to hire illegal immigrants because Americans won’t do the work, then you need to either (1) move the work overseas, or (2) offer decent pay and working conditions.
If you can look at ultrasound pictures and foetus-in-a-jar without flinching, then you should have the right to an abortion on demand, up to and including the 18th y . . . I mean the 9th month.
Marriage is not about gender. It is about power-of-attorney and inheritance. If gays want to marry, let them.
If everyone involved is a consenting adult, then I have no problem with polygamy.
Science classes should teach evolution. If you want kids to learn about Genesis, then they should also learn about Uranus, Ymir, Brahma, Pan-ku, Izanagi, and Raven.
I believe that we should legalize drugs. Also, prostitution. That way, the junkies will be able to support themselves until they O.D.
I’m a moderate:
I believe that pacifism has no moral justification what-so-ever.
I believe many conservatives put way too much faith in the free market.
I believe a lot of research in the “social sciences” to be politically motivated crap. That this is then used to shape public policy is a travesty.
I got a 16 on the test, positioning me (as usual on such polls) a tad left of center. So, I’m a liberal(ish) but…
-I think political correctness has gone waaaaaaaaay too far; there’s a difference in taking legitimate offense at something and thinking that somebody who offends you should be at least censured if not censored
-I lost major respect for Bill Clinton when he lied about sex with Monica Lewinsky (it’s not the fact he had an extramarital affair, which I think is hardly admirable but ultimately his business and with no bearing on his leadership, and if he’d said on television words to the effect of “This line of questioning is inappropriate, irrelevant to my presidency or to Whitewater, is nothing but partisan harassment and willful embarrassment of me and my family at the expense of embarrassing the entire nation in the international community over what is nothing more historically significant than gossip, and I will stand in contempt of court before I will answer anymore questions about my private life that have absolutely nothing to do with politics, financial ethics, or whatever the hell else this investigation is ostensibly about”, then I’d have lost no respect for him whatever and I don’t think anybody else would have on either side of the spectrum, but the fact he deliberately went on television and lied is inexcusable.)
-I think Ann Coulter has consorted with the devil and sent her spirit out upon the land to lead terrorist cells and should be allowed to be tried, convicted, and burned at the stake if found guilty and that the use of spectral evidence by the prosecution should be allowed at her trial, and that in honor of party fairness we will deliver a non-elected liberal of equal stature (Sean Penn perhaps, or Rosie O’Donnell) to Republican HQs upon conviction of Goody Coulter.
Y’know, I could almost get behind this…
I’m stealing this line for future use.
I’m a libertarian, but not a deregulation and privatization fanatic.
I’m a conservative, but…
Gays are people too, and deserving of every right and privelege under the law that everyone else gets. Yes, that includes something resembling marriage.
I knew President Bush’s War was going to be a fiasco from the beginning.
Abortions are going to happen, so legalise them for up to the 1st trimester.
The Oil Standard of energy has got to go, and the quicker the better.
Clean Air and Water are worth fighting for, and writing lengthy regulations for; it’s everyone’s Environment.
SUV’s are okay for people who use them to work for a living (heavy trucks for farmers and contractors, and such) but Soccer Mom’s and Suburbanites are just driving substiue penises/conspicuous wealth status symbols.
Now that Heller has affirmed the individual rights interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, free UZIs for everyone!
Just kidding; seriously, there are some things (laws and regs.) that can be done to reduce the flow of illicit arms to criminals.
I don’t care if AGW is real or not; thousands (tens of thousands?) of tons of automobile-produced CO emmissions per year ain’t right.
I got a 13, but it seemed to be biased towards conservative ideas of what liberal ideas are.
I’m a liberal (although I like to tell people I’m a “radical moderate”), but…
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I support limiting welfare to a transitional period to help people get back on their feet
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I agreed with the majority opinion in Heller. I think there’s an implied right to non-governmental ownership of guns, whether there’s an established militia or not.
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I think illegal immigrants should not be legally allowed to work here, but that the punishment should be levied on the companies that hire them. The flip side is that I think it should be easier and cheaper to immigrate legally, so as to dissolve business’ exploitative use of immigrants who want to make a better life for themselves.
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I’m for nuclear power over coal, but solar/biomass/wind/hydro over nuclear. But let’s do what we need to do to transition to cleaner energy.
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I think too many people vote. I’m for some kind of test of political knowledge before you can vote. My boss disagrees with everything McCain stands for, but she’s voting for him because A) she’s a Republican (though her opinions are generally liberal, her husband is in the military) and B) she thinks bald men are “cute”.
Please tell me you’re making that up.
I wish I was. To be fair, she may have been kidding about voting for him because of the baldness. She is not kidding about voting for him despite disagreeing with his entire platform.
I’m a liberal, but I am not 100 per cent opposed to the death penalty. I also eat red meat, and occasionally wear seersucker.
I’m a liberal/libertarian AND…
I don’t believe the government has any damned business in our bedrooms, and should neither condone nor condemn Gay marriage, and definitely shouldn’t prevent it, or use it as a wedge to rally bigots to evil.
I believe folks who believe removing the prohibition to drilling for oil in currently protected areas today will generate even a single barrel of oil in less than 10 years are willfully ignorant, and those believe the approximate 1 percent increase in aggregate world output these future sites generate will reduce the price of gas at the pump are fools.
I’m okay with undocumented folks, who literally risk their lives to come to this great country just to find a job, any job, so they can support their families, and who help to keep this country functioning, staying here. They should also be provided the shortest path to citizenship possible; none of this back of the line crap and red-tape producing mumbo-jumbo that seems designed to discourage legal immigration.
The thought of a woman having an abortion makes me sick, but I believe it should be solely her choice to make.
I’m for nuclear power, as I believe its use will spur us to further experimentation, likely resulting in less dangerous, yet more efficient fuel sources than the current nuclear model.
I believe religion is a crutch that furthers global ignorance and impedes humanity’s potential.
I believe drugs should be legalized, all of them, controlled and distributed via federal protocol…and taxed up the wazoo like cigarettes. Use the millions per year currently spent on the stupid and futile war on drugs for substance and drug education programs and comprehensive medical needs care.
I believe parents should have the right to home-school their children, but said children should have to pass an assessment exam at the end of each school semester as a requisite to continuing to be schooled from home.
I believe every citizen should have the right to own a gun for protection or hunting, but this should be limited to manual pistols, rifles and shotguns. Automatic weapons should remain illegal to own unless irreversibly disabled. Hollow-points and other armor-piercing or explosive munitions should also be unavailable to the public.
I’m a liberal, but…
The Green Movement can go suck a bag of dicks: build some nuclear reactors and the Saudis can go back to pestering goats
The only countries that will be seriously affected by global warming are either so fucked that they can’t feed themselves anyway, or a few thousand people in a handful of vanity states in the Pacific. The rest of the world will adjust just fine.
I support the death penalty, provided that the justice system that precedes it is as watertight as humanly possible. I’d alo be seriously willing to consider corporal punishment for certain property offences as an alternative to costly jail time. A form of Anglo-Saxon tort law, where criminal offences are treated as crimes against individuals - and redressed according - is worth considering.
I am not a racist, however I am a culturist: Western civilisation may not be perfect, but at least it has the guts to be both self-critical and self-correcting. It’s certainly the best thing history has yet offered, whereas some cultures in some regions of the world would have been piss-poor in the 9th Century, and are now so wretched as to be pretty much worthless. Islam pretty much falls under that heading, despite attempts to spin it as peaceful and just.
Giving aid to Africa to alleviate poverty and famine is just enabling its self-destructive behaviour: either the aid comes with some stout strings attached regarding the governments that oversee that spending - and yes, there will be a quid pro quo attached to that help in terms of access to resources - or cut all help, seal the borders, and look in on a couple of hundred years to see if they’d like to join civilisation yet.
aaarrrgghhhhhh!! A conservative friend of mine and I were talking about party loyalty. We confessed that once you choose a party you’re more inclined to forgive their faults and find fault with the opposing party. We even considered starting a new party.
The “do your fucking job party” in which we didn’t care which position you held as long as you were honest and tried to actually get something done.
If she can’t stand voting for the other party then perhaps she would consider not voting being truer to her conscience.
Not to argue with you as this is simply your opinion, but you’re conflating culture with religion here, which weakens your thesis. You could replace the word Islam with Christianity and your statement would be just as valid.
I need to preface this a bit…
You know that saying, “If a man is not a socialist at fifteen he has no heart, and if he is still a socialist at 30 he has no brain”? Yeah, well as a conservative I find that really smug and condescending to intelligent people on the left, however I am boring enough myself to have pretty much followed the beaten path from teenage leftism to 30-something conservatism. In my late twenties, I used to describe myself as a conservative with “islands” of left-leaning ideals in my mindset. It took a read of Chris Patten’s The Last Governor to make me realise that this was not so, or to make me realise that the left does not have a monopoly on humanity and decency. You can be a conservative without being Mr Burns. Or, you can be “conservative AND” rather than “conservative BUT”. I’d be interested to hear from folks on the left who feel the same way in reverse.
So, I am a conservative AND:
I support gay rights
I am conflicted over guns
I am conflicted over abortion (support it completely in some cases though, but fewer than before)
I think multiculturalism is a good thing
I think humanitarian (in addition to skilled) immigration programmes are a good thing
I don’t believe my pimply white arse makes me a racial superman
I’d happily set fire to the 10 commandments on the Alabama courthouse wall.
I’m an atheist/agnostic