The Moderate Republican

We are in a dispicable state when an eagle's egg has more rights that an unborn child. You are murderers. You've erased a whole generation. How many Edisons or Michaelangelos have we killed just for the sake of convenience? We have killed more unborn babies than all the casualties we've had in every war we have been in. Do you even have consciences?

I am not surprised by the poll.

I am surprised by the comment that considers approx 40% of americans to be from a different cultural plane or geopgraphy from democrats.

The DNC knows better but the whole class warfare thing is shot if they acknowledge that republicans are just regular people.

Kerry refers to the top 2% often in his speeches. Must be pretty tight to jam 100+ million people in such a tight little container. We are all doing better than I thought with job creation!

In this election I voted (via early voting and only once) for the lesser of two evils, Bush. I had hoped the Dems. would come up with a better choice, but no cigar. Kerry is a nightmare, and the liberal press is absolutely vial. So, once again I have to overlook the anti choice position of our current Pres. and vote for him.

Here's hoping for a moderate in 2008!

Thanks.

Alex said ...

"I think most Republicans have one thing in common. Their financial or geographic situations let them operate outside of mainstream culture and isolate them from many of the real-world problems."

If that's what the DNC thinks, it's no wonder they haven't been winning elections lately.

Over the last three generations, my family and the 10,000 or so others like it in the town where I was raised,

help build this country's roads, schools and churches; helped grow its food; and helped fight our wars.

You can rest easy this year though Alex, at least as far as my family's concerned - they're not too keen on this president.

>>I think that we have one or two Democrats here who are Democrats first and Americans second.

I think your statement is more true for Republicans than it is for me. There are many Republicans who would rather vote for Bush given his disasterous record than give a new guy a chance.

You talk about moving our country forward when the leadership of the Republican party (President is automaticially the head of the party) installs guys who spend thousands of dollars to cover the breast of a statue, who refuse Stem Cell Research and have ruined our reputation and credibility all over the world to pre WWII days. They've run the White House like Enron.

Had I lived in New York I would have voted for Giuliani, had I lived in California I would have voted for Schwarzenegger and finally I would have voted for McCain in the General in 2000 but I ended up not voting at all.

Alex wrote: "I think ..."

I think that we have one or two Democrats here who are Democrats first and Americans second.

Does it really matter which party moves this country forward?

The goal is to move it forward.

None of us are getting any younger, and if we're going to leave this country in better shape than we found it,

we all better get moving.

And then there's this:
Leftout: A Haven for Progessive Pro-Lifers

http://prolife.liberals.com/

This particular site is retiring, but a new one is in the works, apparently:

The new site (working title: "21st Century Prolifers", but that is subject to change) will focus on a particular philosophy rather than left-right labels. It is still most likely to appeal to liberals, progressives, and some libertarians, but what you call yourself is entirely beside the point. If you desire a return to the moral codes and policies of the 1950s, the new project is not for you. If, however, you:

believe that abortion is first and foremost an issue of human rights, not religious orthodoxy or sexual morality;
embrace the progress made over the last few decades toward gender and racial equality, religious pluralism, and acceptance of gays and lesbians;
believe that the extension of human rights to human beings before their birth is logically consistent with the above;
share a radical vision of feminism that seeks to remake woman-, child-, and parent-unfriendly social structures instead of insisting that women need abortion in order to fit in;
have had it with anti-abortion advocates whose concern for life seemingly "begins at conception and ends at birth";
... then you just might feel at home.
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Darn humans--always refusing to fit into neat little categories. ;-)

Well, if a majority of Republicans are so pro-choice (which I doubt) why do they elect Republicans that will install Supreme Court justices would make abortion illegal for years and years to come?

I think what's more likely is that many Republicans don't care either way about abortion rights and just go along Pro-Life stance to appease the Christian Right.

I think most Republicans have one thing in common. Their financial or geographic situations let them operate outside of mainstream culture and isolate them from many of the real-world problems.

For many, I think abortion is not an issue because the majority can just go out of the country to get one if it ever comes to that. The same thing goes for social programs, after school programs and veterans benefits.

And the stance on Stem Cell Research by the Republican Party is a disaster.

Republicans that are *gasp* not marching in lock-step with the pro-lifers?! Oh dear...FOX News is just going to have to increase their efforts to find polls to skew that message back to the far right...again...
Polling is an inexact science. You can have one poll of Republicans from South Carolina turn up results far differently than a poll of Republicans from Oregon or Connecticut. We should ask at all times where the population of the survey came from, what the specific questions were (a carefully worded question with only certain answers can make it look like the people are choosing the 'right' answer when they really wanted to give an answer that's not allowed on the survey...)
While it's nice to see a poll showing that Republicans can and might actually be capable of deciding moral questions on their own, I'm going to have to lump this in with all the other surveys as 'questionable' until I see the full data...
Never trust the polls. Just ask Dewey and Truman.

Like I said in a previous comment Dennis,

the next Great American Century is yours to launch because I'm still not convinced that Democrats can produce a leader capable of spanning the current cultural and political divide.

So for the sake of us all, I wish you only stunning successes in all your efforts.