What party are you?

[Willoughby]

What is so entertaining, if I may ask?

Thats what i want to know. What is it about the dems that makes them communist. If some specific examples are brought up i will admit i'm wrong..

 

[FallingPianos]

Ah, Spanish, Mexicans, they all look a like to me. But who is it they whupped? That's what I'm talking about. And don't think I don't notice that little...thing.

what are you taking about? most mexicans are of native decent, not spanish.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Yes and they say you have to give up your hard earned money to support everyone else that doesn’t have as much as you do. Raising taxes and giving 75% of your paycheck to public works for more new and better social programs..sigh
Don’t we have enough social programs?
I do not want a communistic system of government. Democrats just love to claim they represent working people and are against the ongoing massive upward flow of money into the hands of the richest people of society.
what a crock... Kennedy is he rich and powerful? How about Gore? Kerry? You think anyone of these rich guys would give up most of what they have for their neighbor………ha ha….they just want YOU to do it.

Republicans party of the rich?... CNN says.... both have money.

If you are paying in 75% of your income in taxes then you need to fire your accountant. No one is asking anyone to give up most of what they have. Inferring that a vote for Democrats is a vote for communism is about as reasoned and intelligent as claiming that a vote for Republicans is a vote for Nazis.

 

[Latisha1903]

Independent

 

[Loxd4]

I am a socialist....canada socialist seems a lot better then U.S.

 

[Euro_wisdom]

I picked "other". In the French political system, I would labelize myself as centrist-right, which would approximately correspond to democrat in America.

 

[Donkey1499]

I'm an Independent because no party fits my political agenda. One could also quote ol' Treebeard as saying, 'I'm on no one's side because no one's on my side.' And that's how I feel. All politicians are crooked, ALL of them. Except, that I try to vote for who closely resembles my 'policies', and I have yet to find someone. If I could get a piece of land, say 200+ acres, then I'd run my own country that was completely seperate from everything. I'd have my own laws, my own morals. And I'd pretty much do what I wanted. I'd rule it, and all illegal immigrants would be shot on site. No if's and's or but's. But I'm a crazy son-of-a-bitch anyways.

 

[Navy Pride]

For some reason I thought you were a bleeding heart republican.

Never heard that terminology but there is no question I lean toward the Republican party because their values are closer to mine.......I could never belong to a party that was pro abortion and gay marriage.......

 

[Navy Pride]

I picked "other". In the French political system, I would labelize myself as centrist-right, which would approximately correspond to democrat in America.

If your a centrist then you would probably be classified as a moderate in this country and although democrats like to portray themselves as moderates few are........

 

[Navy Pride]

well, the fact of the matter is there aren't many moderates in either party, because as centrism and party affiliation have a negative coorilation. The closer you get to the center, the less likely you are to neatly define yourself as a republican or a democrat, and instead you just vote for whoever best suits you.

To see how extreme a party is, you just have to look at the candidates they nominate. For example, here in Iowa the republicans nominated Jim Nussle for governor (you'd like him). He's pretty far right wing, at least as far as I can tell (he's one of those party sycophants). He got nominated because the people here who identify as republicans are pretty far right wing, while if more moderates identified as republicans more moderates would've shown up at the primary, and there'd be a more moderate candidate.
And it's the exact same with the democrats, if more moderates identified themselves as democrats, the nominee back when Vilsack was nominated would've been a moderate instead of so

meone as far left as he is.

So don't go misrepresenting things, pretending that the republican party is the party of moderates, because it's a flat out lie. The parties institutionally set things up to silence moderate voices, and that is both parties.

There is just one thing wrong with your theory...Since democrats far outnumber republicans in this country in order to win elections the republicans need the moderate vote ..........

I don't know how many moderates there are in teh republican party but I believe moderates vote republican more the democrat at the national level........One of the main reasons for that is moderates can not get nominated for president as a democrat is because the democratic party is held hostage by the far left..........(See Gore and Kerry)

I have no clue about your local politics.........

 

[jamesrage]

Vote what party your in tell us why you are in that particular party.


I'm in the Labour party of America as secretary, you'll find that most of what I post is against the labour platform in england, well, thats because that, in America, we like to call ourselves democratic-capitalists or conservative-centrists. In reality, I agree with the english labour party on almost all issues, its just sometimes, I like to argue on the side I don't agree with (It builds debateing skills) that and Its the few issues that I don't agree with the labour party on that I talk about.

Just me!

Whats your reasons for being in your party?

I am registered as a republican.I used to be one those people who viewed democrats as liberals republicans as conservatives.Over time I realized that a "R" next to a politician's name does not equal conservative and that republicans can screw you just as bad as the democrats can.I no longer just vote for republicans I also vote for democrats and independants.

I also come to the realization that politics is nothing more than a dirty and sometimes hypocritical game.Over 15, 20 years ago the same politicians who told Ruth Ginsburg she should not say anything about what her political beliefs are not badgering the hell out of judicial nominations,the same people who over 15 years ago who stated that you can support the troops but not the president have changed their tune.

 

[Navy Pride]

No, I think that when it comes to general elections you're completely right, in the absence of a centrist candidate, people in the middle will choose the person on the right before the person on the left.
That doesn't mean that the republicans is a party of moderates, it means the republican party is the party of the less repulsive extremists. In the absence of someone who will legitimately do good things, people will prefer those in favor of upholding the status quo over the one who wants to **** things up worse.

But neither party is the party of moderates, since both parties decided that they don't give a **** about moderates.

I personally think there are more moderates in the Republican Party but I think you will find that most moderates are Independents and Libertarians who end up voting republican becasue they can never vote for a Kerry or a Gore............

 

[Comrade Brian]

If your a centrist then you would probably be classified as a moderate in this country and although democrats like to portray themselves as moderates few are........

France is considered to be more 'leftist' than is the US, so a moderate/centrist in France may be considered a Democrat in the US, or one of close ideology.

 

[Navy Pride]

I agree with that for the most part, I don't agree that MOST moderates vote republican, but definately quite more than vote democrat. The problem is that the republican party has mostly forgotten about conservatism (that is a truly conservative view on government), which is what initially endeared the republican party to moderates.
Moderates want to be left alone, but are willing to make reasonable concessions to keep things running and to keep themselves and their communities nice and safe. This is what the republican party USED to stand for. Through it's increased peddling to the religious right (who themselves are powerful through being disliked less than the hardcore secularists), and in making that the cornerstone of their domestic policy, at least publicly (supporting economic views that people who dislike their social plans less than the liberal ones will be left saying "Alright, I'll take your word for it"), they've forgotten about keeping government for the most part out of our lives and keeping our neighborhoods nice and safe. And thus why the republicans are genericly quite a bit less popular than the democrats.

Yeah, by and large people don't like the idea of gay marriage or abortion. By and large people think there should be some restrictions on abortion. By and large people don't like the idea of pornography on network television, or rich hollywood folk who don't do any real work telling them how to live. But this does not mean they believe that the gays are subverting society, or that women having abortion should be jailed, or that we should only have "7th Heaven" reruns on, or whatever. And that's the problem with the republicans, the extremists have them by the balls, and by this point most of the republicans holding office now are extremists themselves, and thus they will be punished.

I was a registered republican for 3 years, I led a recruitment team.

Registered Democrats outnumber Registered Republicans by a huge margin in this country........If Republicans did not get the moderate vote they could never win a national election...

 

[Scarecrow Akhbar]

Because the Republicans won't seek the American vote, they have to chase the moderate (aka liberal) vote, and hence they merge indistinguishably in with the Democrats on almost all policy matters.

 

[taxedout]

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies." ----Carroll Quigley

 

[Gibberish]

I'm a registered democrat but I have voted for republicans. Who ever I think can do that job best gets my vote.

 

[LeftyHenry]

Cpusa!!!!!!