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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (12422)	2/17/2006 6:41:46 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541777

I find some specious points, even from my distance. Less advocacy for radical abortion, homosexual marriage, radical environmentalism and a host of cultural issues that special interests insist upon, but are not embraced by the majority of Americans. Fine. I could care less about most of those and they woudln't get my vote one way or another. But is it a coincidence, or is every single special interest a far-left-wing precept? Or is this actually a rather selective list? And, a bugbear of mine, does 'radical environmentalism' mean that this is yet another blinkered cretin who will deny that man-made global warming is becoming a catastrophic reality, right up to the point when Florida becomes a sea? If so, he's lost my vote straight away. I have children and I'd like to see them grow up without the need for gills. More attention to the Midwest and less to Hollywood and the upper-West Side I thought the Midwest was already over-represented in terms of its voting power - relative to economics, anyway, or populace. Never mind the contemptuous dismissal of Hollywood, even I know that's an irrelevant slur: but California is by far the largest economic body in the US, and maybe it hence deserves more weight than, say, Nebraska or North Dakota. Economically he sounds fairly RW, also. A balanced budget and an end to borrowing for programs we cannot afford, both subsidies for left-wing failed programs and right-wing conglomerates. I presume the 'left-wing failed programs' are Medicare and Social Security? Or am I missing something? But a balanced budget is good. Some sort of taxation that is either flat or nearly so Ah, yes, the non-progressive tax. Excellent so long as you earn more than the average. I do, so I'm OK, Jack. Maybe I'm missing the point but I'm startled he's classed as a Democrat. What does he disagree with the Republican platform on?