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If you want a thoughtful response to national issues rather than party dogma, look to moderate Dems and moderate Reps. BOTH are dying breeds. Heck, how about interbreeding among the lot to preserve the country faster?
When people finally accept there is NO real difference between the two parties, then the republic has a chance. Why should any of the clowns in the House or the Senate change their ways; they've got it made the way it is.
Its almost impossible to be perceived as a moderate when you are surrounded by a political system that has gone so far left its the closest thing this country has ever seen to pure socialism.
The moderates like myself on social issues are instantly marginalized by the attacks from the left for being too far right. You have to wonder.
My concern isn't for preserving an endangered species. It's that half of these "advocates" are really just showboaters. For every conservationist trying to capture-and-release into more viable habitat (much like the efforts here in Dallas with moderate Democrats), you have at least two who just want to yuk it up for the television cameras. "Now, I'm gonna sneak up behind and jam my thumb up his butthole! This'll really piss him orf!"
Bet you ten thousand bux this story will be posted by some dufus Right Wing congressional representative from loosiana as proof of the Socialist Conspiracy to dilute the purity of our patriotic, hetero-rights only,God-fearing, minimum wage nation.
Comments (11)
Who cares?
Posted by cc | February 14, 2012 11:51 AM
If you want a thoughtful response to national issues rather than party dogma, look to moderate Dems and moderate Reps. BOTH are dying breeds. Heck, how about interbreeding among the lot to preserve the country faster?
Posted by Nolo | February 14, 2012 12:53 PM
I love how Sarah Palin is now the wise old voice of the GOP, weighing in on the issues to guide the flock. Priceless.
Posted by Bill McDonald | February 14, 2012 1:01 PM
I wonder if this is the kind of great moderates we should want to save.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-sad-hypocritical-retirement-of-evan-bayh/2011/03/10/AB4MZzY_blog.html
Posted by Eric Morris | February 14, 2012 1:20 PM
When people finally accept there is NO real difference between the two parties, then the republic has a chance. Why should any of the clowns in the House or the Senate change their ways; they've got it made the way it is.
Posted by Mike | February 14, 2012 2:14 PM
What is a Moderate Republican?
Any of the local moderate Republicans are the ones who support all things Portland, TriMet and Metro.
Is that being moderate?
Posted by Ben | February 14, 2012 4:27 PM
Its almost impossible to be perceived as a moderate when you are surrounded by a political system that has gone so far left its the closest thing this country has ever seen to pure socialism.
The moderates like myself on social issues are instantly marginalized by the attacks from the left for being too far right. You have to wonder.
Posted by DB | February 14, 2012 7:28 PM
Ben-- "supporting all things Portland"....that's not being a moderate, that's getting elected in Portland.
Posted by Nolo | February 14, 2012 8:41 PM
Nolo,
It's also mental disease.
Posted by Ben | February 15, 2012 7:28 AM
My concern isn't for preserving an endangered species. It's that half of these "advocates" are really just showboaters. For every conservationist trying to capture-and-release into more viable habitat (much like the efforts here in Dallas with moderate Democrats), you have at least two who just want to yuk it up for the television cameras. "Now, I'm gonna sneak up behind and jam my thumb up his butthole! This'll really piss him orf!"
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | February 15, 2012 8:05 AM
Bet you ten thousand bux this story will be posted by some dufus Right Wing congressional representative from loosiana as proof of the Socialist Conspiracy to dilute the purity of our patriotic, hetero-rights only,God-fearing, minimum wage nation.
Posted by screaming tyranical socialist | February 15, 2012 8:32 AM