I'm not hugely impressed with any kind of political moderate.
That said, I kinda think the person who wrote this article, and many other folks in the GOP, are conflating 'moderate' with 'sensible', to their own detriment.
I'd just rather know where politicians stand. *shrug* Not that people should agree with their party 100% or anything, but I don't think it's realistically possible to be right in the middle. I guess I respect a politician more if he/she's not trying to play to both sides.
Not that I care whether the GOP crashes and burns, but constructively, I think they need to adopt new, sensible positions on the issues that resonate more with the country as it is now, and not as it was fifty years ago. But that's not being 'moderate', that's having common sense.
I know that a lot, maybe even most, politicians' moderateness amounts largely to trying to play to both sides and be politically safe, but there is also such a thing as actually having honest, legitimate opinions that are not completely on either side. Fiscal policy is pretty much all moderation, anyway, because few people want either Communism or complete deregulation of everything; there's just a large range between those extremes. For (another) example, I believe there are people who truly believe that abortion should be legal in some cases, but not in all. There are also some people, especially younger Republicans, who are plenty conservative on fiscal policy but who also support gay marriage, which can be construed as being politically moderate, even if that's only when you "average" their positions, so to speak.
I think they need to adopt new, sensible positions on the issues that resonate more with the country as it is now, and not as it was fifty years ago. But that's not being 'moderate', that's having common sense.It is
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(By the way, I don't think I'm very moderate, except in the way that everyone thinks they're moderate in the sense of "reasonable" in the sense of "right." I'm plenty liberal, especially socially.)
That said, I kinda think the person who wrote this article, and many other folks in the GOP, are conflating 'moderate' with 'sensible', to their own detriment.
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Not that I care whether the GOP crashes and burns, but constructively, I think they need to adopt new, sensible positions on the issues that resonate more with the country as it is now, and not as it was fifty years ago. But that's not being 'moderate', that's having common sense.
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I think they need to adopt new, sensible positions on the issues that resonate more with the country as it is now, and not as it was fifty years ago. But that's not being 'moderate', that's having common sense.It is ( ... )
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