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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (3067)	10/18/2000 5:41:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

His platform and Texas record are not very right wing. Maybe we have a different interpitation of "right wing". Right wing to me would be equivilent to a very extreme unyielding conservative view. Then again conservative has so many different meanings as well (and so does liberal) that (particularly when we get to the more extreme views) it would be more useful if there were different terms for all the different "flavors" of conservative or liberal thought. The only idea Bush has pushed that might be considered extreme is having part of the social security fund go in to private accounts. This strikes me as a very good idea (if you have to have social security at all), but it's not enough by itself to make calling Bush "right-wing" accurate. His tax cut still leaves top tax rates higher then they where at their lowest point during the Reagan administartion, so that's not too "right-wing". I can't think of any of his policies or any part of his record that is really right wing. The policies seem to range from "moderate" to "conservative", with maybe a few "strongly conservative" (like perhaps the SS changes), but nothing is really "right wing". Tim