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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:34 PM Original message |
Poll question: Nomenclature - Moderates vs. ________. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Moderate is the confused middle. |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I don't think that's accurate |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. No there are many variations on left and right. |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Thank you. |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 03:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
39. "A moderate DUer is still a liberal." |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 03:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. Does Howard Dean Strike You as Confused? |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 03:54 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Bill Clinton? |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 05:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
41. OK, Bill Clinton Strikes You as a Confused Politician |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 03:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. That's some nice binary thinking there. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 05:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I'm counting three in my calculation. |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 12:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. You said there were only two valid options |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 08:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
23. In every other modern industrial democracy Moderates |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. Extremist here, although my views are on both ends of the spectrum |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 08:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. what if the center has moved far, far to the right? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 04:43 PM Response to Reply #21 |
40. I am told by folks on the left and the right that my views are extreme |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
5. They used to call "moderates" mugwumps. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
6. What would we call a 'moderate' in 1935 Germany? |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Well I guess i don't see things the same as you |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 08:38 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. DLC in Nazi Germany: We could do a BETTER Holocaust and a kinder, gentler |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 12:43 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. McCain: Hitler should have told us this war would be long and hard. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
9. I disagree with "moderate" versus any of those. The conflict with Dems |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. better way to put it: is government a public or corporate servant? |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 02:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Fair enough |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 08:32 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. the DLCers are not as much moderate in ideology as they frame ideology |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 08:36 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. But there are moderates who are not DLCers |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 11:25 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. good. We agree. How they react to reality is the dividing line |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:33 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. I don't know about that |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 03:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. My uncle (a New Deal Dem) has said it for years: |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 08:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. there aint even a labor party in britain. It's like coke without the |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
19. When former Reagan and Nixon admin people agree with the "far left" |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
27. moderate v. strong convictions. |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
28. Moderate: one who lacks the courage to have convictions. |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:35 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. I like your literary reference but your opinion is bullshit |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
29. Good luck, as you see, nonmoderates despise moderates. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
32. I don't believe in the term "Moderate" |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:42 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Moderates are either suckers for the current regime |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:46 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Let me clarify |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:47 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Ah that's a bit clearer - and yeah I'll cop to that |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:52 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Well |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
36. Nothing, it applies to both Dems and Reps. |
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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
38. Why do you have to modify "moderate" at all? |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-26-06 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
42. I'll bite. |
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