Re: [Nolug] Glogs and galleries

Careful - Lieberman is socially left of center, but conservative on
defense; Clinton was more of a moderate or centrist like John Breaux,
but still a dems dem. Zel Miller is an elephant in donkey's clothing,
though.

Brett

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:08:24 -0500, "Tim Kelley"
<entropy@r00tserverz.net> said:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2004 08:09, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, but why be a political loudmouth unless you are an ideo-
> > logue?
>
> What does that have to do with it? One can be very political and yet not
> ideological; ideology is the realm of those who have "figured out the way
> the
> universe works" - politics is for everyone.
>
> > > The democratic party in the US is not very ideologically unified either -
> > > which is most likely why they are not as successful as the (very
> > > ideologically focused) republican party.
> >
> > Idunno 'bout that. While you won't see too many Republicans
> > (except maybe in the northeast) being a volunteer abortion rights
> > activist, there is a spectrum of beliefs on that issue, fetal
> > stem cell research, gay rights, etc. Nancy Reagan, Rudy Giuliani
> > & The Governator are some examples.
>
> Phhpt. One of the goals of ideologues is to reduce the parameters of
> debate
> to absurd levels. I consider most of the "issues" in US politics to be
> non-issues.
>
> > Any "conservative" national Democrats? (Except Zel Miller?)
>
> Plenty. Almost all of them. Clinton, for example, was very
> conservative.
> Lieberman is practically a fascist. See "parameters of debate" above.
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